Opportunity Zones

By Stephen K. Cooper

The Senate was gearing up Saturday to vote on a sweeping Republican budget resolution that would permanently renew expiring tax rates and business breaks, dismantle dozens of clean energy incentives and slash healthcare spending.

By Andrew McIntyre

As Congress debates President Donald Trump's budget bill, which would extend the opportunity zone program started in his Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Nelson Mullins has ramped up the firm's practice in anticipation of a steady flow of investment work there, one of the group's leaders told Law360 Real Estate Authority.

By Stephen K. Cooper

The Senate parliamentarian blocked key tax, healthcare and other provisions in the GOP's $3.8 trillion budget plan from qualifying for filibuster-proof votes on the Senate floor Friday, prompting Senate lawmakers to huddle with her behind closed doors into the evening.

By Stephen K. Cooper

A proposal designed to protect U.S. multinational corporations from paying higher taxes abroad will be stripped from the GOP's budget reconciliation bill pending an agreement with the Group of Seven nations announced Thursday by the U.S. Treasury Department, leaders of House and Senate tax committees said. 

By Kat Lucero

The top Senate Democratic tax writer vowed Tuesday to try to protect clean energy tax provisions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that would face an early repeal under the sweeping tax and budget legislation released by Republicans in the Senate Finance Committee.

By Asha Glover

The Senate Finance Committee's tax portion of the chamber's budget reconciliation bill released Monday follows the House's lead on some provisions while breaking with the lower chamber's hard-won compromises on an increased state and local tax deduction and the phaseout of green energy credits.