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As discussed in our most recent installment, on July 23, 2024, Senate Bill 571 (the “Amendment”) was signed into law, adding certain private energy facility projects to the purview of the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act which...more
Why did Congress provide bonus credits to a facility or a project that pays its workers “prevailing wages” and hires apprentices? Congress viewed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a way to not only move the United States...more
On July 23, Senate Bill 571 (“SB 571” or the “Amendment”) was signed into law, adding registration requirements and the inclusion of both public and private energy facility projects. The Amendment is effective 90 days from...more
As covered in our prior alerts, the Inflation Reduction Act modified and reinstated existing renewable energy credits, enacted new renewable energy credits, and included a mechanism for certain tax credits to increase by a...more
The Background: The Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") created or enhanced various tax credits for qualifying renewable energy projects. However, a taxpayer loses 80% of otherwise-available IRA credits unless prevailing wage...more
On June 18, 2024, the US Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) issued final regulations (“Final Regulations”) establishing rules for taxpayers intending to satisfy the prevailing wage...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) provides increased tax credit or deduction amounts, in many instances a five-times-multiplier bonus, for taxpayers meeting prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements for certain...more
The Treasury Department (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued proposed regulations on August 29, 2023 for prevailing wage and apprenticeship (“PWA”) requirements applicable to clean energy projects...more
Developers of renewable energy projects generally haven’t concerned themselves with the Davis-Bacon Act, the Great Depression-era federal law that mandates the paying of prevailing wages to laborers on public works projects;...more
As previously discussed in our blog Inflation Reduction Act: Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements, the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”) restructured the tax credit system associated with qualified clean energy projects...more
On November 30, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Notice 2022-61 (the Notice), providing initial guidance on the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements applicable to certain provisions of the...more
Renewable energy developers and contractors have been anticipating the Treasury Department and IRS’s initial guidance on what is required to satisfy the prevailing wage and apprentice requirements under the Inflation...more
On November 30, 2022, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) published initial guidance clarifying certain questions surrounding the new prevailing wage and apprenticeship...more
Publication of Notice 2022-61 starts the 60-day clock until projects that initially commence construction must comply with the new requirements. On November 30, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Notice...more
On November 30, 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department published in the Federal Register its guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) new prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. Taxpayers seeking to qualify for...more
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. Among many other provisions, the IRA contains a new federal 30% tax credit for private construction, alteration or repair of...more
On October 23, the Department of Labor reported that Proimtu Mmi-Nv LLC, a Nevada-based company, agreed to pay $1.9 million in back wages and fringe benefits as the result of a DOL investigation of its compliance with the...more