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Get to Work: New Treasury Guidance Changes Safe Harbors for Solar and Wind Tax Credits

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On August 15, the Treasury Department published long-awaited guidance on applicability of “beginning of construction” safe harbors for solar and wind projects under the One Big Beautiful Bill and Executive Order 14315. While...more

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Final Regulations on Opportunity Zones

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On December 19, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) under section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code...more

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Final Regulations Clarify and Liberalize Many Rules Governing Qualified Opportunity Fund Formation and Operations

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 19, 2019, the U.S. Treasury issued final Qualified Opportunity Zone regulations (the “Final QOZ Regulations”). Subject to the commentary in the Preamble to the Final QOZ Regulations on circular...more

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Treasury Releases Final Regulations for Investing in Qualified Opportunity Zones

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On December 19, 2019, the Treasury Department released final regulations on the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Final regulations provide additional safe harbors...more

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Opportunity Zone Final Guidance

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The Treasury Department released final Opportunity Zone regulations on December 19, which combine and clarify the prior two sets of guidance, as well as an FAQ summary....more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations Released

On Thursday, December 19th, the U.S. Department of Treasury released the long-awaited final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations (the “Final Regulations”). The Final Regulations and explanatory materials that span 544 pages,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

IRS Provides Additional Clarity Regarding Donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations - SALT Alert: Alabama Edition

On December 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations... that provide some good news and needed clarification for C corporations, individuals, and S corporations and other...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup September 23 – 27, 2019

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 23 – 27, 2019. September 24, 2019: The IRS issued a notice that provides a safe...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Highlights of New Opportunity Zone Regulations

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In April, the Department of the Treasury released the second round of regulations related to the opportunity zone program. Some highlights include... Originally published in Middle Market Growth, the official publication...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Treasury Department Issues Final Regulations Limiting Charitable Deductions – Potential Impact on Alabama Donors? - SALT Alert:...

Now that the dust has settled following the issuance of the final “SALT cap workaround” regulations by the Treasury Department, here’s a summary of those regulations, the IRS guidance issued in connection with the final...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup July 8 – 12, 2019

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of July 8 – 12, 2019. July 9, 2019: The IRS updated its frequently asked questions page for the...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

IRS Issues Additional Qualified Opportunity Zone Regulations

The Qualified Opportunity Zone (“QOZ”) regime introduced as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides three significant and distinct federal income tax benefits to encourage QOZ private investment: ..A taxpayer may...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

2nd Tranche of OZ Regulations

On April 16, 2019, Treasury issued its second set of proposed regulations (“OZ Regs 2”) regarding Section 14002 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The OZ Regs 2 are very helpful and answer a...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Treasury Provides Additional Guidance on Opportunity Zone Provisions

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 introduced Opportunity Zone Provisions, IRC Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2, as an incentive to encourage investment in low-income communities. The provisions allow taxpayers to defer tax on...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

OZ Update - The New Proposed Regulations Are Out - New Guidance on Eligibility for OZ Tax Benefits

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Last week, Treasury issued a second round of proposed regulations regarding Opportunity Zones?offering investors more clarity as to whether their investments in designated Opportunity Zones will qualify for current capital...more

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Guide to the Surprises Lurking in the QOZ Proposed Regulations

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While mid-April is typically associated by most with Tax Day, this year, April 2019, also became the month the highly awaited second round of Qualified Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulations were issued....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Status Report on IRS Guidance Limiting Charitable Contribution Deductions to Scholarship Granting Organizations - SALT Alert:...

Sometimes the law of unintended consequences is difficult to correct after the fact. The most recent example may be the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s $10,000 annual limitation on state and local tax deductions claimed by...more

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Op Funds Expand Deferral Paths for CRE Investors

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BOSTON — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created the Opportunity Zone program which provides real estate investors a new tool to defer gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets by investing those gains in a “Qualified...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Opportunity Zones Update

Background – In December 2017, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), Congress established a new tax incentive program to promote investment in certain low-income communities designated by the IRS as qualified...more

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New IRS Regulations for Mixed-Use Projects Financed With Tax-Exempt Bonds Have Practical Importance

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On October 27, 2015 the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service published final regulations concerning the treatment of “mixed-use” projects financed with tax-exempt bonds. These new regulations have significant...more

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