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 “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
On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). This alert summarizes the key changes under the OBBBA relevant to private equity sponsors and their investors, as well as some of the...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
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), which was signed into law on December 22, 2017, made some of the most significant changes to the tax law since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Absent further legislation, many of the provisions...more
President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act) into law on Friday July 4, 2025. Among other changes to existing federal tax laws (many of which are discussed by other alerts from this firm), the OBBB Act...more
President Trump signed into law major tax legislation on July 4, 2025. While the bill itself is almost a thousand pages long, below is a bite-size summary of what you need to know about key provisions: Individual Income and...more
On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) into law. Congress passed the OBBBA through budget reconciliation, a special legislative process that allows Congress to advance...more
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act or TCJA has a number of important segments presently scheduled to expire on December 31, 2025. How does the TCJA sunset affect business taxation going forward? What planning could be...more
Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted the new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain...more
Section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code, introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), created an opportunity for business owners to substantially lower their income taxes. Subject to many qualifications, beginning in...more
One of the most dramatic changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted in December 2017 was the creation of a new 20% qualified business income ("QBI") deduction under new Section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code (the...more
Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted a new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain...more
The Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) Section 199A Qualified Business Income Deduction (“QBI Deduction”) generally provides a 20% deduction (or reduction) of a taxpayer’s qualified net business income received from a pass-through...more
When it was announced that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a new 20% deduction for qualified business income (“QBI”) of pass-through businesses, many business owners started planning for huge tax savings. Hopefully, their...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of January 28 – February 1, 2019. January 28, 2019: The IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2019-04,...more
From its inception, Section 199A made it fairly clear that the deduction for qualified business income (“QBI”) would not apply to all income in respect of pass-through businesses. Aside from limitations dependent on the...more