The Federal Tax Deductions for Tips and Overtime Pay: Opportunities for Restaurants Employers
The Impact of One Big Beautiful Bill on Estate Planning
As we discussed here, on July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBBA) into law, which included a provision establishing a new temporary above-the-line tax deduction for “qualified tip...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are rolling out guidance on the new “No Tax on Tips” provision under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act), ushering in a significant change for...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“BBB”) made permanent several temporary provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”), while also introducing changes to numerous items related to individual income tax. Several...more
Employers got a sneak peek at the jobs that will qualify for the “no tax on tips” deduction over the holiday weekend thanks to a list obtained by Axios. The September 1 release provides the first real clarity on which...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. The legislation contains a multitude of changes to the tax law that may affect an individual’s personal income, estate, and gift taxes. This Alert...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBBA), Pub. L. No. 119-21, was enacted July 4, 2025. The OBBBA makes numerous changes to the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code)....more
The recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”) introduces several significant amendments to the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) that directly affect U.S. employers and employees. Key provisions—particularly the...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the legislation commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill or OBBBA, which includes many tax law changes impacting individuals. The changes cover a broad range of...more
As many people may remember one of Donald Trump’s campaign promises during the 2024 election was that he would eliminate taxes on social security. That did not happen. Instead, the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA or the Act), enacted in July 2025, introduces significant changes to the treatment of state and local tax (SALT) deduction and the alternative minimum tax (AMT). ...more
On July 4, 2024, President Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which contains two provisions that provide federal income tax deductions on both tips and overtime compensation beginning January 1, 2025, through December 31,...more
Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a capital gains exclusion for certain qualified small business stock (QSBS) when a stockholder sells the same. This gain exclusion impacts venture-backed startups, angel...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. It includes two federal tax deductions for a portion of an eligible worker’s tips and overtime earnings. Effective for 2025 through...more
President Donald Trump signed a massive budget bill last month – the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) – and it significantly impacts non-profits and tax-exempt organizations. While some of the new changes may be...more
In this ninth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), I discuss provisions of the Act that may permit individual taxpayers to deduct the interest incurred with respect to their...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act). The Act changes key features of US tax law. Notably, the Act: ..Makes permanent the Section 199A2...more
In this eighth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), I discuss provisions of the Act that impact the taxation of worker moving expenses....more
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), the sweeping, comprehensive budget legislation enacted on July 4, 2025, seeks to fulfill several key campaign promises of President Donald Trump. Among those promises, the OBBBA makes...more
Earlier this month, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) into law, which contains two key provisions that are likely to be very popular with employees. Those provisions provide federal income tax...more
On July 4, 2025,, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) became law. The Act itself was almost 1,000 pages. It made many of the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent and included new federal tax provisions....more
In a sweeping move set to reshape employee paychecks, the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) introduces two significant federal tax deductions for hourly workers: one for overtime pay and another for tip income....more
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBB”) was signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025. The BBB generally extends certain tax provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) that would have otherwise...more
In welcome news for individual taxpayers, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act temporarily increases the “SALT cap” – the limit on the amount of the income tax deduction for state and local income, sales, and property taxes – from...more
The Administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill” includes a new overtime tax provision, broadly described as “No Tax on Overtime.” More accurately, the Bill allows an employee tax deduction of a portion of overtime payments, up to a...more
In this seventh installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), I discuss provisions of the Act that impact the deductibility of individual charitable gifts under Code Section 170....more