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Signed into law on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the "Act") permanently extends and modifies several cornerstone provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, restores key business incentives, and makes...more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
On July 4, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. The legislation introduces significant changes to both international and domestic business tax rules for US taxpayers. While...more
President Trump’s budget permanently extends numerous provisions of the Internal Revenue Code from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 and includes several changes that will have...more
The enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) on July 4, 2025 is the first key piece of tax legislation passed during President Trump’s second administration. While preserving much of the structure established...more
On July 4, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Bill), which was approved by the Senate and House earlier in the week. The 870 page-bill covers nearly every sector of the American economy, and...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law (the new law). The new law includes permanent extensions of three key business-favorable tax provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee released its version (the “Senate Bill”) of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 (the "House Bill”). This alert...more
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released proposed text for tax provisions to be included in the Senate’s version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB). Our prior Alert addresses the House version of the...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Tax-related proposals contained in the OBBBA would extend or make permanent select corporate, international and individual tax...more
Will America celebrate the Fourth of July with the passage of major tax reform? On May 22, House Republicans passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” under the budget reconciliation process. This marks a significant milestone...more
On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the House budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) (the “House Bill”) by a party-line vote of 215 – 214. The House Bill, which includes significant tax law...more
The U.S. House of Representatives, by a one-vote margin, passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “House Bill”) early in the morning on May 22, 2025. The House Bill has yet to be considered by the U.S. Senate and will...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “Bill”) by a one vote margin. Set forth below is a summary description of some of the provisions of the Bill....more
Earlier today, the White House released its fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request to Congress. Overall, it proposes $7.3 trillion in total spending, including a proposed $895 billion for defense and approximately $621 billion...more
Le 28 mars 2023 (le « jour du Budget »), la ministre des Finances du Canada a présenté le budget fédéral de 2023 (le « Budget 2023 »). Même si certains avaient prédit que le programme législatif chargé du ministère des...more
Earlier today, the White House released its fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request to Congress. Overall, it proposes $6.9 trillion in total spending, including a proposed $880 billion for defense and approximately $992 billion...more
Le 7 avril 2022 (le « jour du Budget »), la ministre des Finances du Canada a présenté le budget fédéral de 2022 (le « Budget 2022 »). Certains contribuables ont peut-être été soulagés de constater que le Budget 2022 ne...more
On April 7, 2022 (Budget Day), the Minister of Finance introduced Canada’s 2022 Federal Budget (Budget 2022). While taxpayers may be relieved that Budget 2022 does not include an increase to the capital gains inclusion rate...more
Tax Tidbit - Budget Reconciliation: By the Numbers. Since 1980, Congress has passed 26 budget reconciliation bills, 22 of which have become law. During 11 of those 41 years, Congress did not pass any budget reconciliation...more
Negotiations Update. After months of negotiation, Democrats appear close to an agreement between the White House, progressives and influential moderate Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on budget...more
In the recently released Budget 2021, Canada's federal government announced its plan to continue with the development of a Digital Services Tax (DST) to be imposed on certain large taxpayers. The DST is proposed to apply at a...more
On September 29, 2020, the French government published the 2021 Finance Bill, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis and an expected 10.2% reduction in GDP in 2020....more
On Friday, December 20, 2019, President Trump signed a $1.4 trillion spending package that included simplification of the taxes paid by private foundations. Unlike public charities, private foundations are subject to an...more
On February 27, 2018, the Minister of Finance introduced Canada’s 2018 Federal Budget (2018 Budget). The 2018 Budget includes measures affecting the taxation of passive income earned by private corporations, as was expected,...more