First 60 Days of the Trump Administration: Food and Agriculture Policy
Business Better Podcast: Manufacturing Moment - Manufacturers’ Priorities for the New Administration
Death, Taxes and Politics: The Future of Tax Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Spotlight Series: A Celebration of Pride Month With IRS Veteran De Lon Harris
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Gearing Up for Pillar Two
#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS in Review, Biden Acts to Limit Non-Competes, NY HERO Act Model Safety Plans - Employment Law This Week®
SCOTUS Watch: The ACA and Key Health Law Areas Justice Barrett Could Impact - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
2020 Presidential Candidates' Tax Proposals
Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
Podcast: Texas v. United States of America
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
Investment Management Update – Exit Strategies
Podcast: Illinois Tool Works Inc. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Taking Advantage of Opportunity Zones: A Panel Discussion
[WEBINAR] Labor & Employment Law: What Changed in 2017
Impact of Tax Reform on Charitable Giving
Lawyers on Tap: Tap Tips for Entity Formation and Taxation
Podcast - New Unrelated Business Taxable Income Liability for Providing Certain Fringe Benefits
Life Sciences Quarterly: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Implications for Life Science Business
On May 12, 2025, the House Committee on Ways and Means (WMC) released a draft of the tax provisions of the highly anticipated budget reconciliation bill, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBB), and on May 14,...more
Our “GILTI Conscience” team was joined by colleagues Paul Oosterhuis and Eric Sensenbrenner to discuss what companies can expect now that Pillar Two implementation is becoming a reality. ...more
In this final blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax Bill, we address the international tax proposals in the Bill, JCX-43-21. The international tax proposals are fewer in number than the domestic and transfer tax...more
We invite you to join us for our Tax in the City®: A Women’s Tax Roundtable in Seattle. We plan to discuss, among other topics, post-TCJA tax treatment of foreign branches (and disregarded entities), new BEAT guidance, an...more
The U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA), which was enacted at the end of 2017, dramatically changed the U.S. cross-border tax regime. Many of the TCJA's international tax reforms that have received considerable attention...more
Mark your calendars for our spring 2020 Tax in the City®: A Women’s Tax Roundtable in Seattle—a forum for women tax professionals to discuss technical state, federal and international tax issues in a collegial and...more
IRC Section 965 (Treatment of Deferred Foreign Income Upon Transition to Participation Exemption System of Taxation) was part of the TCJA enacted on December 22, 2017. ...more
Two years after the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the most significant tax reform enacted in a generation, taxpayers continue to encounter substantial uncertainty arising from interpretations of new statutory...more
On November 4, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a new Large Business and International (LB&I) compliance campaign regarding Section’s 965 transition tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This is one of...more
In This Issue - Tax Tidbit - - IRS by the Numbers LegislativeLowdown - - Stayin' Alive - TCJA: Tax Cuts, Joking Around? - The Retirement Exchange - Mnuchin's Special Measures - Build That Bureau ...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act added section 951A to the Internal Revenue Code. This new section requires a U.S. shareholder of a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) to include in gross income the shareholder’s Global Intangible...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has far-reaching implications for the banking and finance industry. In our very first Bracewell Tax Report, we noted certain issues that companies might consider when evaluating their...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) will significantly impact merger and acquisition (“M&A”) activity. Although billed as tax reform, the TCJA did not reform or simplify the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”). Virtually none of...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced several complex, hard to understand international tax provisions to the Internal Revenue Code. One of them is the tax on Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI). Beginning with...more
How did a section of the Internal Revenue Code destined for repeal by both the House and Senate versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act survive the final Act? Our International Tax Group examines the future application of...more
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1 (Pub. L. No. 115-97), known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”). The Act is the first major overhaul of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) in more than 30...more
This post outlines at a high-level certain provisions under the recently enacted 2017 tax legislation (Pub. L. 115-97, the “Tax Act”) that may affect M&A Transactions. Some of these rules are very complex, particularly in...more
The recently enacted 2017 tax act (originally called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – “Tax Reform Act”) contains sweeping changes to US international tax rules that will affect international businesses and cross border...more
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which includes numerous changes that will significantly impact mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Although the TCJA has rightly been...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law on December 22, 2017, represents the biggest change to U.S. tax law since adoption of the 1986 Code. In addition to rate cuts and various individual and corporate reforms, the Act...more
On December 15, 2017, Congress released its final version of tax reform – the Conference Report Bill (the Bill). The Bill was signed into law by President Trump on December 22, 2017....more
President Donald Trump signed the U.S. tax reform bill previously entitled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on December 22, 2017, enacting comprehensive U.S. tax reform with most provisions becoming effective starting on...more
Summary: - On December 15, Congress released its final version of Tax Reform – the Conference Report Bill (the Bill). The Bill was signed into law by President Trump on December 22. ...more