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In Tax Notes, tax partner Kat Gregor, tax counsel Brittany Cvetanovich and Elizabeth Smith, and associates Maggie Heine and Michelle Perry offer a response to a recent article in the publication concerning whether damages in a civil suit that alleges sexual abuse or rape are includible in the recipient’s taxable income. The Ropes &

In this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Disputing Tax, Franziska Hertel, an associate in the tax practice, is joined by Kat Gregor, a tax partner and tax controversy group co-founder, and Brittany Cvetanovich, counsel in the tax practice, to discuss a recent Federal Circuit case, Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. v. United

The omnibus appropriations bill signed into law on March 23, 2018 included several technical corrections to the new partnership audit regime (the “Technical Corrections”), originally enacted in 2015, that goes into effect for partnership taxable years beginning in 2018. Many of the Technical Corrections were included in a technical corrections bill proposed in 2016 but never enacted. Other changes echo proposed regulations promulgated in 2017, giving legislative authority to those rules. Key among the Technical Corrections are authorization to use a push-out procedure in tiered partnerships, a new “pull-in” procedure, and rules governing partnerships that do not pay assessments following an audit. Note that the omnibus bill generally did not include technical corrections relating to the tax reform legislation enacted in December 2017 (with one exception to address the so-called “grain glitch”).
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After much uncertainty surrounding competing bills, the House of Representatives voted to pass comprehensive tax reform legislation (the “Act”) on December 20, 2017, shortly after the Senate passed the measure. The Act will now be sent to President Trump’s desk, and it is expected that he will sign the bill into law. The Act contains