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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Insights for Commercial Real Estate

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), enacted into law on July 4, 2025, provides extensive federal tax policy changes impacting a multitude of industries, including commercial real estate (“CRE”). With respect to CRE,...more

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Big, Beautiful Changes to the Qualified Opportunity Zone Program

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As anticipated, President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”), which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, significantly amends Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the...more

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A New Chapter for Opportunity Zones

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The Opportunity Zone program (the “OZ Incentive Program”), launched under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was designed to spur economic development in distressed communities by offering tax incentives to investors. As part of...more

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Rural Historic Tax Credit Preservation Act Aims to Revitalize Small Markets

Last month, U.S. Senate Energy and Public Works Committee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) have reintroduced the bipartisan Rural Historic Tax Credit Preservation Act (S. 631). At a...more

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Bipartisan Bill Proposes Changes to Opportunity Zone Benefits

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If you acquired or built a senior living facility that is located in an opportunity zone, or are considering doing so, a recent bipartisan bill introduced in Congress proposes making changes to the opportunity zone rules. ...more

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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

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Final Regulations on Opportunity Zones

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On December 19, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) under section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code...more

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Final Regulations Clarify and Liberalize Many Rules Governing Qualified Opportunity Fund Formation and Operations

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 19, 2019, the U.S. Treasury issued final Qualified Opportunity Zone regulations (the “Final QOZ Regulations”). Subject to the commentary in the Preamble to the Final QOZ Regulations on circular...more

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Treasury Releases Final Regulations for Investing in Qualified Opportunity Zones

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On December 19, 2019, the Treasury Department released final regulations on the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Final regulations provide additional safe harbors...more

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Industry News Briefs

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Happy New Year! Did I Miss My Chance at Opportunity Zones? Opportunity zones were introduced in 2017 as part of President Trump’s tax reform bill. Taxpayers with capital gains can receive several tax benefits if the...more

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Treasury Releases Final Regulations On Qualified Opportunity Zone Program

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The U.S. Department of Treasury published Final Regulations for the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program on January 13, 2020, which answer many, but not all, of the questions arising from the Proposed Regulations released...more

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IRS Publishes Final Opportunity Zone Regulations

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On December 19, 2019, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released final regulations for the opportunity zone (“OZ”) program to refine and clarify certain aspects of the first two sets of proposed...more

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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

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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

K&L Gates LLP

Opportunity Zone Final Regulations: First Impressions - Final Rules Strive for Balance of Certainty and Flexibility for OZ...

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Almost exactly two years after enactment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Treasury has released final regulations on the Opportunity Zone (“OZ”) tax incentive. ...more

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Opportunity Zones: Opportunities for Whom?

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On December 22, 2017, Congress enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Tax Act”). The law created a new incentive to encourage long-term investment in the nation’s low-income areas. If a taxpayer invests eligible...more

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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

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The Wonderful Land of OZ: An Overview of Opportunity Zones

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Opportunity Zones (or OZs) may be the most talked about provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.  There are many twists and turns on the yellow brick road to completing an OZ project.  This article sets forth the...more

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Qualified Opportunity Zones: Additional Regulatory Guidance - TAX UPDATE Volume 2019, Issue 3

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In April, the Department of the Treasury released the much-anticipated second round of Treasury Regulations under section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code (April Regulations). This article provides certain highlights of...more

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Opportunity Zone Fundraising and Public Comment Update for 2019

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The advent of Opportunity Zones (OZ) offers players in the private finance and real estate communities a new way to enjoy tax incentives while helping economically distressed areas. Recently, the IRS and the Treasury...more

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Federal Tax Law Drafting Error Punishes Commercial Developers

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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law in December 2017, promised radical changes to the federal tax code. Many of its goodies were aimed at the real estate industry, but because of a critical drafting error, many...more

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Qualified Opportunity Fund Investments: Important Deadlines

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

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Opportunity Zone Digest - June 2019

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The OZ Digest is a regular update from the Polsinelli Opportunity Zones team. Our goal is to share everything opportunity zone (OZ) related from our team including firm and regulatory updates, events and thought leadership...more

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