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Income taxes are taxes that are collected on the individual earnings of persons or entities. Depending on the jurisdiction, income taxes are calculated and collected in a variety of ways. Some tax systems collect income taxes based on a progressive scheme, while others may utilize a proportional or regressive framework. less -

SALT Alert: Final OBBBA Temporarily Expands SALT Cap and Revises AMT Phaseout

Venable LLP on 8/20/2025

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA or the Act), enacted in July 2025, introduces significant changes to the treatment of state and local tax (SALT) deduction and the alternative minimum tax (AMT). ...more

Section 1202 and QSBS: A Survey of States That Don’t Conform to the Federal Treatment

Frost Brown Todd on 8/14/2025

Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a capital gains exclusion for certain qualified small business stock (QSBS) when a stockholder sells the same. This gain exclusion impacts venture-backed startups, angel...more

Income Tax Changes Warrant Consideration When Awarding Equity Incentives

Jackson Walker on 8/12/2025

Tax law is an interrelated web of complex rules, and changes in one rule can impact compensation strategies for management and executives even if the change is to individual income tax calculation rules. Executives should...more

One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1 – 119th Congress (2025-2026): Part V – Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion / Code Section...

Foster Garvey PC on 7/23/2025

In this fifth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Steve Nofziger and I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts certain business owners who are contemplating a sale of their shares, Code...more

Countdown to Tax Changes: Navigating Budget Reconciliation 2025

Lippes Mathias LLP on 3/19/2025

As the clock ticks down to the end of 2025, the impending sunset of key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) looms large, threatening tax hikes for millions of Americans. With Congress at a crossroads, the...more

How Often to Review Your Trust and Estate Plan

Allen Barron, Inc. on 2/26/2025

How often should you review your trust and estate plan? Is there a regular cycle to these reviews, or should they be driven by significant events in your life or the lives of your beneficiaries and executor or trustee? How...more

Revised U.S. Tax Proposals Will Affect Foreign Investment

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP on 11/9/2021

The U.S. House Committee on Rules recently released an updated version of the Build Back Better Act (Act) to reflect the White House’s Build Back Better framework (Framework) announced on the same day (October 28, 2021). ...more

The Reintroduction of Net Operating Loss - A Pepper Hamilton and Financial Executives Alliance Webinar

Troutman Pepper Locke on 6/26/2020

Recent law changes can provide portfolio company liquidity and/or require reconsideration of 2018–2020 deals. During this webinar, Steven D. Bortnick and Todd B. Reinstein, partners in the Tax and Estates Practice Group of...more

Surf’s Up, Dude! High Tech Tax Solutions for High Tech Workers! - Tax Planning Solutions for the Exercise of Incentive Stock...

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R.... on 5/20/2020

I remember the first time that I signed onto the internet. It was 1998 and I had just started work for Deloitte and Touche in Boston. My boss was traveling on my first day with the company,so I had to entertain myself...more

Not So Fast…the (Unexpected) Consequences of Allowing Your Employees to Early Exercise Options

WilmerHale on 5/24/2019

From time to time, and primarily when the economy is booming, allowing stock options to be “early exercised” - that is, allowing options to be exercised before they are vested - becomes in vogue. We are in one of those times....more

What is new in a “nutshell” for FORM 1040 for TAX YEAR 2018

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 1/25/2019

For Tax Year 2018, Taxpayers will use the new and re-designed Form 1040. Although the IRS’s sentiment is that many Taxpayers will only need to file Form 1040 and none of the NEW NUMBERED SCHEDULES, there will be Taxpayers...more

2019 Estate and Tax Planning Newsletter

Blank Rome LLP on 1/9/2019

Blank Rome’s annual estate and tax planning newsletter addresses estate planning concepts and techniques that should be considered in 2019 by our clients and friends. 1. Transfer Taxes. The major changes made in 2010 in...more

Tax Reform’s Impact on Transportation Finance Transactions

Vedder Price on 8/24/2018

New tax legislation was signed into law on December 22, 2017 (the Act). The Act lowers the corporate rate from a top graduated rate of 35 percent to a flat rate of 21 percent. Under the Act individuals and certain...more

Decoding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – Part VII: Family Matters and Major Events in the Lives of Individuals

Foster Garvey PC on 3/9/2018

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) creates the need for tax planning with respect to several major life-changing activities individuals may encounter, including marriage, divorce, home ownership, casualty losses, medical...more

U.S. Tax Reform Has A Profound Impact On Inbound Investment

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/7/2018

The current focus of the international tax community is on the United States, and for good reason. In the midst of a contentious political landscape, months of anticipation, and a decidedly clandestine drafting process, U.S....more

More Planning Tips for Individuals Under New Tax Act

Ruder Ware on 2/15/2018

As Shanna Yonke mentioned in her January 22, 2018 Legal Update The New Tax Law Provides Estate Planning Opportunities, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on December 22, 2017. The Act (officially,...more

Major New Tax Law Changes That Affect Individuals

Saul Ewing LLP on 2/7/2018

The 2017 tax reform legislation colloquially referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) made some significant changes in the taxation of individuals, and these changes have already begun to generate new planning...more

Viewpoint: Alabamians get another reason to fund tax-credit scholarships

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/29/2018

With the Dec. 22 enactment of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, many Alabamians and companies doing business in our state should see a reduction in their 2018 federal income tax bills but, somewhat surprisingly, an increase...more

2017 Tax Planning: Accelerate Deductible Expenses Before Year End

Blank Rome LLP on 12/27/2017

Blank Rome’s “2017 New Tax Law – Client Alert” is a special series on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and related changes to the tax code. In the series, Blank Rome’s lawyers share their analysis of different provisions in the Bill...more

Tax Alert: "What Does New Tax Bill Mean for Individuals and Business Owners?"

Porter Hedges LLP on 12/21/2017

Tuesday night the Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Reform Act of 2017”). The House was expected to re-vote on it yesterday. Kevin Brady, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Paul Ryan, Speaker...more

Year-End Tax Planning Tips

Bowditch & Dewey on 12/6/2017

If Congress is successful in lowering tax rates for at least some taxpayers in 2018, there are several year-end taxing-saving tips to consider prior to December 31st....more

Tax Reform Update: A Call for Committee Action

Burr & Forman on 10/5/2017

On September 27, 2017, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the National Economic Council, the Chair of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the Chair of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the Speaker of the...more

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