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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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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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 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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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
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 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
On December 20, 2019, the President signed the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019 (the “Act”), which extends the current production tax credit (PTC) for wind for an additional year. The Act extends the...more
1/6/2020
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Recognizing that, in some situations, a plan to develop or construct a facility or energy property may raise significant national security concerns, the IRS released Notice 2019-43 (which may be found here) on July 12, 2019,...more
7/16/2019
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Tolling
The IRS recently issued Notice 2018-59 (the “Notice”) which provides clarification to “beginning of construction” for taxpayers seeking to take advantage of the section 48 renewable electricity investment tax credit (ITC) for...more
7/9/2018
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Early this morning, the House and Senate voted to pass a budget deal that included $17 billion in tax provisions, ending a short overnight government shutdown. The bill (H.R. 1892) extends the investment tax credit (ITC) to...more