On Friday, July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Reconciliation Bill commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Broadly speaking, the OBBBA extends and makes permanent many provisions enacted by the...more
President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act) into law on Friday July 4, 2025. Among other changes to existing federal tax laws (many of which are discussed by other alerts from this firm), the OBBB Act...more
Businesses have entered 2024 facing the challenge of forecasting future tax obligations and preparing tax filings in a time of uncertainty, not the least of which is created by Congressional indecision on the future of a...more
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) limited like-kind exchanges occurring after 2017 to “real property held for productive use in a trade or business or investment if such real property is exchanged for real property of a...more
On September 13, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued final and reproposed regulations under § 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), the provision of the Tax Cuts...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law in December 2017, promised radical changes to the federal tax code. Many of its goodies were aimed at the real estate industry, but because of a critical drafting error, many...more
President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”) on December 22, 2017. Included in the TCJA were amendments to IRC §168(k), which permits taxpayers to expense 100% of the costs of certain qualified...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