Under the Internal Revenue Code and the vast body of rules and regulations related thereto, certain tax benefits can significantly reduce the amount of taxes that a taxpayer may owe. The alternative minimum tax (AMT) applies to those taxpayers with…
As well as the trade provisions that were the bill’s focus, the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (H.R. 1295), signed into law in June of 2015, contains provisions regarding tax law. The Act revises several Tax Code provisions, and…
In June of 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court held in U.S. v. Windsor that provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) were unconstitutional. Prior to this ruling, Section 3 of DOMA required that, for purposes of federal enactments, marriage…