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On May 10, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for 2024-2025 that includes, among other changes, a temporary suspension on the use of net operating losses (NOLs) for businesses with California...more
State and local taxes impact almost every taxpayer, and developments in any one jurisdiction can be frequent and sometimes confusing. ln this newsletter edition, we will briefly summarize selected state and local tax (SALT)...more
The IRS recently provided guidance addressing inadvertent terminations of S Corporation (S Corp) status based on existing provisions in corporate documents that remain after a company makes an S Corp election. This can be a...more
What Was At Stake - At issue in a recent, significant tax decision of the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) was whether the Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue could tax an out-of-state shareholder on the gains it derived...more
State and local taxes impact almost every taxpayer, and developments in any one jurisdiction can be frequent and sometimes confusing. In this newsletter edition, we will briefly summarize certain SALT developments in several...more
On January 25, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) released regulations (the “Final Regulations”) finalizing provisions in prior proposed regulations which generally...more
Matt Hunsaker discusses recent North Carolina tax legislation, including phase-out/phase-down of corporate and individual income tax rates, an elective passthrough entity SALT cap workaround, and simplification of the...more
Last fall, the IRS announced, with respect to pass-through entities (LLCs or other entities taxed as partnerships or S corporations), that, if state law allows or requires the entity itself to pay state and local taxes (which...more
On Sept. 15, 2021, the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a proposed tax legislative package (the “W&M proposal”) to the Build Back Better Act reconciliation bill (the “Act”), which...more
On August 25, 2021, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance released guidance (Technical Memorandum, TSB-M-21(1)C, (1)I) addressing the recently enacted optional pass-through entity tax (PTET) that partnerships...more
On June 22, 2021, Kilpatrick Townsend Tax attorneys Lynn Fowler, Heather Preston, Rob Daily, and Jeff Reed participated in a mid-year tax update webinar hosted by the firm. The webinar discussed recent tax issues in the...more
On July 16, 2021, Governor Baker approved a $47.6 billion fiscal 2022 budget, but sent back a provision the Massachusetts Legislature passed creating a workaround for the federal cap on the state and local tax deduction. ...more
On June 22nd, Kilpatrick Townsend Tax attorneys Lynn Fowler, Heather Preston, Rob Daily, and Jeff Reed participated in a mid-year tax update webinar hosted by the firm. The webinar discussed recent tax issues in the federal...more
Not Good- As Mr. Biden settled into the White House, and as the Democrats began planning how to best utilize their slim Congressional majority to enact and pay for their sweeping legislative agenda, the principal concern...more
Tax Gap- In a report released last week, the U.S. Treasury Department explained that the so-called “tax gap” – i.e., the difference between the amount of federal income taxes owed by taxpayers for a taxable year and the...more
In April 2021, New York State enacted legislation providing for a new elective pass-through entity (PTE) tax on partnerships and Subchapter S corporations. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act generally limits an individual’s...more
More — and more rigorous — IRS examinations are coming. The Biden administration is committed to closing the “tax gap” (the difference between taxes owed and taxes actually paid on time). Increased enforcement efforts are...more
On April 19, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law legislation that creates a New York Pass-Through Entity Tax, effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2021. This consequential tax legislation,...more
During the 2021 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly passed key legislation, including conformity to the federal tax law, the elimination of deference to subregulatory interpretations of the Department of...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) imposed a $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes for tax years 2018-2025. While corporations are not subject to the cap, business owners who pay state and...more
If the Democrats Win- Science has not established – at least to my knowledge – any correlation between the pre-election year-end activities of individual business owners, on the one hand, and election outcomes, on the...more
In response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) has taken additional actions intended to provide immediate relief to taxpayers. Delay of Identification and Acquisition...more
The Alabama Legislature was stymied last year over proposals to decouple from or conform with various provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). As a compromise, the Legislature formed a Joint Legislative Task...more
New Jersey recently enacted the “Pass-Through Business Alternative Income Tax Act,” which allows pass-through businesses with at least one member liable for the New Jersey gross income tax to make an election to pay income...more
Choosing the appropriate type of entity is a multifaceted analysis and is necessarily dependent upon a variety of factors, including business objectives, type of business, desire for cash distributions, and ease of obtaining...more