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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Week in Weed: February 2025 # 2

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we look at a new proposal that would prevent cannabis companies from deducting business expenses, even if...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Not Cool, Man: Senate Proposal to Expand 280E Taxes on Cannabis Businesses Even if Rescheduled

Anyone who thought that the momentum towards federal liberalization of marijuana would be a straight line found themselves with a cold dash of water to the face. Late last week Republican senators filed a bill, entitled the...more

Alston & Bird

Look Ahead to the Week of January 22: Senate Focuses on National Security Supplemental

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Look Ahead to the Week of January 22: Senate Focuses on National Security Supplemental The Senate is in session this week, but the House is out. Last week, President Biden signed an additional temporary spending bill to...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

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

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

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Three Estate Planning Proposals to Watch

House Democrats recently released additional legislative proposals that, if passed, would affect several commonly used estate planning techniques. Among those proposals are three that would significantly impact some of the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Wyden Proposes Expansion of Pass-Through Deduction

On July 20, 2021, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed legislation to modify the 20% deduction allowed to investors in certain pass-through businesses under Section 199A....more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] 32nd Annual Legislative Seminar Series: Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla.

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Former Congressman Mike Ferguson, leader of BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, and former Congressman Heath Shuler, a Senior Advisor on the Federal Policy team host bipartisan leaders from the House and Senate to discuss...more

Brooks Pierce

North Carolina Legislative Update - January 2020

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After holding a one-day session in Raleigh on Jan. 14, North Carolina Legislators have left town and will return on April 28. Budget Bill - An impasse over the budget bill (H966) was not resolved this week as the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Recent Alabama Tax Legislative Developments

Many predicted that the 2018 regular session of the Alabama Legislature would be less eventful than in years past since members of the House of Representatives and Senate are up for re-election this year, and most lawmakers...more

Littler

Lawmakers Take Aim: Will #MeToo Curb Nondisclosure or Arbitration Agreements?

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In 2017, the #MeToo movement highlighted the prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace, toppling prominent figures in numerous fields. Sexual harassment has been unlawful for decades, of course, yet this vexing problem...more

Lowndes

Tax Bill Passes in Congress, Off to President Trump for Signature

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Congress has passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and President Trump is expected to sign it almost immediately. ...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

How Tax Reform Could Trigger Significant Taxes For Unwary Stockholders (And Funds) In Foreign Companies

Summary: - On December 15, Congress released its final version of Tax Reform – the Conference Report Bill (the Bill). - Statutory language of the Bill may cause an unexpected tax hit on unwary U.S. stockholders who...more

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How are REITs impacted by the Jobs Act?

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On December 15, 2017, the Conference Committee of the U.S. Congress approved the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Jobs Act”). The Jobs Act is expected to be approved by both Houses of Congress and signed by President Trump. The...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Business Tax Reform – Key Provisions

Congress is set to vote on the tax reform bill, entitled the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," after resolution in conference committee of the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. Here is a quick look at the...more

Lowndes

BREAKING: House Passes Final $1.5T Tax Cut Bill

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This morning, Congress passed the Republican’s tax reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”). President Trump is expected to sign the Act into law almost immediately. The Act will drastically change the Internal...more

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Tax Law Changes Under The Tax Cuts And Job Act

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On December 15th, the congressional conference committee charged with reaching a consensus on the competing versions of the Senate and House tax reform bills released its conference report containing the language of the final...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

High-Level Summary of Conference Committee Version of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” as Filed

Details of a final agreement among House and Senate Republicans emerged last week -- including rate cuts for “C” corporations, individuals and pass-through businesses. Here’s a summary of what the conferees have agreed to,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Senate Passes Tax Reform Bill

On November 16, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of H.R. 1, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” by a vote of 227-205 (the “House Bill”). On November 20, 2017, the Senate Finance Committee released the Senate’s...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Seventeen Provisions to Watch in the Senate Tax Reform Bill

On December 2, 2017, the Senate passed a tax reform bill that differs in some key aspects from the tax reform bill the House approved on November 16, 2017. A House and Senate conference committee will begin work to resolve...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

U.S. Senate Passes Its Version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1); Descriptions of the Bills Passed in the House and Senate and...

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In the early hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) (the “Senate bill”), just over two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its own version of the same legislation...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Tax Reform Passes The Next Hurdle -- The Senate

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This is the second issue in a planned series of alerts for employers on selected topics on tax reform. The series of Tax Reform Management Alerts is designed to provide an in-depth analysis of executive compensation and...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Pass-Through Treatment: Don’t bite the hand that feeds most Americans!

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Professional and Business Services (PBS) industry sector accounted for 12.9% of jobs in the U.S. during 2016 as opposed to 7.9% for the Manufacturing Sector (MS). The...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Tax Reform – The Current State of Play

On December 2, the Senate passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The House of Representatives earlier approved a competing version of the Act on November 16. The Senate and House entered into conference this week to...more

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