The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA“), passed by the U.S. House of Representatives (the “House“) on May 22, 2025, is a comprehensive legislative package that seeks to implement sweeping reforms in tax policy,...more
Senator Thom Tillis introduced a bill (called the “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act”) that would impose additional significant taxes on litigation funding investments. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OH) introduced a similar bill...more
On Thursday May 22, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, hereafter the “Bill”). The Bill will now be considered by the U.S. Senate....more
5/27/2025
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Corporate Taxes ,
Employee Benefits ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
New Legislation ,
Proposed Legislation ,
SALT ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the draft tax legislation (the “Revised House Draft Bill”). The Revised House Draft Bill contains certain changes to the original bill that was released on May 12, 2025 by...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee released an updated text of draft tax legislation (the “House Draft Bill”)...more
On January 17, 2024, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) released a bill, the “Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024”...more
On July 26, 2023, Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Ending Tax Breaks for Massive Sovereign Wealth Funds Act (the “bill”), which would deny the benefits of section 892 of the Internal Revenue Code to...more
This blog post summarizes recent federal bills that have been introduced (but not yet passed), proposals by the Biden Administration, and guidance issued by the Internal Revenue Service with respect to the taxation of digital...more
5/2/2023
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Brokers ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) ,
Digital Assets ,
Excise Tax ,
FATCA ,
Green Book ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
IRS ,
New Guidance ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stablecoins ,
Virtual Currency
On August 7, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”). The tax provisions in the bill that was passed vary from the bill that was originally released on July 27, 2022 by Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)...more
On March 28, 2022, the Biden Administration proposed to tax “profits” or “carried” interests as ordinary income and impose self-employment tax on income and gains from these interests for certain partners in investment...more
Introduction and Summary -
On March 28, 2022, the Biden Administration proposed changes to the U.S. international tax rules.
In short, the Biden Administration proposed to:
Enact a 15% minimum “undertaxed profits...more
Yesterday, on December 19, 2021, Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said that he opposes the Build Back Better Act, which effectively prevents its passage. While there are no immediate prospects for the Build Back Better Act to...more
12/20/2021
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Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) ,
Biden Administration ,
Business Taxes ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
International Tax Issues ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Proposed Legislation ,
SALT ,
Share Buybacks ,
Spinoffs ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) (the “Senate bill”), just over two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its own version of the same legislation...more
12/12/2017
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501(c)(3) ,
501(c)(6) ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Alternative Minimum Tax ,
Base Erosion Tax ,
C-Corporation ,
Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Deferred Compensation ,
EBITDA ,
Excise Tax ,
Income Taxes ,
Individual Mandate ,
International Tax Issues ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Pass-Through Entities ,
PFIC ,
Popular ,
Proposed Legislation ,
REIT ,
Section 1031 Exchange ,
Section 179 Property ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Tax-Exempt Bonds ,
UBIT
House Republican Tax Bill Imposes Excise Tax on Wealthy Private Universities and Excess Compensation of Highly Paid Employees; Subjects State Pension Plans to UBTI Rules -
On Thursday, November 2, House Republicans led by...more
11/7/2017
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Adjusted Gross Income ,
Alternative Minimum Tax ,
Charitable Donations ,
Charitable Organizations ,
Covered Employees ,
Disqualified Persons ,
Educational Institutions ,
Establishment Clause ,
Form 990 ,
Grandfathered Status ,
Highly Compensated Employees ,
Income Taxes ,
IRS ,
Political Speech ,
Private Foundations ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Retirement Plan ,
Standard Deduction ,
State and Local Government ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Tax Incentives ,
Tax-Exempt Bonds ,
Tuition ,
UBTI
Today, the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives released their long-anticipated tax reform bill, entitled the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”. While there have been multiple statements from the Republican majority in the...more
11/3/2017
/ 501(c)(3) ,
Alternative Minimum Tax ,
Charitable Deductions ,
Child Tax Credit ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Deduction Limitations ,
EBITDA ,
Educational Institutions ,
Estate Tax ,
FDAP ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
Fringe Benefits ,
International Tax Issues ,
Like Kind Exchanges ,
Meal and Entertainment Expenditures ,
Medical Expenses ,
Multinationals ,
Net Operating Losses ,
Parent Corporation ,
Pass-Through Entities ,
PFIC ,
Private Foundations ,
Property Tax ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Religious Institutions ,
Retirement Plan ,
Roth IRA ,
Section 179 Property ,
Section 409A ,
Section 457A ,
Section 501 ,
Shareholders ,
Tax Cuts ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Tax-Exempt Bonds