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In welcome news for individual taxpayers, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act temporarily increases the “SALT cap” – the limit on the amount of the income tax deduction for state and local income, sales, and property taxes – from...more
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In this fourth installment of my multi-part series on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”), Steve Nofziger and I discuss a provision of the Act that impacts pass-through business entities and their owners, Code Section...more
The commercial real estate landscape is undergoing one of its most significant policy overhauls in years. The recently enacted “One Big Beautiful Bill” brings sweeping changes to tax incentives, financing rules, and...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the most significant US tax overhaul since the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The OBBBA includes critical changes impacting family offices,...more
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On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBB”) as part of the Republican Congress’s reconciliation package. The BBB generally extends certain tax provisions of the 2017...more
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Smith v. Commissioner, a pending research credit case in the United States Tax Court, presents an issue of first impression: Is a partner’s self-employment income in a partnership allowable as a qualified research expense...more
On January 10, 2025, the United States Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") released final regulations (the "Final Regulations") under section 6011 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), that identify...more
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Mediante reciente Sentencia 26085 del 30 de agosto de 2024, el Consejo de Estado de Colombia declaró la anulación parcial de la doctrina de la Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) que concluía que el socio...more
On June 17, 2024, the Treasury Department launched “a new regulatory initiative to close a major tax loophole exploited by large, complex partnerships.”[1] The loophole: partnership basis-shifting transactions....more
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