Exceptions to the DAF Definition Under the Proposed Regulations
New Proposed Regulations Defining Donor Advised Fund Terms
End of Year Tax Planning: Tips for Healthcare Professionals and Practices
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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, which had narrowly passed through the United States Congress. The OBBBA makes permanent certain tax provisions that were due to expire...more
On July 4, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”)), a sweeping legislation package featuring significant changes to U.S. tax law. The OBBBA was passed via a budget reconciliation...more
Maine Governor Janet Mills submitted a supplemental budget, as amended by a change package submitted on January 25, 2021. The supplemental budget is notable for its retroactive conformity to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) as...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA, Public Law No. 116-260) was signed into law on December 27, 2020. The Act extends and expands changes to the rules of charitable giving enacted under the Coronavirus Aid,...more
The President recently signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act” or “the Act”). The following summarizes key tax provisions. Business Tax Provisions - Employee Retention...more
This client alert summarizes recent federal tax changes that are intended to provide relief to businesses and individuals impacted by the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) epidemic, including changes effected under recent IRS...more
The landmark 335-page Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), signed into law on March 27, 2020, is an estimated $2+ trillion package primarily devoted to providing economic relief and stimulus for...more
On June 11, 2019, the IRS issued final regulations that will prohibit taxpayers from using state programs to sidestep state and local tax (SALT) deduction limitations. The SALT deduction, which has been in existence for over...more
The new federal tax law that went into effect at the beginning of this year, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” (Tax Act), will affect almost every type of individual and business in the country, and not-for profit entities...more
There have been a number of significant estate planning developments in 2018 which will help clients prepare for 2019. The historically high increased exemption amounts for gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer...more
Sweeping changes to federal tax laws have introduced certain estate planning opportunities that can be implemented now and over the next few years. Here are tips to ensure your plans are as financially sound and tax efficient...more
When the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed, significant changes were made to the Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, the most prominent of which is the increased applicable exclusion amount, which...more
In Notice 2018-54, the IRS has notified taxpayers that proposed regulations are forthcoming which will deny state attempts to convert a taxpayer’s state and local tax obligations to a charitable deduction in order to avoid...more
Donor-Advised Funds There are many areas in which guidance is lacking concerning the operation of a donor-advised fund (DAF). In Notice 2017-73, the IRS provided interim guidance on two specific issues and requested comments...more
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law legislation, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), which is the most extensive overhaul of the United States of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) in 30 years....more
March Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The March § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and...more
he Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law on December 22, 2017. This tax reform law includes the following changes directly affecting nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, and those who donate to them. A number of...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) eliminated all miscellaneous itemized deductions that are subject to the 2% floor, capped state and local taxes deduction at $10,000, and doubled the standard deduction for single...more