REFRESH Five Tax Traps for Business Lawyers Advising Nonprofit Organizations
Domestic Tax Planning - Podcast with Janathan Allen
Nonprofit Basics: Federal Tax Filing Deadlines and Penalties
ESG and Healthcare Compliance
The Renoir Spelling Bee
4 Key Takeaways | Mid-Year Tax Update
Straddle-Year Tax Debts in Bankruptcy: Does the King Get Paid First? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 14]
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part I – State & Local Tax (SALT) Compliance During COVID-19: What to Do When You’re Behind
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Speaker Johnson Kicks Off Discussions for Reconciliation 2.0: House Republicans are laying the groundwork for a second reconciliation bill this fall that aims in part to revive key provisions excluded from the One, Big,...more
The Department of Commerce has floated a proposal to tax U.S. patent holdings as a means of reducing the national debt, as outlined in a recent Wall Street Journal article. It is a bad idea that reflects a troubling...more
On June 28, 2025, Senate Republicans released their updated version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), moving closer to finalizing their sweeping tax reform package ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. A key...more
On May 22, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” legislation authorized under the FY 2025 concurrent budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 14). The bill includes a broad range of...more
On May 22, the House of Representatives passed proposed tax legislation titled, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” (TOBBB), which will now be debated in the Senate. Among other proposals, if enacted into law, TOBBB would make...more
A sweeping federal tax bill that is currently under consideration in the US House of Representatives contains provisions that would significantly change the administration and enforcement of the Employee Retention Credit...more
Prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), there was no direct limitation on an individual taxpayer’s deduction of his or her state and local taxes (“SALT”) on the federal individual income tax return. Of course, for...more
On Monday, May 12, House Ways and Means Committee (“Committee”) Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) released text of the Committee’s tax title for the FY 2025 budget reconciliation bill—the amendment in the nature of a substitute...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee released an updated text of draft tax legislation (the “House Draft Bill”)...more
Every year, the members of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association’s legislative committee and the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (the “DFR”) work to improve Vermont’s captive insurance laws and regulations....more
Note From the Editors With 2022 well underway, the rapid pace of statutory, regulatory, policy, and industry activities in digital health continues in force. We bring you Vital Signs, a curated, one-stop resource on the most...more
Legislative Lowdown - BBBA Comeback? President Biden’s first State of the Union address appears to have reignited discussions around a revised version of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), though the president did not...more
The Brownstein Tax Policy Team is currently combing through the 1,600-plus pages of budget reconciliation text released last week. Below is a truncated version of Taxation & Representation that provides the latest on the...more
Certain revenue-raising proposals that would have affected the transfer tax regime and estate planning of high-net-worth individuals and trusts, which were included in the prior proposed bill in the House of Representatives,...more
This morning, President Biden proposed a framework agreement for the Build Back Better Act that contains $1.75 trillion in topline spending and $1.995 trillion in spending offsets (including $400 billion relating to IRS...more
From new fraud and abuse rules, to telehealth and tax legislation to health care privacy and private equity in the healthcare space, a lot has changed in health law over the past year. Please join us for a two-day virtual...more
Recent tax proposals may bring significant changes to the US federal, international and state and local tax landscape. Join us for our first nationwide Tax in the City® program for a discussion on the key proposed changes...more
The tax plan released last month by the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee would bring about extensive changes in the taxation of businesses and high-income individuals. Proposals Affecting Businesses - Key...more
As many readers have noticed, I have been silent for the past few months. That is partly due to exhaustion from reporting on the flurry of tax events that have occurred since the COVID-19 pandemic commenced in 2020 and also...more
The U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means’ tax proposals would significantly impact estate planning for high net worth individuals if enacted. Gift, estate and GST exemption amounts would be decreased; grantor trusts would...more
In this second blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax proposals, we address the proposed changes that will affect the taxation of trusts, estates, and retirement plans. As we discussed, on September 13, 2021, the...more
Democrats recently unveiled the Build Back Better Act, which, if passed, would bring significant changes to the Tax Code and would have a drastic impact on common estate planning techniques, including gifts to trusts. The...more
On November 12, 2020, the Federal Executive filed before the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union the “Initiative of the Federal Executive that reforms, adds and derogates various provisions of the Federal Labor...more
Most states have historically not subjected foreign-source income to state income tax. Consequently, since the passage of TCJA, the vast majority of states have opted not to tax GILTI (with most states explicitly decoupling...more
On April 11, 2018, the General Assembly’s Revenue Laws Study Committee released a draft tax bill for possible introduction in the legislative session that convenes May 16. This Alert provides a summary of the more important...more