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
On September 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury released a “preliminary list” of jobs that may be entitled to claim a tax deduction for certain wages. This preliminary list includes 68 occupations that “customarily and...more
Welcome to the September 2025 issue of REIT Tax News. Below, we summarize five key developments impacting REITs this past quarter....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 Treasury Department this week released a “preliminary list” of occupations that may be entitled to claim the “no tax on tips” deduction. As a reminder, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) provides an above-the-line...more
Depreciation plays a crucial role in real estate investing, directly impacting how much income investors report and how much tax they pay. Under Section 168(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, the costs of certain business...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
This was a question often raised during the annual Council On State Taxation (COST)/Tax Leadership Roundtable Southeast Regional SALT Update held earlier this month at the Encompass Health headquarters in Birmingham. The...more
On July 4, 2025 the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law.[1] The OBBBA made several provisions permanent from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). It also made significant changes aimed to expand deductions,...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
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the legislation commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill or OBBBA, which includes several changes to the federal income tax treatment of trade or business activities....more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “O3BA”), signed into law on July 4, 2025, affects charitable donors and the organizations they support. While most relevant provisions apply for tax years beginning on or after January 1,...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
President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) on July 4, 2025, marking a victory for his administration's ability to advance major policy priorities in his second term domestic agenda, including...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
The United States recently passed tax legislation called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a follow-up to the 2017 Trump tax cuts. While the bill is American, many Canadian families with cross-border ties, including...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. The legislation permanently extends some of the changes to the tax code first introduced in 2018 while adding additional provisions designed to...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 the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBB”) into law. While technically a budget reconciliation law, the OBBB is a significant piece of legislation that prioritizes this...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), enacted in 2025, brings sweeping changes to federal tax law, impacting individuals, businesses, investors, and the clean energy sector. Below is a summary of the major updates, with...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
Businesses looking to purchase certain property (e.g., equipment, machinery, vehicles, furniture) to use in their business now have a few extra incentives for doing so. Under recently enacted provisions in the “One Big...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