Taxing Intelligence: AI's Role in Modern Tax Administration
REFRESH Five Tax Traps for Business Lawyers Advising Nonprofit Organizations
Navigating Contractor vs. Employee Classification
Insider Transaction Traps for the Unwary
Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 1: Independent Contractors vs. Employees
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 60 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: Employee Retention Tax Credit
REFRESH Steps for Launching a New Charitable Corporation
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 58 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: IRS Investigations
Are Overtime Wages and Tips Exempt From Income Tax? What Employers Need to Know to Prepare
Nonprofit Basics: IRS 10-Course Charity Workshop
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Debt Financed Income - Part 3
The Demystification of Employee Retention Credits for Private Equity Deals — PE Pathways Podcast
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Modifications and Exceptions - Part 2
Navigating the Inflation Reduction Act: Insights on Brownfield Energy Community Credits - Energy Law Insights
4 Key Takeaways | Analyzing the Top Income Tax Cases in 2024
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Year-End Thoughts and New Year To-Do List
What's the Best Transaction Structure for My Sale?
Year-End and Trending Tax Considerations for Health Care Practices
Nonprofit Basics: International Grantmaking – Part 2 Income Tax Withholding Rules
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Tax Relief and Possible Retirement Plan Resources for Hurricane Victims
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On January 10, 2025, the United States Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") released final regulations (the "Final Regulations") under section 6011 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), that identify...more
Recently, in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. United States (No. 3:22-cv-00515), a District Court in Texas ruled that the taxpayer was entitled to interest deductions on a production loan entered into as part of a multibillion-dollar...more
On June 17, 2024, the Treasury Department launched “a new regulatory initiative to close a major tax loophole exploited by large, complex partnerships.”[1] The loophole: partnership basis-shifting transactions....more
What is now considered as the “abusive use of partnerships,” and why would this matter to the IRS? The agency recently released IR-2024-166, which is intended to provide “new guidance to stop partnerships from using...more
The Tax Court recently ruled that a new partnership (“New Shoals”) that is deemed to form on a technical termination may use a taxable year that starts on the date of the termination of the old partnership (“Old Shoals”),...more
On February 21, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced plans to conduct dozens of audits on the use of business aircraft by large corporations, partnerships, and high-income individuals as part of its “campaign”...more
Few individual owners of a closely held business would be surprised if you explained to them that the IRS and the Federal courts generally will subject many transactions between certain “related” persons to heightened...more
Losses Weren’t Always Bad- Most tax advisers are aware that, prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (the “TRA”),[i] the Code placed few limitations on the ability of an individual taxpayer to use deductions from a particular...more
On November 9, 2022, in a 15-2 decision, the Tax Court held that the IRS improperly issued Notice 2017-10 in Green Valley Investors, LLC, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 159 T.C. No. 5. The Notice designated...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of August 22nd, 2022, through August 26th, 2022 Warner Enterprises, Inc. v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-85 | August 22, 2022 | Buch, J. | Dkt. No. 17163-19L. ...more
Taxes and Snowy Weather? How many of you awoke Saturday to find that the winter storm about which we had heard so much during the preceding days had lived up to its hype? What was your first thought? “Fudge,” right?...more
In late 2020, the IRS issued a notice confirming imminent proposed regulations that would allow certain tax strategies to avoid the individual $10,000 state and local tax (“SALT”) deduction limitation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
The IRS recently released a trio of Revenue Procedures - 2021-48, 2021-49, and 2021-50 - related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which has been the subject of a number of our previous legal alerts. Some alerts can...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 15, 2021 – November 19, 2021... November 15, 2021: The IRS published a news release...more
Having Fun? Hope you had a decent weekend. Perhaps you did something interesting, maybe even fun, like some end-of-season apple picking? Or maybe you had a cider donut with some hot coffee at a farm stand you stumbled upon...more
Last fall, the IRS announced, with respect to pass-through entities (LLCs or other entities taxed as partnerships or S corporations), that, if state law allows or requires the entity itself to pay state and local taxes (which...more
On September 13, 2021, the Congressional House Ways and Means Committee introduced 880 plus pages of legislative tax proposals to help fund the House’s proposed $3.5 trillion stimulus package. Below are tax proposals relevant...more
Earlier this year, Alabama became one of 19 or so states to enact a pass-through entity tax as a workaround to the so-called “SALT Cap” enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that limits the deductibility of...more
Illinois enacted a pass-through entity tax (PTE Tax) that may be elected by partnerships and S corporations to permit a federal deduction of state income taxes that otherwise are limited to $10,000 per year from 2018 to 2025...more
Tax Gap- In a report released last week, the U.S. Treasury Department explained that the so-called “tax gap” – i.e., the difference between the amount of federal income taxes owed by taxpayers for a taxable year and the...more
Memory Lane- You may recall how clear it became, as the bill that would become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) moved through Congress in late 2017, that C corporations were about to realize a number of tax benefits,...more
One of the most controversial individual income tax changes enacted under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) is the $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local income and property taxes (“SALT”) for federal income tax...more