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Preserving Deferred Tax Assets in a Capital Raise
The 2010 Tax Relief Act and your estate plan
On July 4, 2025,, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) became law. The Act itself was almost 1,000 pages. It made many of the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent and included new federal tax provisions....more
On July 4, 2025, the President signed into law Public Law 119-21 (the “Act”). For individuals, the Act makes the tax rate cuts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“2017 TCJA”) permanent, and modifies and introduces additional...more
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 BBB). This legislation includes significant amendments to the excise tax imposed on...more
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
President Trump signed into law what is commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), extending provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 otherwise set to expire at the end of this year. The new...more
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for May 15, 2025 – June 2, 2025....more
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for May 2, 2025 – May 13, 2025. IRS GUIDANCE - May 2, 2025: The IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2025-20, providing...more
February 2025 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The February applicable federal rate (“AFR”) for use with a sale to a defective grantor...more
As part of its “America First Trade Policy,” the White House is exploring an arcane IRS provision that allows the United States to double the tax rates of foreign companies and individuals....more
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (the “TRA 86”) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 22, 1986, exactly 38 years ago today. TRA 86 was sponsored by, among others, Representative Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri) in...more
Former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy and political debates in Congress. In this episode of “The Cloakroom with...more
Former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy debates in Congress. In this episode of “The Cloakroom with Peter Roskam,”...more
The number of taxpayers seeking the benefits of Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) has picked up steam in recent years, particularly since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) lowered the federal corporate tax rates to...more
Qualified Small Business Stock (“QSBS”) is arguably one of the largest “gifts” Congress has given taxpayers by excluding from a shareholder’s gross income the greater of $10 million or 10 times the shareholder’s basis in the...more
This second installment of my multi-part series on Subchapter S is focused on two Code Sections, namely IRC Section 1375 and IRC Section 1362(d)(3)....more
The Long-Term View- Among its core functions, federal tax policy seeks to encourage those behaviors among businesses that, in the long run, will have a lasting positive effect upon the nation’s economy as a whole. ...more
Are you concerned about the high IRS tax rates on a foreign trust? It is important to understand the tax and reporting consequences on this specific type of investment. It may very well be time to evaluate the net value of...more
In a private letter ruling, the IRS concluded that the condemnation of public utility property is in effect a "retirement" or "disposition" that requires the elimination of accumulated deferred income taxes (ADIT) associated...more
On March 9, 2023, President Biden released his FY2024 budget (the “FY2024 Budget”), and the U.S. Treasury released the so-called “Green Book," which provides details related to the revenue provisions in the FY2024 Budget....more
The IRS has published Proposed Regulations clarifying that for purposes of the mark-to-market rules under section 1256, foreign currency contracts include only foreign currency forward contracts, and that the definition does...more
On March 28, the Biden Administration submitted its Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposals reflecting its budget and tax policy priorities, which could surface when Congress resumes work on budget reconciliation. While it is...more
A taxpayer taking a treaty-based return position is generally required to disclose that position, unless an exception applies. A treaty-based return position is a tax reporting position, maintaining that a U.S. tax treaty...more
...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
The House Committee of Ways and Means (the “House”) has been busy the last few days. Indeed, the House continues to mark up and work through potential revenue raisers (i.e., tax increases) to help pay for recent legislative...more
On September 13, 2021, the Congressional House Ways and Means Committee introduced 880 plus pages of legislative tax proposals to help fund the House’s proposed $3.5 trillion stimulus package. Below are tax proposals relevant...more