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On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1 into law, the budget reconciliation bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act). As discussed in our prior alert released following the passage by the House of...more
Signed into law on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the "Act") permanently extends and modifies several cornerstone provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, restores key business incentives, and makes...more
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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “2025 Act”). The Act makes permanent some provisions originally enacted in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “2017 Act”),...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 1—referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA)—which permanently renewed and modified the federal Opportunity Zone tax incentive program that was set to expire at the...more
The race to remake portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) and to prevent expiration of certain Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions reached completion with Legislation signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025....more
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBB”) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 (such version, the “House Bill”) as part of the Republican Congress’s reconciliation package. The BBB generally...more
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