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
Signed into law on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the "Act") permanently extends and modifies several cornerstone provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, restores key business incentives, and makes...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, which had narrowly passed through the United States Congress. The OBBBA makes permanent certain tax provisions that were due to expire...more
On July 4, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBB”) into law. Among many changes, the OBBB included an expansion of the qualified small business stock (“QSBS”) gain exclusion under Section 1202 of...more
Upon becoming law in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) extended the opportunity to generate investment tax credits (“ITCs”) to renewable natural gas (“RNG”) projects, incentivizing the development of new projects and...more
A common structure for equity REITs, the UPREIT model allows a REIT to hold and operate its assets through a single operating partnership. This structure provides tax advantages and liquidity opportunities for property...more
Founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other investors (all of which are collectively referred to herein as “investors”) should be familiar with Internal Revenue Code Section 1202, a valuable provision that...more
Now that final regulations on the transferability of energy tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act have been issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), many investors...more
On April 25, 2024, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations (T.D. 9993) (the “Final Transfer Regulations”) regarding the transfer election for certain tax credits by eligible...more
Real estate developers have long had ample reasons to take on projects involving historic buildings, courtesy of Section 47 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. As amended, Section 47 (the “Code”) provides for a...more
Developers of renewable energy projects prior to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) were able to enter into joint ventures and leasing arrangements with other private companies that had a sufficient tax liability...more
On August 5, 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the US Tax Court’s bench opinion in favor of partners and investors in a refined coal business. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has...more
Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 provides for a credit equal to a percentage of the cost of new equipment for the generation of renewable energy, including solar energy used to produce electricity or to heat or...more
On January 6, 2021, the US Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued final regulations (T.D. 9944) (the “Final Regulations”) on the Section 45Q carbon capture tax credit (the “Carbon Credit”). The Final Regulations...more
The US Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released anticipated final regulations pertaining to the federal income tax credit for carbon capture projects under Section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code on...more
On February 20, 2020, the IRS issued its first round of guidance regarding the carbon sequestration tax credit found in Section 45Q (the “Section 45Q Credit”) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as amended, the “Code”) in...more
In 2018, Congress revamped a tax credit available under section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) for companies that capture and sequester carbon dioxide (or other carbon oxides). On February 19, 2020, the Internal...more
On February 19, 2020, the IRS issued two guidance items concerning the tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration (COS) under section 45Q: Notice 2020-12 and Revenue Procedure 2020-12. The new guidance is very similar to IRS...more
On February 19, 2020, the IRS published two guidance documents... of significant legal and commercial importance to the nascent market for carbon capture and sequestration production tax credits set forth in Section 45Q of...more
Further clarity could help unlock much needed investment for a significant number of delayed projects. - After a two-year delay, the IRS finally issues highly anticipated guidance regarding the carbon capture tax credit...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued the first round of guidance regarding the tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration under Internal Revenue Code Section 45Q. This guidance is divided between two documents:...more
The guidance issued on February 19 by the Internal Revenue Service is the type that the carbon capture and storage industry had sought, and will hopefully open up the market for investment by eliminating tax-related...more
Investors and project sponsors await proposed regulations and interim guidance under Section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code to resolve uncertainty and unlock significant carbon capture, utilization and storage market...more
In Technical Advice Memorandum 2017-29-020 (July 21, 2017) (the “TAM”), the IRS denied claims by two tax equity investors (the “Investors” or each an “Investor”) for renewable energy tax credits on grounds that the...more