Life Sciences Quarterly: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Implications for Life Science Business
Tax Developments Affecting Health Care Organizations and Investor-Owned Hospital Companies
On May 22, 2025, the House passed the legislation entitled “The One Big Beautiful Bill” (the “BBB”). The BBB makes permanent, extends and, in certain cases, modifies, a number of provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
Before the enactment of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property had a 15-year recovery period for depreciation...more
Economists maintain that income generated from an expensed capital asset is tax-free. We can’t verify that claim. We can confirm that expensing capital assets enhances investment returns. For this reason, bonus depreciation...more
Earlier this week, a local tax practitioner asked us whether it was true that the City of Portland no longer allows depreciation deductions resulting from an election under Section 754 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as...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
• As noted in Part 1 of this series, new H.R. 1, informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act), has been the most important change to the U.S. tax code in a generation. • In Part 2, this client alert continues to...more
A Basic Guide to Renewable Energy Market and Energy Tax Basics - So What’s the Quick (But Not Dirty)? A Deficit Restoration Obligation (DRO) is an obligation by a partner in a partnership to restore a negative balance...more
On December 22, 2017, H.R.1, commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”) was signed into law. The Tax Act made the most significant changes to the U.S. tax code since 1986, and will have an effect on...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act contains changes impacting the LIHTC Program. While the low-income housing tax credit program emerged largely unscathed, the reduction in corporate tax rates will reduce equity pricing. ...more
When a taxpayer (“Taxpayer”) sells a property (“Property”) with a fair market value (“FMV”) in excess of Taxpayer’s basis in Property in exchange for cash in an arm’s-length transaction, the amount of gain that he realizes on...more