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Check out our summary of recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance for February 17, 2025 – March 14, 2025. Editors’ note: With the change in presidential administrations, the IRS has undergone significant transition...more
This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments - Full-year 2023 U.S. new light-vehicle sales reached approximately 15.5...more
On June 30, 2023, the United States Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published Final Regulations as guidance on the transition from the use of the Interbank Offer Rate (IBOR) to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate...more
By all measures, 2021 was a banner year for hiring, but 2022 and 2023 have been the opposite. According to one media source, more than 121,000 jobs in the technology sector alone — think Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc.,...more
USD LIBOR is the last step in the long and winding road that has been LIBOR’s slow demise over the last several years as all other LIBOR instruments worldwide have already substantially transitioned. As taxpayers prepare...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of February 13, 2023 – February 17, 2023. ...more
As we welcome 2023, and the final six months of certain London Interbank Offering Rates (“LIBOR”), issuers and borrowers of LIBOR-based tax-exempt bonds should evaluate whether changes to their financing documents are...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 13, 2021 – September 17, 2021... September 13, 2021: The IRS issued a news release...more
Extra, Extra!- Last Friday afternoon, as millions of unsuspecting Americans prepared for the long Memorial Day weekend – for many, perhaps, their first mask-less holiday celebration in almost 15 months – the Biden...more
On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more
Transactions involving the borrowing and lending of units of virtual currency (or crypto loans) are increasing in number and type. Lacking Treasury or IRS guidance with respect to crypto loans, potential tax issues that arise...more
Updated as of March 23, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. On Friday, March 20, 2020, the IRS released updated guidance, confirming Secretary Mnuchin’s statements from earlier in the day that the April 15, 2020, federal income tax filing...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have jointly issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) to address concerns and reduce uncertainty regarding the tax impact of the anticipated...more
On Oct. 9, 2019, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) providing taxpayers with broad and flexible guidance on the tax...more
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued proposed regulations providing guidance to taxpayers on the tax consequences of modifying financial instruments and contracts in advance of...more
The U.S. tax authorities have issued substantial guidance related to the phase-out of LIBOR – relevant to lenders, borrowers and parties to financial instruments of virtually every type. In proposed regulations (“the...more
A sea of change is on the horizon for benchmark interest rates as financial regulators respond to the need to replace the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). LIBOR has lost the favor and, in some respects, the trust of...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of July 8 – 12, 2019. July 9, 2019: The IRS updated its frequently asked questions page for the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) have issued final regulations that address amendments to the rules for discounting unpaid losses pursuant to Section 846 under the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
December Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - Important federal interest rates continue to rise. The December applicable federal rate...more
On November 6, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) issued proposed regulations that address amendments to the rules for discounting unpaid losses under section 846 that were enacted...more
September Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The September § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and...more
December Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The December § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs,...more