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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this sixth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts the deductibility of corporate charitable gifts under Code Section 170(b)(2)(A)....more
While most of us were enjoying the summer and the holiday weekend, Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed, major tax legislation commonly called the One Big Beautiful Bill with the acronym, OBBBA. OBBBA covers a...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), enacted July 4, 2025, made a number of changes to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), including certain notable changes to the provisions of Code Section 1202 for...more
President Donald Trump recently signed into law the bill commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). On July 4, 2025, the OBBBA made permanent many of the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA)...more
In this fifth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Steve Nofziger and I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts certain business owners who are contemplating a sale of their shares, Code...more
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law, following the approval of Congress. OBBBA contains the following compelling updates from a real estate investment trust (REIT)...more
In this fourth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), Steve Nofziger and I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts pass-through business entities and their owners, Code Section...more
It hasn’t taken long for the business world to start unpacking the implications of the newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). While media coverage has mostly centered on its impact on individual taxpayers and the...more
The recently signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) implements significant changes under Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code), applicable to qualified small business stock (QSBS) issued on or after July...more