On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, the New York Legislature reached an agreement with Governor Andrew Cuomo for the fiscal year 2021-2022 state budget. The agreed-upon budget package includes a number of revenue raisers ...more
Over the past several months, there has been much speculation regarding potential changes to corporate and individual tax rates. The infrastructure plan released by the White House on Wednesday, March 31, includes a proposed...more
On Jan. 8, 2021, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued final regulations (Final Regulations) (T.D. 9945) governing the treatment of “carried interests” (also referred...more
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On July 28, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations (T.D. 9905) (the final regulations) concerning the limitation on the deductibility of business interest expense (BIE) under Section...more
9/28/2020
/ Business Taxes ,
CARES Act ,
Income Taxes ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Legitimate Business Interest ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Reform ,
U.S. Treasury
On July 31, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued proposed regulations (REGS-107213-18) (Proposed Regulations) governing the treatment of “carried interests” (also...more
On April 24, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued proposed regulations (REG-106864-18) addressing the manner in which tax-exempt organizations calculate their...more
On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) (the Act) into law, authorizing certain relief to employees and small and midsize businesses pertaining to the COVID-19...more
On Dec. 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations (the new regulations) governing a narrow aspect of rules applicable to withholding on “dividend equivalent payments” made to foreign persons. The new...more
1/2/2020
/ Broker-Dealer ,
Dividend-Equivalent Transactions ,
Dividends ,
Final Rules ,
Foreign Persons ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
New Regulations ,
Popular ,
Qualified Derivatives Dealers (QDDs) ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Section 871(m) ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Withholding Tax
On Oct. 9, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) issued Revenue Ruling 2019-24 concerning the tax consequences of virtual currency hard forks, as well as FAQs on the taxation of virtual currency generally. This...more
12/3/2019
/ Bitcoin ,
Blockchain ,
Capital Gains ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Currency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Filing Requirements ,
Financial Transactions ,
Income Taxes ,
Investment ,
IRS ,
New Guidance ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Tax Liability ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Returns ,
Virtual Currency
On Nov. 4, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) published final debt-equity regulations (the Final Regulations) and an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more
11/18/2019
/ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Bifurcation ,
Controlling Stockholders ,
Debt ,
Debt-Equity ,
Debtor-Creditor ,
Distribution Rules ,
Equity ,
Identity of Interest ,
IRS ,
New Regulations ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Section 385 ,
Stocks ,
Tax Liability ,
Tax Planning ,
U.S. Treasury
Transaction expenses, including fees for legal counsel, accountants, financial advisors, brokers and other third parties, are an ineluctable aspect of mergers and acquisitions. The ability of parties to deduct at least a...more
On Oct. 9, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) providing taxpayers with broad and flexible guidance on the tax...more
10/23/2019
/ Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) ,
Benchmarks ,
Debt Instruments ,
Income Taxes ,
Inter-Bank Offered Rates (IBORs) ,
Interest Rates ,
International Tax Issues ,
IRS ,
Libor ,
Proposed Regulation ,
REMIC ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Secured Overnight Funding Rate (SOFR) ,
Tax Planning ,
U.S. Treasury
On Aug. 14, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) published proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) regarding the classification of “cloud transactions” for...more
10/7/2019
/ Cloud Computing ,
Data Transfers ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Platforms ,
Digital Services ,
Factoring Transactions ,
IaaS ,
IRS ,
PaaS ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
SaaS ,
Software ,
Tax Liability ,
Tax Planning ,
U.S. Treasury
Background On Oct. 31, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations under Section 956 of the Internal Revenue Code that will eliminate the adverse tax consequences when a U.S. parent corporation (i)...more
11/16/2018
/ Collateral ,
Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Dividends ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Lenders ,
Parent Corporation ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Section 956 ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Planning ,
Voting Securities
The recently enacted tax reform act (the Act) significantly altered the U.S. taxation of foreign income. Perhaps most prominently, the Act allows U.S. corporations to fully deduct (and thus not pay tax on) dividends received...more
3/29/2018
/ Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Income Taxes ,
International Tax Issues ,
New Legislation ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration
The tax reform signed into law by President Trump on Dec. 22 (the Tax Act) presents public companies with several accounting and disclosure challenges. Although companies are still evaluating how they will be affected by the...more
1/2/2018
/ Corporate Taxes ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Statements ,
Form 8-K ,
Income Taxes ,
New Legislation ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration