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BakerHostetler

[Podcast] An Analysis of the 2025 Federal Tax Changes Under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Legislation

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The Honorable Peter Roskam, Federal Policy Team Leader, and Jeff Paravano, Tax Group Chair, break down the 2025 tax reconciliation legislation. They explore how the new law preserves key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more

Cole Schotz

Salt Provisions In The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: A Mirage Rather Than A Panacea Of Relief For High-Income Earners

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On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law ushering in sweeping federal tax changes. The legislation notably expands the Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction for professionals...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New York State releases Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget

On January 21, 2025, New York Governor Hochul released her Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget and accompanying legislation (the Budget Bill). The Budget Bill includes a middle-class tax cut, a temporary personal income tax...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

State Taxes: What to Expect in 2025

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A changing tax landscape is on the horizon for the new year. Many of the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) are scheduled to expire at the end of the year. President-elect Trump has also proposed a variety...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

New IRS Unit Leverages AI to Step Up Partnership Audits; Hundreds of New Inquiries Expected

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The IRS’s simmering concern with pass-through entities is heating up, with IRA funds earmarked for increased personnel, AI, and other resources for partnership audits. ...more

Gray Reed

Phantom Income: The Spooky Side of Taxation

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There’s a hidden tax horror behind pass-through entities, cancellation of debt, and even prizes, winning, and awards: “phantom income.” It even sounds scary, right? And when it comes to one’s tax liability, it can be...more

Polsinelli

Beware, the IRS is Coming: More IRS Audits to Focus on High-Net Worth Individuals and Passthrough Entities

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After much anticipation, the IRS has finally announced a strategic operating plan to spend the nearly $80 billion in funds that it was allocated through the Inflation Reduction Act. Since this bill was signed, the new IRS...more

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$1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Drops the Hammer on Conservation Easements

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Only months after the U.S. Tax Court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the IRS failed to adhere to the Administrative Procedures Act when it promulgated Notice 2017-10 and designated most Syndicated Conservation...more

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California Provides Path to Deduct State Income Tax for Calculating Federal Tax [UPDATED]

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In IRS Notice 2020-75, the IRS invited the states to circumvent the $10,000 limit on the deduction of state taxes by individuals, trusts, and estates for purposes of calculating federal income tax by permitting the states to...more

Freeman Law

Syndicated Conservation Easements (and Other Tax Schemes) Beware

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Syndicated Conservation Easements - In an IRS news release of January 17, 2022, the IRS’s Office of Chief Counsel announced that plans to hire up to 200 additional attorneys “to help the agency combat syndicated...more

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Proposed Regulations Regarding the Aggregate Treatment for Pass-Through Owners of PFIC Stock

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On January 25, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) released regulations (the “Final Regulations”) finalizing provisions in prior proposed regulations which generally...more

Foster Garvey PC

The Oregon SALT Cap Workaround for Pass-Through Entities Is Finally Here – Governor Kate Brown Has Signed Senate Bill 727 Into Law

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Last fall, the IRS announced, with respect to pass-through entities (LLCs or other entities taxed as partnerships or S corporations), that, if state law allows or requires the entity itself to pay state and local taxes (which...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Wyden’s Billionaires Tax

On October 27, 2021, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released draft legislation that would, if enacted, tax the roughly 700 wealthiest Americans on a modified mark-to-market basis by requiring them to pay...more

Freeman Law

The Section 965 Transition Tax And IRS Audits

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Section 965 audits are on the rise. Taxpayers under section 965 transition tax audits often face significant potential liability exposure. The IRS previously announced an active “campaign” specifically targeting unpaid...more

Morgan Lewis

NJ Enacts Elective Pass-Through Business Tax to Limit Federal Cap Impact on SALT Deduction

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New Jersey recently enacted the “Pass-Through Business Alternative Income Tax Act,” which allows pass-through businesses with at least one member liable for the New Jersey gross income tax to make an election to pay income...more

Burr & Forman

The New Section 199A 20% Profit Deduction for Pass-Through Businesses: A Case Study: Court Reporters

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Congress enacted the new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for the owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain trusts. Section 199A is intended...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Alabama Legislature Passes Bill to Address Calculation of Credit for Taxes Paid to Other States - State & Local Tax Alert: Alabama...

Gov. Kay Ivey signed House Bill 384, into law last Wednesday, March 28, ending a debate that has lasted for almost a decade over the scope of the individual income tax credit for certain taxes paid to other states. ...more

Butler Snow LLP

Congress Fixes “Grain Glitch” Error in 199A

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On March 23, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (the “Appropriations Act”) was signed into law by President Trump. Included in the Appropriations Act were certain tax law provisions, including technical corrections to the...more

Lowndes

Time to Reconsider Your Choice of Entity?

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One of the most publicized changes made by last year’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act was a reduction in income tax rates for corporations and individuals. The maximum corporate tax rate has been permanently reduced from 35% to 21%,...more

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