Qualified Opportunity Zone Update: Highlights of Treasury's Second Set of Proposed Regulations
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
Taking Advantage of Opportunity Zones: A Panel Discussion
What Are Opportunity Zones & Opportunity Funds? George Morrison Explains the Investment Potential
Practitioners, operators and investors in the commercial real estate space are well familiar with Opportunity Zones and how they can be utilized for preferential tax treatment on investments. First created under the 2017 Tax...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created opportunity zones as an economic development tool to stimulate investments in distressed communities. This tool extends tax advantages to investors in qualified opportunity funds, provided...more
In Notice 2020-39, the IRS extended a number of deadlines for the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program. For a detailed explanation of the rules applicable to the QOZ program, see our discussion of the final QOZ...more
On June 4, 2020, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS issued Notice 2020-39 to provide relief regarding various deadlines applicable to the federal opportunity zone program....more
On June 4, the IRS provided some much-needed relief to opportunity zone investors and qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the IRS published Notice 2020-39, which...more
INTRODUCTION - The COVID-19 pandemic has led Governors of many states to request that their states be declared federal disaster areas. As of this writing, President Trump has declared numerous states to be federal disaster...more
The Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) tax incentive program provides an opportunity for a taxpayer to defer and potentially eliminate the recognition of capital gains if, within certain 6-month time frames, the taxpayer makes...more
The Qualified Opportunity Zone rules under Section 1400Z of the Internal Revenue Code permit certain investors to realize substantial tax benefits if they invest capital into federally-designated low-income communities known...more
There has been a lot of “buzz” in the media about Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”). Some of the media accounts have been accurate and helpful to taxpayers. Other accounts, however, have been less than fully accurate, and...more