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Analysis of International Tax Changes Under the 2025 Tax Legislation

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The Legislation combines spending and policy priorities from 11 congressional committees and will reshape federal policy across nearly every sector of the U.S. economy. There is a possibility for one or more additional...more

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Senators Introduce Joint Resolution on Revoking DeFi Broker Reporting Regulations

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On January 21, 2025, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), writing for himself and Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Thomas Tillis (R-NC), Tim Sheehy (R-MT), and Ted Budd (R-NC), introduced a joint resolution to the...more

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IRS Heeds Call to Investigate Misuse of Puerto Rican Residency Tax Benefits

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Prompted by congressional scrutiny of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) efforts to root out those abusing lucrative Puerto Rico tax benefits, the agency has committed to devoting more resources to audits of those taking...more

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Healthcare Preview for the Week of: May 30, 2023

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All Eyes on Debt Limit Votes in the House - Over the weekend, President Biden and Speaker of the House McCarthy (R-CA) reached a deal to raise the debt limit for two years (until 2025). The deal, dubbed the Fiscal...more

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DC District Court Underscores the Breadth of Congressional Investigative Authority in New Opinion

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Last week, in a decision that has a number of important implications for businesses that may find themselves facing a congressional investigation, the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed former President...more

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The devil is in the details: Final infrastructure framework announced, fingers crossed for continued R&E deductibility

Democratic leadership announced today that an agreement has been reached to fund the pending infrastructure and budget reconciliation measures. There does not appear to be any agreement regarding which specific tax measures...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Large Corporations and Wealthy Taxpayers Beware: The Taxman is Coming

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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Chuck Rettig on April 13, 2021, told a U.S. Senate panel that the tax gap in the U.S. may total $1 trillion per year. In his view, the increase from prior estimates is due, in part,...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup February 10 – 14, 2020

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of February 10 – 14, 2020. February 10, 2020: The IRS issued a revenue ruling providing guidance...more

King & Spalding

Senator Grassley Renews Probe into Non-Profit, Tax Exempt Hospitals

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) renewed his focus on charitable hospitals by asking the IRS on February 19, 2019, for data on hospital compliance with § 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, February 2019 #2

MEET THE MEMBERS - Congratulations! You have officially met all of the new faces in this session’s House Ways and Means Committee. For our final installment of Meet the Members, we introduce you to the two remaining...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, February 2019

MEET THE MEMBERS - Now just over a month into the 116th Congress, the tax writing committees have been formally announced, and we at Brownstein want to introduce you to all of the new faces. This week, we feature new House...more

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IRS Notice Offers Good News for State Colleges and Universities (at Least for Now)

In January 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2019-09, which provides interim guidance for Section 4960 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. As a reminder, Section 4960 imposes an excise tax of 21 percent...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, January 2019 #4

MEET THE MEMBERS - Welcome to the next installment of Meet the Members, where we take a look at the House Ways and Means newbies. In this week’s trio, we meet Reps. Ron Estes (R-KS), Dwight Evans (D-PA) and Jimmy Panetta...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, January 2019 #3

MEET THE MEMBERS - As we approach the third week of the new session, the tax writing committees have been formally announced, and we at Brownstein want to introduce you to all of the new faces. This week, we feature new...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, January 2019

TAX TIDBIT - Welcome to the 116th Congress! Congressional members have been sworn in and are back in Washington. The big caveat — the U.S. government remains shut down for the foreseeable future as we hurtle towards tax...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation - September 24, 2018

TAX TIDBIT - With the midterm elections just weeks away, both parties have been hitting the campaign trail hard, strutting their stuff to win over voters. ...more

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