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Internal Revenue Service Research and Development Tax Deductions

The United States Internal Revenue Service is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. The IRS is charged with collecting revenue and enforcing the Internal Revenue Code.  
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Initial Insights Into the One Big Beautiful Bill: Key Provisions for Private Equity Funds and Fund Sponsors

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Recently, President Donald Trump signed the bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. OBBBA permanently extends many provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more

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Implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tax Deductions for Businesses

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President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act) into law on Friday July 4, 2025. Among other changes to existing federal tax laws (many of which are discussed by other alerts from this firm), the OBBB Act...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

House confirms favorable modifications to three key business tax provisions

On May 12, 2025, the Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means released a draft bill showing their tax plan for the budget reconciliation legislation. The legislation will likely undergo significant changes as it...more

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Some Research Credit Good News and Potentially Much Bad News

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Over an objection by the IRS, the Tax Court recently ruled in Kapur v. Commissioner that it could limit discovery and permit statistical sampling of voluminous data related to a claimed research credit. The court refused,...more

Gray Reed

Federal Income Taxation of Intellectual Property Development and Cost Recovery

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Intellectual property (“IP”) development can cost millions of dollars so cost recovery timing can be financially material. General tax principles typically require that expenses associated with creating assets having useful...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Fenwick Writes Comment Letter on Notice 2023-63 on Amortization of Specified Research or Experimental Expenditures under Section...

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Following the IRS’s issuance of guidance in Notice 2023-63 regarding R&D capitalization under Section 174, a working group of several Fenwick tax group attorneys commented to the IRS and the U.S. Treasury Department on...more

Freeman Law

The Research and Development Credit – Section 41

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Taxpayers are always interested in whether certain expenditures qualify as tax deductions. But many taxpayers often forget that expenditures may alternatively qualify for various tax credits. And all things being equal,...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

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

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The Government's Use of Procedural Hurdles to Disallow Research Credit Refund Claims

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In two recent cases, the IRS has tried to defeat research credit refund claims on procedural grounds, rather than simply litigating whether the substantive nature of the asserted research meets the requirements of section 41...more

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