Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector
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The Legislation combines spending and policy priorities from 11 congressional committees and will reshape federal policy across nearly every sector of the U.S. economy. There is a possibility for one or more additional...more
The US House and Senate are negotiating toward a July 4, 2025 deadline for the next massive US tax legislation. Current proposals are designed to continue many of the business-friendly provisions of President Trump’s 2017 tax...more
On Friday, May 9, the House Ways and Means Committee shared partial text for the tax portion of a reconciliation bill to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and make certain other tax reforms. The bill includes...more
Replacing Reed? Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, resigned from Congress last week. As of this writing, Republicans have not indicated when—or whether—they will fill the vacancy left by...more
Democratic leadership announced today that an agreement has been reached to fund the pending infrastructure and budget reconciliation measures. There does not appear to be any agreement regarding which specific tax measures...more
Big tax changes are on the way! President Biden, the House, and the Senate all seem to have their own agenda, but the proposal introduced by the House Ways and Means Committee (the “Proposal”) is a good starting point for...more
As Congress and the White House look to make a deal on infrastructure by this summer, negotiations regarding changes in the tax law continue. Since our prior alert, while progress has been made regarding a bipartisan...more
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Chuck Rettig on April 13, 2021, told a U.S. Senate panel that the tax gap in the U.S. may total $1 trillion per year. In his view, the increase from prior estimates is due, in part,...more
TAX TIDBIT - Welcome to the 116th Congress! Congressional members have been sworn in and are back in Washington. The big caveat — the U.S. government remains shut down for the foreseeable future as we hurtle towards tax...more
TAX TIDBIT - With the midterm elections just weeks away, both parties have been hitting the campaign trail hard, strutting their stuff to win over voters. ...more
All congressional committees that have issued explanations of the pending Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may not be speaking with one voice about supporting the federal income tax credit for research expenses. That is cause for...more
On November 16, 2017, the House of Representatives passed a much anticipated tax reform bill, titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the House Plan), which was first introduced on November 2, 2017. The passage of the House Plan...more
After releasing summaries and various Chairman's marks, the Senate Finance Committee ("SFC") approved its tax reform bill, the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," on November 16, 2017 and released the legislative text of the bill to the...more
Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Brady introduced the much anticipated House Tax Reform Bill – The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill is 429 pages, so it will take a little time to digest all the key provisions. ...more
After months of speculation a group of Republican leaders referred to as the “Big Six” (House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, Senate Finance...more
On September 27, 2017, the Trump Administration, the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance released their much-anticipated framework for tax reform (the “Framework”). The Framework generally...more