Treasury and the IRS today released guidance, Notice 2025-42 (the “Notice”), regarding what constitutes beginning of construction for solar and wind energy projects with respect to the production tax credit under Section 45Y...more
8/18/2025
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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 1—referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The OBBBA extends and makes permanent certain provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that were set to expire...more
7/11/2025
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President Trump last week signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”). The Act made a number of changes to the clean electricity production credit under Section 45Y of the Internal Revenue Code (the “PTC”), the...more
7/10/2025
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President Trump yesterday issued an executive order, “Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources” (the “Executive Order”), which could have a major impact on wind and solar energy...more
7/9/2025
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The United States Senate Committee on Finance this afternoon released draft text of its version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which is available here. Although we are continuing to review the draft legislation, at a high...more
6/17/2025
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May 12th, the House Ways and Means Committee released a package of tax provisions (the “Bill”) that includes claw backs of certain provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. Note that this Bill is a draft only, has not been...more
Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury issued the highly anticipated final regulations for the Clean Electricity Production Tax...more
1/17/2025
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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury last week released final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) relating to investment tax credits under Section 48 of the (the “ITC”) of the Internal Revenue...more
12/13/2024
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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury last week released final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) relating to the advanced manufacturing production tax credit under Section 45X (“45X Credits”)...more
Late last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury released final regulations relating to transfers of certain tax credits pursuant to Section 6418 of the Code (the “Code” and, such rules, the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury earlier this week released final regulations relating to direct cash payments for certain tax credits pursuant to Section 6417 of the Internal Revenue Code...more
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury published proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) relating to the tax credit for production of clean hydrogen under Section 45V of the...more
12/29/2023
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Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury released proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) relating to the advanced manufacturing tax credit under Section 45X of the...more
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday opened the registration portal for taxpayers selling eligible tax credits, including investment tax credits and production tax credits. The portal also permits tax-exempt and other...more
The Internal Revenue Service today released much anticipated proposed regulations with respect to the Section 45V tax credit for the production of clean hydrogen, which we expect will generate significant comments. The Foley...more
Late last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury released the long-awaited proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) relating to investment tax credits under Section 48 of the Code...more
11/21/2023
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of the Treasury earlier this month released final regulations (the “Low-Income Community Bonus Credit Rules”) relating to the low-income community bonus credit pursuant to...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Department of the Treasury earlier this week released extensive proposed regulations relating to direct cash payments for certain tax credits pursuant to Section 6417 of the Internal...more
On May 12, 2023, the IRS and the Department of the Treasury issued highly anticipated guidance regarding the requirements to satisfy the domestic content bonus tax credit provisions for investment tax credits under Sections...more
On April 4, 2023, the Department of Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released Notice 2023-29 (the “Notice”) providing a high-level overview of the rules they intend to include in...more
4/5/2023
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On February 13, 2023, the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released Notice 2023-17, providing a high-level overview of the program to be established under Section 48(e) of the Internal Revenue Code (the...more
On November 30, 2022, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service published Notice 2022-61 (the “Guidance”) describing how to satisfy certain prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements (the “PWA...more
On August 12, 2022, the House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “Act”), which the Senate passed on August 7, 2022. President Biden has indicated that he will sign the Act into law....more
The Biden Administration has proposed the creation of a new tax credit under the new Section 48D of the Code for qualifying electric power transmission property that is placed in service after December 31, 2021, but before...more
On June 29th, the IRS released Notice 2021-41 (which may be found here), which retroactively extends the Continuity Safe Harbor to six years. This follows the release of Notice 2020-41 (discussed here) on May 27, 2020, which...more