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Morrison & Foerster LLP

One Big Beautiful Bill Expands Qualified Small Business Stock Exemptions

President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”) on July 4, 2025 (the “Signing Date”). Among the Act’s significant tax extensions and changes to tax law are several taxpayer-favorable revisions to...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Analysis of Key Provisions for Investment Funds and Sponsors

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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 following the passage by the House of...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Understanding Section 1202: The Qualified Small Business Stock Exemption

The “qualified small business stock” (QSBS) tax exemption under Section 1202 allows non-corporate founders and investors in certain emerging growth companies to potentially exclude up to 100 percent of the U.S. federal...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

President Trump Seeks to End Carried Interest Tax Preference

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President Trump met with Republican lawmakers on Thursday, February 6, 2025, to outline his tax priorities, including extending the 2017 tax cuts and expanding the state and local tax deduction. Also included among the...more

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Taxation of Foreign Currency Transactions Part II: Gains, Losses, Personal Transactions, and Electing Out of Section 988

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Are all foreign currency gains taxable? No. Under a de minimis exemption individual taxpayers with foreign currency gains of $200 or less on a “personal transaction” do not need to report them....more

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Taxation of Foreign Currency Transactions Part I: Definitions and Rules for Taxing Foreign Currencies

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Navigating the federal taxation of foreign currency can be compared to trying to cross a perilous sea. Both involve unexpected rough patches, serious difficulties, and frustrating complexity....more

Burr & Forman

Changes in Tax Rates for 2023

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The IRS has issued Revenue Procedure 2022-38, which sets forth inflation-adjusted items for various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code which will be applicable in 2023. Here are some of the highlights...more

Foster Garvey PC

House of Representatives 5376: Current Tax Legislation Pending in the U.S. House of Representatives

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...The federal tax laws are certainly about to change. With the need to raise revenue as a top priority for the Biden Administration, everyone is expecting dramatic changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Tax legislation is...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Impact of House Ways and Means Tax Proposals for Trusts, Estates, and Retirement Accounts

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In this second blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax proposals, we address the proposed changes that will affect the taxation of trusts, estates, and retirement plans. As we discussed, on September 13, 2021, the...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Better Act Before The Build Back Better Act

It is said that two things are certain in life: death and taxes. True, but incomplete. What is missing from this short list is a third inevitable occurrence – tax law changes. We now have a new and pressing series of proposed...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Carried Interests in the Crosshairs (Again)

Democrats have proposed a bill to tax carried interests at ordinary income rates. Under current law, fund managers generally recognize income or gain in respect of their carried interests only when the fund sells assets that...more

Freeman Law

So You Made Money on GameStop, Now What? A Primer on Capital Gains

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The GameStop stock saga will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most mystifying market events Wall Street has ever seen. Indeed, the markets have seen a massive influx of new retail investors into the space. But...more

Bowditch & Dewey

GameStop, Taxes, and the Next Trade

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It appears the wild ride for traders in GameStop (GME) stock has ended with shares trading at a fraction of what they were trading just a few weeks ago. Shares which once soared from around $20 a shares to a high of $380, as...more

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Tax Proposals of President-Elect Biden and Other Prominent Democrats

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This blog summarizes some of the tax proposals of President-elect Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats. Biden’s Proposals - Increased Individual Tax Rate - Biden would increase the top marginal income tax rate...more

Jackson Walker

Tax Planning for a Biden Presidency

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This past November, we outlined selected tax law changes that President-elect Joe Biden has proposed, both in speaking engagements and on his campaign website, some or all of which could be enacted in 2021 or future years. ...more

Jackson Walker

Tax Planning for a Biden Presidency

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With Biden as the projected President-Elect (subject to pending federal litigation and the Electoral College vote), tax planning for late 2020, 2021, and beyond is top of mind for many businesses and individuals....more

Cozen O'Connor

Proposed Regulations Provide Guidance for the Carried Interest Rules — Six Important Takeaways

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On Friday, July 31, 2020, the IRS released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Regulations) setting forth guidance under Code Sec. 1061, the so-called “carried interest” rules. The carried interest rules under Code Sec....more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

Take a bow for the new revolution, and don’t let the same tax mistakes fool you again

As we enjoy the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2020, it has been great to catch up with executives, investors, and entrepreneurs working to build the next technology ideas into successful companies. It is interesting to think...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup December 16 – 20, 2019

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 16 – 20, 2019. December 16, 2019: The IRS released a notice extending the phase-in...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup May 6 – 10, 2019

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of May 6 – 10, 2019. May 7, 2019: The IRS released Revenue Procedure 2019-22 updating Revenue...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Key 2019 Estate Trust and Medicaid Long Term Care Planning Figures

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2019 Key Pennsylvania Figures - Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Rates: Transfers between spouses - 0% (jointly held property between spouses is not subject to tax). Transfers from child 21 or under to parent - 0%. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

A Comparison of the House and Senate Tax Bills

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It has been a busy week in Washington, D.C., as Congress works its way through tax reform. The House Ways and Means Committee completed its "markup" of the House bill this week, paving the way for a floor vote on the measure...more

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