On July 2, 2020, the IRS issued proposed and temporary regulations under section 1502 that implement certain statutory amendments made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act...more
On April 17, 2020, the IRS released Rev. Proc. 2020-25, which provides procedural guidance to secure bonus depreciation with respect to qualified improvement property (QIP) made by the CARES Act. Due to a scrivener’s error in...more
On Friday, April 10, 2020, the IRS released Rev. Proc. 2020-22 providing procedural guidance to taxpayers wishing to implement changes made by the CARES Act to the section 163(j) business interest deduction limitation. Under...more
On March 6, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released PLR 202010002, which provided the appropriate normalization treatment of infrastructure surcharges in supplemental rate proceedings as well as the proper...more
On September 6, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (Service) issued Rev. Proc. 2019-37, which grants advance consent to taxpayers seeking to change a method of accounting to comply with the new proposed regulations under...more
On September 5, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (Service) and the Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations for Section 451(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). Section 451(c) was added to the Code...more
On September 5, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations under section 451(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). The proposed regulations generally...more
In CCA 201928014 (July 12, 2019), the IRS Office of Chief Counsel provides its view of the interplay between the net operating loss (NOL) carryover rules set forth in Internal Revenue Code (Code) § 172(b)(2) and the...more
On July 11, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (Service) and Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued final regulations to remove Treas. Reg. § 1.451-5, which allowed taxpayers to delay reporting income with respect to...more
On May 16, 2019, the Large Business and International (LB&I) Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced changes in, and a new name for, a key compliance program (IR-2019-95) to identify the biggest and most...more
On May 7, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2019-33 (Notice) announcing its intention to issue guidance under section 168 of the Internal Revenue Code to clarify the normalization requirements for...more
In an important win for taxpayers, a unanimous Second Circuit reversed the Tax Court on a statutory interpretation issue involving the three-year “look-back” period for Tax Court jurisdiction over refunds. Borenstein v....more
On November 29, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Rev. Proc. 2018-60, which provides automatic accounting method change procedures for taxpayers seeking to comply with section 451(b), relating to the timing of...more
12/11/2018
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Tax Reform
On November 26, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued much-anticipated proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) under section 163(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of...more
On November 19, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) issued final regulations (T.D. 9843) that address taxpayers’ use of negative amounts in calculating additional costs for purposes...more
As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress enacted sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code, which were intended to promote investments in low-income communities designated as “Opportunity Zones.”...more
On October 3, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-76 (the Notice) to address the deductibility of business meals under section 274(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA) made...more
Last year, the federal government enacted the most substantial tax reform legislation since 1986 in Public Law 115-97, commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). Of the many business-friendly changes,...more
On August 1, 2018, the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations implementing section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) (referred to as the “transition tax”). Section 965...more
On June 21, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) 2018-30-011, which disallowed a taxpayer’s deduction of a portion of a success-based fee incurred in a corporate transaction because the...more
On May 10, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Rev. Proc. 2018-29, 2018-21 I.R.B. 1, which provides automatic accounting method change procedures for taxpayers seeking to align methods of income recognition for...more
On May 10, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Rev. Proc. 2018-31, which provides an updated list of automatic changes in methods of accounting. As was the case with its predecessor, Rev. Proc. 2017-30, the list...more
On April 12, 2018, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-35 (Notice) that provides transitional guidance relating to advance payments under Rev. Proc. 2004-34. Despite the...more
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-26, which provides guidance under section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code regarding the “transition tax.” Section 965 imposes a transition tax...more
4/10/2018
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Shareholders ,
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Tax Rates
On March 27, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-23 (the Notice), providing transitional guidance for parties to suits and agreements covered by sections 162(f) and 6050X of the Internal Revenue Code...more