Unpacking the big beautiful international tax provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill
Posted on May 20, 2025 in Legal Alerts
Although the majority of the tax bill introduced by the House Committee on Ways and Means on May 12, 2025 is focused on the Administration’s domestic agenda, the bill includes some material changes to the international tax rules, as well as a change to the Tariff Act of 1930 (Tariff Act). The international tax changes include: A new section 899 regarding the imposition of unfair taxes...
Legal Alert: Exempt organization revenue raisers under House tax bill
Posted on May 16, 2025 in Legal Alerts
On May 12, 2025, the Republicans from the House Committee on Ways and Means released an updated draft tax bill. Several of the provisions in the draft would affect tax-exempt organizations. The bill will almost certainly undergo additional changes before it can be passed by both chambers of Congress. Our legal alert, found here, summarizes the principal provisions affecting tax-exempt...
Legal Alert: House tax bill proposes major changes to the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC)
Posted on May 16, 2025 in Legal Alerts
On May 12, 2025, the Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means introduced a broad tax reform bill that includes sweeping changes to the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), also commonly known as the ERC. Chief among them are targeted enforcement actions against ERTC promoters as well as a proposal to retroactively disallow ERTC claims filed after January 31, 2024, a move...
The one, big, beautiful benefits legal alert
Posted on May 15, 2025 in Employee Benefits, Legal Alerts
The House’s new tax legislation titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill” covers a number of potential changes to US benefits items, including: Increasing child care credits for certain employers and making paid family and medical leave tax credits permanent. Allowing on-site health clinics to be fully HSA-compliant, as well as a number of other changes to HSAs. Amending the Section 162(m)...
Legal Alert: House tax bill proposes changes to information reporting rules
Posted on May 15, 2025 in Legal Alerts
On May 14, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” containing the tax provisions destined for the budget reconciliation package. Several of the bill’s provisions would affect information reporting and withholding requirements. As expected, the bill would reinstate the de minimis threshold for Form 1099-K reporting by third party settlement...
Legal Alert: House confirms favorable modifications to three key business tax provisions
Posted on May 14, 2025 in Legal Alerts
On May 12, 2025, the Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means released a draft bill showing their tax plan for the budget reconciliation legislation. The legislation will likely undergo significant changes as it works its way through the broader House membership and Senate. Among the myriad of new and revised provisions, the bill contains favorable updates to three key...
Legal Alert: Inflation Reduction Act imposes a nondeductible 1% excise tax on certain corporate stock buybacks
Posted on Aug 23, 2022 in Legal Alerts
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the IRA) into law. Among the provisions of the IRA is a nondeductible 1% excise tax on the repurchase of corporate stock (the Buyback Tax). The Buyback Tax is directly levied on repurchasing corporations, which means that corporations that currently have, or are considering, the adoption of stock buyback...
Legal Alert: Signed, sealed, delivered – Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act enacting “new” corporate minimum tax
Posted on Aug 17, 2022 in Legal Alerts
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the IRA) into law. Among the most notable IRA provisions is a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax on corporations with book profits exceeding $1 billion effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022 (the AMT). Originally a provision of the now-defunct Build Back Better Act, the AMT was...
Legal Alert: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 signed into law – A summary of the energy tax provisions
Posted on Aug 16, 2022 in Energy Tax, Legal Alerts
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act) was signed into law on August 16, 2022, and includes about $370 billon for American energy security and climate change. Those changes include very substantial extensions, expansions and modifications of the tax credits for renewable and alternative energy development. In one of the best-kept secrets in Washington, Senators Manchin...
Legal Alert: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – The energy tax provisions you need to know about
Posted on Aug 4, 2022 in Legal Alerts
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act) runs 725 pages and includes numerous energy tax provisions aimed at enhancing US. energy security. The Act, if enacted, would extend and expand the renewable and alternative energy tax credits, shift to technology neutral credits in 2025, provide for US energy component manufacturing credits and modify the rules for electric vehicle tax...
Legal Alert: Inflation Reduction Act targets carried interests
Posted on Jul 30, 2022 in Legal Alerts
On July 27, US Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced proposed legislation referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act). The proposed legislation includes changes that would expand the scope of IRC section 1061, which generally imposes limits on tax benefits available to carried interests and other compensatory partnership interest arrangements. Read the full...
Legal Alert: Back from the dead – Corporate minimum tax resurfaces at eleventh hour in Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
Posted on Jul 29, 2022 in Legal Alerts
On July 27, 2022, the Senate announced agreement on a reconciliation package entitled the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the IRA), the artist formerly known as the Build Back Better Act (the BBBA). Although months ago the $2 trillion BBBA was declared dead, Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer introduced the skinnied-down $739 billion proposal Wednesday, with its submission to the...
Legal Alert: A welcome clean energy surprise – Inflation Reduction Act includes energy tax extensions and expansions
Posted on Jul 29, 2022 in Legal Alerts
In a surprising turn of events, late on July 27, 2022, Senators Manchin (D-WV) and Schumer (D-NY) released the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The Act, which runs 725 pages, includes numerous energy tax provisions aimed at enhancing US energy security. Tax pay-fors in the bill include a corporate minimum tax and an increase in the tax rate on carried interest. A...
Legal Alert: An incomplete picture: Democratic senators release “framework” for international tax overhaul
Posted on Aug 31, 2021 in International Tax, Legal Alerts
On August 25, 2021, Senate Finance Committee members Wyden, Brown, and Warner released draft bill language and a section-by-section summary of their proposed International Tax Reform Framework. The legislative language is generally in line with the International Tax Overhaul proposals first released by the Senators on April 5, 2021. The draft legislation includes some provisions...
Legal Alert: Downsizing from a House to a Manchin: Federal and International tax negotiations continue
Posted on Jul 8, 2021 in Legal Alerts
As Congress and the White House look to make a deal on infrastructure by this summer, negotiations regarding changes in the tax law continue. Since our prior alert, while progress has been made regarding a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a minimum global tax, the details of most corporate tax proposals have yet to be decided. Of course, the most pressing question remains –...