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Congress passes FY 2020 funding bill with tax benefits for energy, health care, and retirement plans

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In a rare display of bipartisanship, after intense last minute negotiations between congressional leadership and the Executive Branch, President Donald Trump signed into law legislation passed last week by Congress to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What's New in Washington - September 2019

Congress returns to D.C. this week for a short three-week sprint to a series of important deadlines on September 30. Chief among them is funding the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 which begins on October 1,...more

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Taxation & Representation - June 2019 #3

TAX TIDBIT - Five Takeaways and a Falsehood: Test Your Knowledge of the Ways and Means Tax Markup - On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee marked up and approved the following four bills, largely along...more

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Back from the Dead: Senate Taskforces Aim to Deliver Tax Extenders from Expiration Purgatory but Some Provisions Could Stay Six...

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The Senate Finance Committee has launched a new effort to consider the fate of dozens of temporary tax provisions (or “extenders”) that have expired in recent years, as well as other provisions slated to expire in 2019 and...more

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Taxation & Representation - May 2019 #3

In This Issue: - Tax Tidbit - Legislative Lowdown - RegWatch - 1111 Constitution Avenue - At a Glance - Brownstein Bookshelf - Regulation Station ...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation - May 2019

In This Issue - - Tax Tidbit - Legislative Lowdown - RegWatch - 1111 Constitution Avenue - 2020 Vision - At a Glance - Brownstein Bookshelf...more

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Much Ado About Extenders

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The April 18 extenders roundtable at the House Ways and Means Committee has been described as a “dog and pony show” given that little came out of the closed-door gathering. Only about a dozen lawmakers showed up to defend...more

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Window On Washington - Vol. 2, Issue 15

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Omnibus Rescissions. The White House is continuing to press forward with pledges to rescind spending from the FY18 Omnibus despite multiple House and Senate Republicans...more

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Continuing Resolution Proposal to Extend Funding for the Federal Government

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Overview - On Jan. 16, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) introduced a continuing resolution (CR), which would fund the federal government until Feb. 16. Congress has...more

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Tax Outlook for 2016

If you only read one thing... - Expect 2016 to be relatively quiet with respect to tax-related legislation; however, much policy activity—in the tax-writing committees, the Treasury Department and on the...more

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The Cheer of the Holidays May Have Arrived in Washington—a Bit Earlier Than Expected

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The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 Passes Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate - Late in the day on December 15, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting...more

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Déjà Vu All Over Again – The Recurring Saga of Expiring Tax Provisions

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If you go by what Yogi Berra says, tax policy and baseball have a lot in common. Just as we head toward the end of the regular season of baseball and hope we make it to play-offs, Congress is doing the same. Having returned...more

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Tax Policy Update

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As in the 9 percent "amusement tax" that the city of Chicago recently extended to online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, triggering a series of lawsuits alleging that the newly expanded tax was illegally...more

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Tax Policy Update

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First it was three years, now it’s three months. The Senate’s attempt to pass a multiyear highway bill ran off the road this week after House Republicans announced they will adjourn one day early for the month-long August...more

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Tax Policy Update

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The amount by which Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said he wanted to reduce, or “haircut,” all of the 50-plus tax provisions known as extenders. Warner accurately predicted that his Senate Finance Committee colleagues wanted to keep...more

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Tax Policy Update

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NUMBER OF THE WEEK: 52 percent. The likelihood that tax reform will happen in 2017 or earlier, according to the tax experts that participated in the Tax Council (TTC) and Ernst & Young (EY) Tax Reform Business Barometer in...more

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2014 May Be the Last Year for Valuable "Tax Extenders"

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Last week, President Obama threatened to veto an agreement between Senate Democrats and House Republicans on a collection of tax breaks known as “tax extenders.” The deal would have been a huge win for manufacturing, because...more

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Tax Policy Issues Prepare for a Rumble on the Gridiron

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The clock is running out on the 113th Congress. While the calendar says we are not quite at the two-minute warning, with a truncated September congressional schedule and the campaign season taking up much of the fall, the...more

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Senate Finance Committee Passes PTC Extension as Part of Tax Extenders

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On April 3, the Senate Finance Committee passed a modified extenders package that includes a two-year extension of the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) under section 45 of the Internal Revenue Code as well as an...more

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Wyden’s Extenders Bill Due March 31 - PTC Advocates Muster for the Fight

Senator Wyden (D-OR), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, stated that he will release his “extenders” bill on March 31 and that the included provisions will be renewed through the end of 2015. Senator Rockefeller...more

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Energy And Environment Update -- February 10, 2014

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In This Issue: Energy and Climate Debate; Congress; Administration; Department of Agriculture; Department of Interior; Environmental Protection Agency; International; States; Sustainability; and Miscellaneous. ...more

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What's in Store For Tax Legislation in 2014

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In the best of times, reforming the nation's tax code is an enormous challenge, and in the mid-term election year of 2014, the chance of passing comprehensive tax reform has evaporated. The tax legislation that will pass the...more

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ML Strategies Weekly Energy And Environment Update – Week Of December 23, 2013

As Congress wrapped up the first session of the 113th Congress, the House and Senate came together to finalize several pieces of legislation, and policymakers prepared the way for changes to come in 2014. After the House...more

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