Insider Transaction Traps for the Unwary
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Insider Transactions and Nonprofits
Nonprofit Basics: IRS 10-Course Charity Workshop
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Modifications and Exceptions - Part 2
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Basic Rules for Charities - Part 1
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - IRS Clarifies Emergency Distributions Tax Exceptions
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in North Carolina and South Carolina
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Private Foundation Advocacy
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Legislative Lobbying and Advocacy Rules for Public Charities
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Candidate Campaign Intervention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 176: Tax Exempt Healthcare Entities with Jim Pool, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorney
Scrutiny Around the Hospital Tax-Exempt Status
Nonprofit Basics: What Nonprofits Need To Know About Expenditure Responsibility Grant Requirements
Podcast - Charity Care: A Discussion on Tax-Exempt Hospitals
Nonprofit Basics: Document Retention Policies and Subpoenas, and a Conversation With Aviva Gilbert on Why Good Policies Matter
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 3: Private Foundation Approaches to Policy Advocacy Allowed by the Internal Revenue Code
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 2: Legislative Lobbying Activities by Public Charities
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 1: Candidate Campaign Intervention
Change of Control: Golden Parachute Rules in the Sale Process
In this sixth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts the deductibility of corporate charitable gifts under Code Section 170(b)(2)(A)....more
On July 4, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) was signed into law, which includes provisions restoring immediate deduction of domestic research and experimentation (R&E) expenditures in tax years beginning after...more
The qualified small business stock (QSBS) rules can be a powerful tax planning tool, and, following the recent enactment of a signature tax law, they have become even more potent....more
Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code provides that noncorporate taxpayers may exclude certain gains on the disposition of Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) held longer than the minimum required holding period. One...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, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which both extends many soon-to-expire provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and makes several additional changes to the...more
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBB”) was signed into law, introducing a broad package of policy reforms, funding reallocations, and regulatory changes set to reshape the nation’s infrastructure,...more
President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. Among many other provisions, this bill permits taxpayers to deduct domestic research and experimentation (R&E) expenditures under new...more
On July 4, 2025, the legislation commonly known as “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBBA”) was enacted. The BBBA makes permanent, extends and, in certain cases, modifies, a number of provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts...more
On July 1, 2025, a little over two weeks after the Senate Finance Committee released its draft tax title (the “Initial Senate Draft”), the U.S. Senate secured sufficient votes to advance its version of the “One Big Beautiful...more
The race to remake portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) and to prevent expiration of certain Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions reached completion with Legislation signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025....more
La Cámara de Representantes de los EE.UU. aprobó hoy, con una votación de 218 a favor y 214 en contra, la versión previamente autorizada por el Senado del proyecto de ley conocido como “One Big Beautiful Bill”. Se espera que...more
On June 17, the U.S. Tax Court ruled that AbbVie, Inc. could deduct the fee it paid to terminate its 2014 combination agreement with Shire plc. This decision represents a significant win for AbbVie, and it represents a...more
In a significant win for taxpayers, the U.S. Tax Court recently ruled in AbbVie Inc. v. Commissioner, Docket No. 2597-23, that a $1.6 billion "Break Fee" paid by AbbVie qualifies as an ordinary and necessary business expense...more
When toddlers engage in parallel play, the children play adjacent to each other, but do not try to influence one another’s behavior. Apparently, parallel play can extend well into adulthood and to the writing of federal...more
In an earlier alert, we described the potential impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill on withholding taxes imposed on loans made by foreign banks to U.S. borrowers. ...more
An Agency Under Siege - The mission statement of the IRS reminds taxpayers that it is their responsibility to understand and meet their tax obligations, while it is the role of the IRS to “enforce the [tax] law with...more
One of the most celebrated features of the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) is the ability to sell tax credits, including the Production Tax Credit (“PTC”) under Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) § 45 and the Investment Tax Credit...more
In this episode of Just Compensation, Megan Monson and Jessica I. Kriegsfeld talk to Anthony O. Pergola, Vice Chair of Lowenstein’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice group, about the complexities and challenges of...more
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for May 15, 2025 – June 2, 2025....more
On May 22, 2025, the US House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), which includes a temporary suspension of the amortization requirement for domestic research and experimentation (R&E)...more
The past is prologue: Do REIT qualification issues close with tax years, do they persist for ten (10) years (being the sum of five (5) years on account of the Section 856(g)(3) “lock out” plus another five (5) years of...more
Many closely held businesses operate through entities classified as “S corporations,” an elective federal income tax regime that combines elements of corporate and partnership taxation. Among other reasons, S corporations are...more
Senator Thom Tillis introduced a bill (called the “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act”) that would impose additional significant taxes on litigation funding investments. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OH) introduced a similar bill...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