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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
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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
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Scrutiny Around the Hospital Tax-Exempt Status
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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
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) (OBBBA). This alert focuses on OBBBA changes regarding qualified small business stock (QSBS) and qualified opportunity zone (QOZ)...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
The IRS has issued Announcement 2021-10 (the “Announcement”) in response to public questions regarding the potential effect the 2020 Census results may have on the boundaries of previously designated Opportunity Zones. ...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 16 – 20, 2019. December 16, 2019: The IRS released a notice extending the phase-in...more
Opportunity Zones (or OZs) may be the most talked about provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. There are many twists and turns on the yellow brick road to completing an OZ project. This article sets forth the...more
In April, the Department of the Treasury released the much-anticipated second round of Treasury Regulations under section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code (April Regulations). This article provides certain highlights of...more
The Qualified Opportunity Zone rules under Section 1400Z of the Internal Revenue Code permit certain investors to realize substantial tax benefits if they invest capital into federally-designated low-income communities known...more
The Qualified Opportunity Zone (“QOZ”) regime introduced as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides three significant and distinct federal income tax benefits to encourage QOZ private investment: ..A taxpayer may...more
On April 16, 2019, Treasury issued its second set of proposed regulations (“OZ Regs 2”) regarding Section 14002 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The OZ Regs 2 are very helpful and answer a...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 introduced Opportunity Zone Provisions, IRC Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2, as an incentive to encourage investment in low-income communities. The provisions allow taxpayers to defer tax on...more
After months of waiting, the IRS and the Treasury Department have released a second set of proposed regulations (the “Second Tranche”) relating to the opportunity zone provisions enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
Investors, property owners, real estate developers, and other businesses now have much clearer guidelines for how they can obtain tax benefits under the federal Opportunity Zone program. The IRS published the long-awaited...more
While mid-April is typically associated by most with Tax Day, this year, April 2019, also became the month the highly awaited second round of Qualified Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulations were issued....more
On April 17, 2019, the United States Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) issued its second round of proposed regulations related to investment in Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”) and Qualified Opportunity Funds...more
2018 was a very active year for tax developments. The big story was the application of the substantial reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which took initial effect in 2018. But there were several other developments...more
Offering significant tax breaks for investors, the federal Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program is an intriguing prospect for real estate developers and investors. However, the Treasury Department is still formalizing the...more
Real estate developers, institutional investors, local governments, and virtually anyone with capital gains could reap significant benefits under the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, which Congress created as part of...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) provided the most comprehensive update to the tax code in over two decades. Of the many changes the TCJA provided, Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the IRC are of the most heavily discussed...more
Expectations are high this year for “Opportunity Zones” in the real estate industry. A product of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs) are expected to be one of the biggest trends to impact real...more
BACKGROUND - Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 were added to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These new provisions to the Code introduce a multitude of new terms,...more
BOSTON — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created the Opportunity Zone program which provides real estate investors a new tool to defer gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets by investing those gains in a “Qualified...more
Treasury takes an important first step in bringing clarity to the QOZ program. The Proposed Regulations provide a 31-month grace period for development of a QOZ Business - The treatment of land is clarified for...more
Background – In December 2017, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), Congress established a new tax incentive program to promote investment in certain low-income communities designated by the IRS as qualified...more
The United States Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued proposed regulations (Prop. Reg. §1.1400Z-2) (the “Proposed Regulations”) on October 19, 2018, under Section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, (the...more
The year 2018 has been a monumental one for the state and local tax community. If the sweeping changes to the US federal tax code made by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and continued efforts by the states to...more