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Join Shipman & Goodwin tax attorneys Louis Schatz and David Bigger for this complimentary webinar reviewing significant issues that the IRS addressed in the new Opportunity Zones regulations and the impact that the new set of regulations will have on Opportunity Zone investments, both from an investor
On May 1, 2019 the Connecticut General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding approved and sent to the Senate, Substitute Bill 877 (the “Bill”). Although the Bill will likely be amended prior to its adoption by the Senate and the House, the Bill represents the first significant piece of proposed tax legislation that
With less than three weeks left in the regular session of the Connecticut legislature, two bills that are pending and awaiting further action by the legislature, if signed into law, would represent tax relief for Connecticut taxpayers who are paying for the care of their relatives in need of long-term/home health care, or who have
Assisting employees who are struggling with student loan debt is an emerging priority for many employers. Following the Internal Revenue Service’s release in August 2018 of a private letter ruling, widely thought to have been requested by Abbott Laboratories, that permits the employer to “match” student loan repayments in the company’s 401(k) plan, there have
Join Shipman & Goodwin tax attorneys Louis Schatz and David Bigger for this complimentary webinar reviewing significant issues that the IRS addressed in the new Opportunity Zones regulations and the impact that the new set of regulations will have on Opportunity Zone investments, both from an investor and a developer perspective.
Shipman & Goodwin attorney Richard Cohen will be a speaker at the “Employee Benefit Plans Conference” presented by the Connecticut Society of CPAs. He will present the session “Legal Issues facing Qualified Retirement Plans and Plan Sponsors in 2019.”
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The Internal Revenue Service released its highly anticipated second set of Qualified Opportunity Zone regulations on April 17, 2019. This new set of regulations answers many questions that were left open following the release of the first set of regulations last year, but the regulations also leave certain issues unresolved.
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Although Section 408(d)(8) has been part of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) for more than 10 years, and provides for a popular benefit by enabling persons who are older than age 70 ½ to make charitable contributions (up to $100,000 for a taxable year) by directing that all or any portion of their required minimum
Connecticut is one of five states that, in recent years, has implemented an “auto-IRA” program, in which private employers automatically deduct a set amount from their employees’ paychecks and contribute that amount to an individual retirement account established through the state system. The Connecticut Retirement Security Exchange (the “Exchange”), along with similar programs in California,
According to recent reports, the much anticipated second set of Opportunity Zone proposed regulations should be released by the Internal Revenue Service within the next couple of weeks. Bloomberg News reported on Monday, March 18, 2019 that the Internal Revenue Service sent the proposed regulations to the White House’s regulatory review office on March 12,