Qualified Opportunity Zone Update: Highlights of Treasury's Second Set of Proposed Regulations
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
The business tax provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), as signed by the president on July 4, reflect sweeping changes aimed at incentivizing small businesses, domestic investment, and manufacturing. Outlined...more
Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) offer generous tax incentives but are bound by a complicated set of rules, not to mention the complexity of Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), as QOFs are typically organized...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of January 18, 2021 – January 22, 2021... On January 20, President Biden’s chief of staff, Ronald...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of June 1 – June 5, 2020... June 2, 2020: The IRS reminded taxpayers who live and work abroad that...more
The US Treasury released Final Regulations providing guidance under Subchapter Z (the Opportunity Zone Provisions) of the Internal Revenue Code in December of 2019. The Final Regulations clarify many portions of two earlier...more
Yesterday, the staffs of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a statement describing the "opportunity zone" program created by the Tax Cuts...more
On April 17, 2019, the Treasury released long-awaited additional regulations and guidance with respect to Section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code, concerning the Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”) Program (the...more
On April 16, 2019, Treasury issued its second set of proposed regulations (“OZ Regs 2”) regarding Section 14002 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The OZ Regs 2 are very helpful and answer a...more
Every golfer knows there is a penalty attendant to hitting the ball out-of-bounds. In business, as with golf, being "out-of-bounds" when dealing with the Internal Revenue Code has penal consequences too. But there the analogy...more
OVERVIEW OF QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY ZONE PROGRAM - The Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, introduced in 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is a new incentive program for investments in over 8,700 QOZs located in all 50...more
The Treasury Department has now released a second round of proposed regulations on the Qualified Opportunity Zone (“QOZ”) provisions under Internal Revenue Code Section 1400Z-2....more
After months of waiting, the IRS and the Treasury Department have released a second set of proposed regulations (the “Second Tranche”) relating to the opportunity zone provisions enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
Last week, Treasury issued a second round of proposed regulations regarding Opportunity Zones?offering investors more clarity as to whether their investments in designated Opportunity Zones will qualify for current capital...more
In December 2017, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), Congress established a new tax incentive program to promote investment in certain low-income communities designated by the IRS as qualified opportunity zones....more
Introduction - On April 17, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued a second set of proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under section...more
While mid-April is typically associated by most with Tax Day, this year, April 2019, also became the month the highly awaited second round of Qualified Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulations were issued....more
The long-awaited second round of Opportunity Zone-related Proposed Regulations were issued Wednesday, April 17, 2019. It is clear that Treasury’s goals, in its second round of guidance, were to: 1. Provide clarity and/or...more
Treasury Provides Additional Clarity on Opportunity Zones by Issuing Second Round of Proposed Regulations - On April 17, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued its second set of proposed regulations (the “New...more
As part of the US federal tax reform in 2017, Congress enacted sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), to provide incentives economic growth and investment in designated...more
On April 17, 2019, Treasury issued its second installment of proposed regulations relating to Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”). The regulations are 169 pages in length, and (as suspected) are fairly complex. Nevertheless,...more
As part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress added a new provision to the Internal Revenue Code allowing investors to defer capital gains by making investments into Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs). However, many...more
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued a broad, investment-friendly second set of Proposed Regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) regarding “Qualified Opportunity...more
On April 17th, the IRS and Treasury issued the next (and long-awaited) package of proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under the “qualified opportunity zone” provisions of Section 1400Z-2 of the Code...more
2018 was a very active year for tax developments. The big story was the application of the substantial reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which took initial effect in 2018. But there were several other developments...more
Economic development in distressed communities is ramping up as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury Department update and finalize guidance released last October to govern investments in Opportunity Zones....more