On July 21, 2025, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published the long-awaited draft legislation (Draft Legislation) for the new UK carried interest tax regime (New Regime) that will apply from April 6, 2026. Under the New...more
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1 into law, the budget reconciliation bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act). As discussed in our prior alert following the passage by the House of...more
Welcome to the November 2024 edition of our UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen publication of the Finance Bill 2024-25 and interesting cases on the loan relationship unallowable purpose test and the extent that tax applies...more
The Chancellor’s announcement on Wednesday that the UK’s capital gains tax (CGT) rate for carried interest would be increased by only a few percentage points from 28% to 32%, effective April 2025, was welcome news to many....more
Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer in the role’s 800-year history, delivered Labour’s first budget in 14 years on the 30th October. We have set out below a brief summary of some of the tax measures...more
Yesterday, 30 October 2024, the Chancellor announced that the Autumn 2024 budget will raise taxes by £40bn, the biggest raise since 1993. While the Autumn budget arguably does not portray as pessimistic an outlook for...more
The real estate sector was not ignored by Budget announcements today. There were no seismic changes – the changes announced were less impactful than the speculation in the weeks preceding the Budget....more
Welcome to the July edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month features a call for evidence from the government on potential changes to the tax on carried interest and interesting decisions on the application of the carried...more
On July 27, 2022, Senator Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that they have reached an agreement on a budget reconciliation bill (the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the “Act”). Although the Act...more
...The federal tax laws are certainly about to change. With the need to raise revenue as a top priority for the Biden Administration, everyone is expecting dramatic changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Tax legislation is...more
I. Introduction - On September 15, 2021, the House Ways and Means Committee approved tax provisions for proposed inclusion in the Build Back Better Act (the BBBA). If enacted in their current form, the proposals would,...more
In April 2021, President Biden announced the “American Families Plan,” which included some significant tax law changes. On May 28, 2021, the United State Department of Treasury issued a report entitled “General Explanation of...more
In January 2021, the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations (the Final Regulations) under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code). Code...more
President Biden has proposed major changes to the Federal tax laws, some of which are sought to be effective earlier in 2021 (i.e., we are already operating under these changes, if they later become adopted), as compared to...more
On April 28, 2021, the White House issued a fact sheet which set forth some additional details on the tax increase proposals contained in President Biden’s “American Families Plan.” ...more
The Biden-Harris administration on April 28 introduced the American Families Plan (AFP), a $1.8 trillion legislative framework including provisions to “grow the middle class, expand the benefits of economic growth to all...more
On April 28, 2021, President Biden announced the American Families Plan, a $1.8 trillion proposal that would fund a number of education and childcare projects....more
Over the last month, President Biden has discussed various tax proposals that will increase income taxes on businesses and high-income individuals. In the last week, we have learned more about what some of those proposals...more
On Jan. 8, 2021, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued final regulations (Final Regulations) (T.D. 9945) governing the treatment of “carried interests” (also referred...more
On January 7, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“the Code”). The Final Regulations address the...more