After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, some plan sponsors are considering providing reimbursement for travel costs for medical plan participants who are no longer legally permitted obtain abortions.
We previously provided an overview of the time limits imposed on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for assessing federal tax. The general rule is that the IRS must assess tax within.
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Infrastructure Act”), which provides for $550 billion in new federal spending on.
Mylan Inc. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (U.S. Tax Court April 27, 2021)
Under the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 162, ordinary and necessary business expenses are deductible, but Code Section 263 disallows a deduction for capital expenditures (“no deduction shall be allowed” for a capital expenditure). Capital expenditures must be capitalized and are generally recovered as depreciation or amortization deductions over a period of years. “Ordinary” expenses are those “customary or usual within a particular trade” and “necessary” if they are appropriate and helpful to the business’ operation. For a typical patent infringement litigation, the litigation costs to both the patentee and the alleged infringer are considered ordinary business expenses, not capital expenses.
Monday, December 28, 2020
On November 16, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2020-82 (the Notice), to further extend the deadline for required minimum contributions for single-employer defined benefit pension plans that would otherwise be due during the 2020 calendar year, from January 1, 2021, to January 4, 2021. On the same day, the PBGC issued complementary guidance, in Technical Update 20-2 (the PBGC Update), to reflect the January 4, 2021, deadline established by the IRS in the Notice when calculating variable-rate premiums.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) previously established a January 1, 2021, deadline for certain required minimum contributions that would otherwise be due during the 2020 calendar year. This pension funding holiday applies for contributions to single-employer defined benefit pension plans required under Section 430(j) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code). Under Code Section 430(j), sing