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With an effective date of September 2, 2025, New Beginning of Construction guidance will be prospective and not apply to projects that satisfied beginning of construction under old IRS guidance before September 2, 2025. ...more
On Aug. 15, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released IRS Notice 2025-42, narrowing the rules for what qualifies as “beginning of construction” (BOC) under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act...more
On August 15, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2025-42, which provides guidance on the beginning of construction requirement as it relates to the new credit termination...more
On August 15, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2025-42, providing long-awaited guidance on the “beginning of construction” requirements for wind and solar facilities under Sections 45Y and 48E of the...more
On August 15, the Treasury Department published long-awaited guidance on applicability of “beginning of construction” safe harbors for solar and wind projects under the One Big Beautiful Bill and Executive Order 14315. While...more
Eyes on Energy Tax Update is a regular publication of the Holland & Knight Renewable and Alternative Energy Tax Team that provides highlights of important developments. The Renewable and Alternative Energy Tax Team also...more
On May 16, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2024-41, which modifies Notice 2023-38 (Prior Guidance) by expanding the list of Applicable Projects (defined below) to...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) today released Notice 2024-41, Domestic Content Bonus Credit Amounts under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Expansion of Applicable Projects for Safe Harbor in Notice 2023-38...more
On March 22, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2024-30, which modifies prior guidance on the energy community enhancements. It further clarifies (a) when offshore...more
On April 4, 2023, the IRS and the Treasury issued Notice 2023-29 (the “Notice”) announcing an intention to propose regulations, and providing interim guidance, with respect to the requirements that taxpayers must satisfy in...more
The domestic content bonus credit (the DC Bonus), which was introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the IRA), provides an enhanced tax credit for renewable energy and storage projects constructed with sufficient...more
Following the release of energy community bonus credit and low-income community bonus credit guidance, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS recently provided taxpayers with the domestic content bonus credit guidance....more
In what appears to have been an update to previously released guidance, the Department of Treasury (the “Treasury”) and Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) posted an unexpected update to Notice 2023-29 (the “Notice”)...more
On June 29, 2021, the IRS issued Notice 2021-41, which provides a further extension of the continuity safe harbor and revises the “facts and circumstances” rules: ..For PTC and ITC-eligible projects for which...more
Renewable energy developers breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury issued guidance extending the safe harbor for wind and solar projects to qualify for the...more
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Proposed Regulations for carbon sequestration tax credits—under Section 45Q—addressing recapture risk and the availability of the credit when carbon is...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued on May 28th Notice 2020-41 titled: Beginning of Construction for Sections 45 and 48; Extension of Continuity Safe Harbor to Address Delays Related to COVID-19 (“Notice”)...more
The IRS issues anticipated guidance providing relief to developers facing delays related to COVID-19. Delayed renewable energy projects that began construction in 2016 and 2017 will now have an additional year to qualify...more
Treasury has made good on its widely anticipated commitment to provide relief for investment tax credit (“ITC”) and production tax credit (“PTC”) projects adversely affected by COVID-19 by issuing Notice 2020-41, which (1)...more
In a letter addressed to Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Treasury indicates its intention to revise the rules governing the deadline for construction of wind and solar projects to qualify...more
Treasury and the IRS released initial guidance on the amended Section 45Q carbon oxide sequestration credit on February 19, 2020. Notice 2020-12 and Revenue Procedure 2020-12 provide guidance relating to the beginning of...more
Solar developers are getting antsy about what is needed to show that they started construction on their 2020 (or later) projects by the end of 2019. The answer is not clear in the absence of solar-specific guidance from...more
Revenue Procedure 2014-12 provides a safe harbor for historic tax credit (i.e., the Section 47 rehabilitation tax credit) partnership transactions. On January 8, the IRS issued a revised version of it that provides a...more