In this Ropes & Gray podcast, Brittany Cvetanovich, an associate in the tax group, is joined by Kat Gregor, tax partner and co-founder of the tax controversy group, to discuss a notable Supreme Court decision, South Dakota v. Wayfair. On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Wayfair that the State of South Dakota may constitutionally require large online retailers without actual physical presence in the state to collect and remit sales tax.
Omnibus Appropriations Legislation Enacts Technical Corrections to Newly Effective Partnership Audit Rules
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23, 2018 included several technical corrections to the new partnership audit regime (the “Technical Corrections”), originally enacted in 2015, that goes into effect for partnership taxable years beginning in 2018.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”). Continue Reading Omnibus Appropriations Legislation Enacts Technical Corrections to Newly Effective Partnership Audit Rules
Tax Reform: Key Provisions for Tax-Exempt Organizations
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 a number of provisions relevant to tax-exempt organizations, and many provisions contained in earlier versions of the legislation have been eliminated.