Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives voted along party lines (with one Republican member voting present and two Republican members not voting) to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (the OBBB) to the Senate for...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Committee on Ways and Means (WMC) released a draft of the tax provisions of the highly anticipated budget reconciliation bill, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBB), and on May 14,...more
5/21/2025
/ Foreign Corporations ,
International Tax Issues ,
New Legislation ,
OECD ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Liability ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
U.S. House ,
Ways and Means Committee
Tax developments -
Other countries’ response to United States position on the Global Tax Deal -
On Friday, President Trump issued a memo discussing his administration’s intent to defend US companies from unfair foreign...more
On March 28, 2022, the Biden Administration released the 2023 Fiscal Year Budget (the 2023 Budget). It is important to note that the Budget assumes the Build Back Better Act (the BBBA) will be enacted as passed by the House...more
On August 25, 2021, Senate Finance Committee members Wyden, Brown, and Warner released draft bill language and a section-by-section summary of their proposed International Tax Reform Framework. The legislative language is...more
9/1/2021
/ Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
Foreign Profits ,
GILTI tax ,
Green Book ,
International Tax Issues ,
OECD ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
As Congress and the White House look to make a deal on infrastructure by this summer, negotiations regarding changes in the tax law continue. Since our prior alert, while progress has been made regarding a bipartisan...more
7/8/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Budget Reconciliation ,
Congressional Committees ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
GILTI tax ,
International Tax Issues ,
OECD ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reconciliation ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
Just a few months after regulations were finalized, and as taxpayers were getting comfortable with the international tax provisions implemented by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), proposals from President Biden and the...more
A year after the initial proposed BEAT regulations were released, Treasury and the IRS have issued a package of final and proposed regulations under § 59A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), the...more
On December 22, 2017, the President signed into law the bill formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Final Bill), which was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate earlier in the week. The passage of...more
On December 15, 2017, the House-Senate Conference Committee released a revised version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Final Bill) that is expected to be passed by the House of Representatives and Senate later this week and...more
On November 16, 2017, the House of Representatives passed a much anticipated tax reform bill, titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the House Plan), which was first introduced on November 2, 2017. The passage of the House Plan...more
On November 9, 2017, the Senate Finance Committee released a Description of the Chairman’s Mark of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” and on November 14, 2017, the Senate Finance Committee released a Description of the Chairman’s...more
11/20/2017
/ Corporate Taxes ,
Deferred Compensation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Energy Tax Incentives ,
Insurance Industry ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Property Tax ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration
On November 2, 2017, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee released their much anticipated tax reform bill, titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (as modified by Chairman Brady on November 3 and November 6, the House...more
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and Senate Finance...more
On February 26, Representative Dave Camp (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, released his much-awaited comprehensive tax reform plan (the “Camp Proposal”). That proposal seeks to cut marginal tax rates...more
3/6/2014
/ Capital Gains ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Employee Benefits ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Compensation ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Income Taxes ,
Insurance Industry ,
Net Investment Income ,
Partnerships ,
Real Estate Market ,
REIT ,
RICs ,
S-Corporation ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Reform ,
Tax Returns