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The Corporate Transparency Act Takes Effect January 1, 2024: What Businesses Need to Know and How to Prepare for the New FinCEN Regulations
UPDATE: On December 3, 2024, a Federal District Court issued a nationwide injunction barring enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act and ruling that companies "need not comply" with the January 1, 2025 reporting deadline. Read our December 2024...
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First Take on the Admissions Decisions—with More to Come
Digesting Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Supreme Court Case Nos. 20-1199 and 21-107 (June 29, 2023) is going to take time. Our education law team will provide more substantial insight in due course, ho...
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Much Ado about Taxes: OLCC Releases Proposed Tax Compliance Rules
Tax policy is an interesting animal and odd results occur whenever non-tax people get involved in developing tax policy. Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) are jumping into the tax policy waters. Their inv...
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Washington’s New Capital Gains Excise Tax: An Income Tax by Another Name
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The Washington State Supreme Court recently upheld an excise tax on the privilege of selling capital assets within the State of Washington. The Court upheld the new tax over concerns tha...
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SECURE 2.0 Act Impacts Employer Retirement Plans
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 into law, which included the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”). SECURE 2.0, which contains over 90 provisions and builds upon the Setting Every Community Up fo...
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PFAS Year-End Review: EPA Lays Groundwork for Tighter Regulatory Scrutiny
2022 was a foundational year for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) planned actions to regulate per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under its PFAS Strategic Roadmap (Roadmap). Since issuing its Roadmap in October 2021, EPA has set ou...
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