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Will 2025 Bring Greater Equity Investment and Debt Financing in NJ? NJ Aspire 3.0 aspires to do just that.

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On January 23, 2025, Governor Phil Murphy enacted significant amendments to the New Jersey Aspire Program by signing Senate Bill 1323/Assembly Bill 2076 into law. The amendments, collectively referred to as “NJ Aspire 3.0”...more

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Proposal to Remove Bond Cap Could Aid Affordable Housing Developers

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The U.S. Congress is currently considering the “Accelerated Supply of Affordable Production [ASAP] Housing Act” (the “Act”), legislation to address the nationwide affordable housing shortage and surrounding real estate...more

Hogan Lovells

Later Living: Perspectives from the UK and Europe - what are the key “need to knows” for investors in this sector?

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What are the key “need to knows” for real estate investors when investing in the later living sector in the UK, France and Spain? Given the trend towards an ageing population across Europe and beyond, later living is one of...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

UPDATE: Ohio General Assembly Passes Increased Historic and Opportunity Zone Incentives in SB 225

Ohio’s General Assembly recently voted to temporarily double its Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit (OHPTC) award cap and increase, then reduce Ohio’s Opportunity Zone (OZ) Tax Credit cap. For state fiscal years 2023 and...more

K&L Gates LLP

HUB Talks: Transparency, Unity, and Community with Elizabeth Jones, founder of The Equality Equation

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On this episode of Sustainable Outlook, Elizabeth Crouse of K&L Gates speaks with Elizabeth Jones on The Equality Equation’s mission to facilitate economic equality by developing impoverished communities into flourishing...more

Polsinelli

Opportunity Zone Deadlines Extended By COVID-19 Disaster Declarations (UPDATED)

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On January 19, 2021, the IRS published guidance in Notice 2021-10, extending critical deadlines and rules relating to investments in qualified opportunity zones. First, any investors facing a deadline between April 1, 2020,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Final Tax Regulations Offer More Certainty to Opportunity Zone Fund Managers and Investors

Opportunity Zone (or “OZ”) investment was hailed in 2018 and 2019 as the hottest and most innovative way of attracting significant private capital to distressed communities in the United States and its territories by offering...more

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Polsinelli Commentary on the Final Opportunity Zone Regulations

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Treasury issued final Opportunity Zone Regulations on December 19, 2019 (“Final Regulations”).  These Final Regulations update the first two rounds of Proposed Regulations (issued on October 29, 2018 and April 17, 2019)....more

King & Spalding

IRS and Treasury Release Final Opportunity Zone Regulations

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On December 19th, 2019, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued regulations (the “Final Regulations”) under Section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”)[i] finalizing,...more

Stinson LLP

Opportunity Zone Final Guidance

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The Treasury Department released final Opportunity Zone regulations on December 19, which combine and clarify the prior two sets of guidance, as well as an FAQ summary....more

Lowndes

Important Year End Deadline for Opportunity Zones

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Opportunity zones provide a powerful tool for taxpayers to defer recognizing their capital gains if they roll over their investment into a qualified opportunity zone fund, and offer investors the potential of avoiding...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations Released

On Thursday, December 19th, the U.S. Department of Treasury released the long-awaited final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations (the “Final Regulations”). The Final Regulations and explanatory materials that span 544 pages,...more

Lowndes

Act Before Year-End To Maximize Opportunity Zone Tax Benefits

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As 2019 comes to a close, there is an important deadline approaching for opportunity zone investors. December 31, 2019 is the last day on which investors can make an investment in a qualified opportunity fund (“QOF”) and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Highlights of New Opportunity Zone Regulations

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In April, the Department of the Treasury released the second round of regulations related to the opportunity zone program. Some highlights include... Originally published in Middle Market Growth, the official publication...more

Bilzin Sumberg

2019 South Florida Opportunity Zone Report

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Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to share the results of the 2019 South Florida Opportunity Zone Survey and subsequent Forum that we co-hosted with Urban Land Institute Southeast Florida/Caribbean (ULI SE FL/Caribbean) on June 5,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

QOZ Update: IRS Provides Relief for Early Investments of Net Section 1231 Gain

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There are many complex and confusing aspects to the qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) program, and the treatment of Section 1231 gain is no exception.  Internal Revenue Code Section 1231 applies to depreciable property and...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

IRS Issues Additional Qualified Opportunity Zone Regulations

The Qualified Opportunity Zone (“QOZ”) regime introduced as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides three significant and distinct federal income tax benefits to encourage QOZ private investment: ..A taxpayer may...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Opportunity Zones Update: New Proposed Treasury Regulations (Part II)

Qualified Opportunity Zone Businesses - BACKGROUND - 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...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Treasury Provides Additional Guidance on Opportunity Zone Provisions

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 introduced Opportunity Zone Provisions, IRC Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2, as an incentive to encourage investment in low-income communities. The provisions allow taxpayers to defer tax on...more

Bracewell LLP

Is the Opportunity Now a Reality? IRS and Treasury Release Second Tranche of Opportunity Zone Regulations

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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

Flaster Greenberg PC

Guide to the Surprises Lurking in the QOZ Proposed Regulations

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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

Verrill

Opportunity Fund Investors Prepare to Zone-In

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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

Akerman LLP

Treasury Releases Second Round Of Proposed Opportunity Zone Regulations

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The Treasury Department released the second round of proposed regulations under the Qualified Opportunity Zone program (the “New Regulations”) on April 17, 2019. These New Regulations make additions to, and in some cases...more

McAfee & Taft

IRS releases second tranche of proposed Opportunity Zone regulations

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On April 17, 2019, the IRS released the second set of proposed regulations (REG-120186-18) which include guidance on a number of issues that the McAfee & Taft Economic Development, Tax Credits and Business Incentives...more

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The Tax Benefits of Investing in Delaware's Opportunity Zones

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As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of 2017, Congress provided new tax benefits for investments in designated Opportunity Zones. While the specifics of the new law are still being ironed out, through...more

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