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Exempt organization revenue raisers under House tax bill

On May 12, 2025, the Republicans from the House Committee on Ways and Means released an updated draft tax bill. Several of the provisions in the draft would affect tax-exempt organizations. The bill will almost certainly...more

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House Ways and Means Committee releases draft tax amendments for 2025 Reconciliation Bill

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On Friday, May 9, the House Ways and Means Committee released a portion of its draft tax legislation (the “House Draft Bill”) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”). The House Draft Bill is primarily...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Koalitionsvertrag 2025 aus steuerrechtlicher Sicht

Die Koalitionsgespräche sind abgeschlossen. Wir geben einen ersten Überblick über die gemeinsamen steuerrechtlichen Ziele, die sich CDU/CSU und SPD als Koalitionspartner gesetzt haben. Die Koalitionspartner planen Änderungen...more

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Death, Taxes and Politics: The Future of Tax Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election

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Private Wealth Services attorneys Patrick Duffey and Brent Berselli discuss the future of tax policy with Tax attorney Joshua Odintz ahead of the 2024 election. The attorneys provide an overview of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs...more

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Members of Congress Propose Massive Tobacco Tax Increase

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A new bill, the “Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2023” (S.2929 and H.R.5715) has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.  The bill would...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, December 14, 2021

Senate Finance Committee Democrats Update Build Back Better. On Saturday afternoon, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) released legislative text for the committee’s portion of the Build Back Better Act. The text...more

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Senator Manchin Announces That He Will Not Support the Build Back Better Act – Where Things Stand Now

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Yesterday, on December 19, 2021, Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said that he opposes the Build Back Better Act, which effectively prevents its passage.  While there are no immediate prospects for the Build Back Better Act to...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Keep Your Eyes on Mark-to-Market

We report elsewhere in this issue on Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden's (D-Ore.) proposed mark-to-market tax on billionaires. On August 5, 2021, Wyden also introduced the Modernization of Derivatives Tax Act of 2021...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Senate Democrats Release Corporate Profits Minimum Tax

On Tuesday evening, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sens. Angus King (I-ME) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released draft legislation to impose a minimum tax on certain large corporations. The proposal is...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

The Build Back Better Act: Tax Reform Implications for Private Equity M&A

On October 28, 2021, US President Joe Biden unveiled his slimmed down $1.75 trillion infrastructure spending plan and congressional leadership released H.R. 5376 (the Build Back Better Act (BBBA)), which contains revised...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, October 5, 2021

TAX TIDBIT - Where In the Tax World Are Manchin and Sinema? The contents and scope of the Build Back Better Act—the budget reconciliation measure through which congressional Democrats are attempting to enact most of...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

A Comparison of Recent Tax Proposals

This chart compares the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Revenue Proposals (the Greenbook), to the tax proposals in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) approved by the House Ways and Means Committee on September 15, 2021....more

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Let the Estate Tax Planning Games Begin - But Where Will They Land - the House Ways and Committee Has Spoken

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“President Biden and Democrats in the Congress have been working on a $3.5 trillion spending and tax package, and the details are starting to be revealed. Indeed, on Sunday, September 12th, the House Ways and Means Committee...more

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Wyden’s Carried Interests Bill

On August 5, 2021, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced legislation that, if enacted, would tax carried interest recipients annually at ordinary interest...more

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Summary of Proposed 2021 Federal Tax Law Changes

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President Biden has proposed major changes to the Federal tax laws, some of which are sought to be effective earlier in 2021 (i.e., we are already operating under these changes, if they later become adopted), as compared to...more

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Reading the "Green Book" Tea Leaves: President Biden's Tax Proposals and What It Means for International Private Clients

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On May 28, the U.S. Treasury Department released its general explanation of the Biden Administration's U.S. tax proposals. Commonly referred to as the "Green Book," the explanation outlines the new U.S. tax proposals set...more

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Additional Guidance Issued for President Biden’s American Jobs and American Families Plan

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In April 2021, President Biden announced the “American Families Plan,” which included some significant tax law changes. Among the proposed changes included in the “American Families Plan” was the increase of the tax rate that...more

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President Biden’s Made in America Tax Plan Would Treat More Cross-border Transactions as Inversion Transactions

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Generally, an “inversion” is a transaction in which a non-U.S. corporation directly or indirectly acquires substantially all of the properties held by a U.S. corporation or partnership, after which the former owners of that...more

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A Summary of Potential Tax Increases That Would Occur Under the Proposed American Families Plan

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On April 28, 2021, the White House issued a fact sheet which set forth some additional details on the tax increase proposals contained in President Biden’s “American Families Plan.” ...more

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The American Families Plan: Tax Implications for Real Estate Owners and Developers

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On April 28, 2021, President Biden announced a plan to expand benefits for lower- and middle-income Americans under his “American Families Plan” (the “Plan”). To pay for the Plan’s benefits, President Biden has proposed...more

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Biden's American Families Plan Proposes Income Tax Hikes

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The American Families Plan is the third part of the Biden Administration's Build Back Better agenda, addressing "human infrastructure" and containing proposals on free education, direct support to children and families, and...more

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Biden Administration's Made in America Tax Plan: Interaction with OECD Inclusive Framework

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The American Jobs Plan is a proposal to increase investment in infrastructure, the production of clean energy, the care economy and other priorities. The Made in America Tax Plan (Tax Plan) is the vehicle to pay for the...more

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Recently Released: Additional Summary of Biden Administration’s Tax Reform Plan

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Preliminary Biden Tax Plan - Although high-level details were previously announced, on April 7, 2021, the U.S. Treasury released an additional summary of the Biden administration’s tax reform plan, “The Made in America Tax...more

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Biden Administration's Made in America Tax Plan: Procedural Aspects

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During the run-up to the November presidential election, then-candidate Joe Biden previewed his tax priorities to enact a more progressive tax code to roll back "giveaways" to wealthy individuals and corporations under the...more

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South Carolina May Join Other States to Provide State and Local Tax Cap Workaround

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) imposed a $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes for tax years 2018-2025.  While corporations are not subject to the cap, business owners who pay state and...more

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