In PLR 202020011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reaffirmed that a wind energy facility owned by a utility affiliate and unrelated investor in a LLC taxable as a partnership was not “public utility property” because the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published a notice providing the inflation-adjustment factors and reference prices to be used in the calculation of renewable energy production tax credits under Internal Revenue...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 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
On December 13, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations under section 59A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, commonly referred to as...more
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 26, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) under section 163(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended...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
As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the TCJA), Congress added new rules to the Internal Revenue Code intended to promote investments in low-income communities designated as “qualified opportunity zones.” New IRC...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 June 19, 2018, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations (REG-131186-17) (2018 Proposed Regulations) concerning the manner in which partnership liabilities are allocated among the...more
Chief Counsel Advice 201741018 (the CCA), which was released on October 13, 2017, considers the manner in which losses of a non-US partnership should be allocated among the partnership’s US and non-US investors in connection...more
On September 7, 2017, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2017-47, which provides a safe harbor for regulated public utilities for inadvertent or unintentional uses of a practice or procedure that is inconsistent with the...more
Grecian Magnesite Mining, a Greek corporation (GMM), owned an interest in Premier Chemicals LLC, a Delaware limited liability company classified as a partnership for US income tax purposes (Premier). Premier conducted a trade...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released guidance on certain “north-south” spinoff transactions. Generally, a “north-south” transaction consists of a transfer of property from a shareholder to a corporation close...more
As reported in a prior Sutherland Legal Alert, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the 2015 Budget Act) makes significant changes to the procedural rules governing federal income tax audits and judicial proceedings that apply...more
The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (Service) have issued temporary regulations (Regulations) clarifying the federal employment tax treatment of the owners of partnerships and other entities...more
On May 5, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2016-31, which updates prior guidance regarding the beginning of construction requirement for IRC sections 45 and 48 renewable energy tax credits following...more
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The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (Service) have issued proposed tax regulations (Proposed Regulations) that provide guidance on, and significantly scale back, the types of activities...more
This week the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Subcommittee), in conjunction with the Subcommittee’s hearing on July 22, 2014, released a report on...more
On June 6, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Private Letter Ruling 201423011 (the PLR), confirming that income from certain data center services can constitute “rents from real property” for purposes of the...more
On May 7, Treasury and the IRS published proposed regulations addressing which corporation succeeds to the tax attributes of another corporation that transfers assets in an acquisitive asset reorganization described in IRC §§...more
On January 29, Treasury and the IRS issued proposed regulations that would dramatically change the manner in which partnership liabilities are allocated among the partnership’s partners under IRC § 752 (the Proposed...more
In a move that was nearly 27 years in the making, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued long-awaited final regulations under §336(e) (the Final Regulations) on May 10. Section 336(e)...more