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TREASURY RELEASES BIDEN TAX REFORM PROPOSAL

March 12, 2024 BACKGROUND The U.S. Treasury Department this afternoon released the “Green Book” [PDF 2 MB]. Treasury’s “General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals” (“Budget Proposal”) is a 256-page explanation of the tax proposals in the Biden Administration’s FY 2025 budget, also released and transmitted to Congress.  Most of the administration’s revenue proposals …

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FEDERAL COURT STRIKES DOWN CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Federal Court Strikes Down the Corporate Transparency Act as Unconstitutional March 4, 2024 On March 1, 2024, the federal judge presiding over the lone case testing the validity of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) struck down the CTA as unconstitutional. As our recent Client Update has explained, Congress imposed mandatory reporting obligations on certain companies …

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EXETER AWARD GIVEN TO KIRBY C. NIELSEN

Exeter Prize 2023 Winners We are happy to announce the winners of the 2023 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous calendar year in a peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Decision Theory. The winners are Kirby (Kempe) Nielsen (Caltech) and John Rehbeck (Ohio State University) for their paper “When choices are …

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HOUSE BILL BRINGS CONTINUED UNCERTAINTY

Dear Clients and Friends: Last Friday, November 19, 2021, the House of Representatives passed H.R 5376, The Build Back Better Act (the “Act”), which was introduced into the House on September 27, 2021: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr5376 Among many tax law changes, the bill reduces the estate, gift, and generation skipping tax exemptions in half- from approximately $12 …

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