Current News and Developments Editor's Notebook Focus on IRS and Treasury State Tax Developments

EO Tax Journal 2018-207

1 – Message from the Editor

2 – Editor’s Notebook

3 – In the News

4 Brady Statement on Proposed Opportunity Zones Regulations

5 – Treasury and IRS Issue Proposed Regulations on New Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive (IR-2018-206)

6 Special Rules for Capital Gains Invested in Opportunity Zones (Rev. Rul. 2018-29)

7 – Pre-TCJA State Tax Credit Programs in Georgia Need Protection

8 – Community Foundations Say Proposed SALT Regs Will Adversely Affect Long-Established State Charitable Giving Tax Credits

Current News and Developments Editor's Notebook Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury State Tax Developments

EO Tax Journal 2018-202

1 – Editor’s Notebook

2 Tester, Wyden Lead Charge to Overturn Controversial Dark Money Rule

3 – Four AGs: Proposed SALT Regs ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’

4 New Jersey Senators: Proposed SALT Regs ‘Politically Motivated’

5 – North Dakota Association Opposed to Proposed SALT Regs

Current News and Developments Focus on Courts Focus on IRS and Treasury Transcripts (ABA EO Committee)

EO Tax Journal 2018-201

1 – Message from the Editor

2 Another EO Superstar

3 Freedom from Religion Foundation’s Atheist Relief Group Sues IRS over Tax Exemption

4 FFRF Supports Proposed Reg’s Position on Educational Scholarship Programs

5 Alex Reid’s Outline for ‘News from the IRS and Treasury’

Current News and Developments Focus on IRS and Treasury

EO Tax Journal 2018-199

1 Our Superstar Professors


2 – With Endowment Tax on the Horizon, Harvard Still Doesn’t Know How to File Its Returns

3 TIGTA: An Estimated 1,000 Referrals Related to Allegations of Impermissible Political Activity Not Forwarded to the IRS’s Political Activities Referral Committee for the Period July 2015 to August 2016

Current & Quotable Current News and Developments Editor's Notebook Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury

EO Tax Journal 2018-196

1 – Quote of the Week

2 – Wyden Reminds Rettig that He – Rettig — Is in Charge of IRS, Not Pence

3 – DAFs In the News

4 – Article of Interest

5 – Editor’s Notebook

6 – Outline for Unrelated Business Taxable Income and Current Developments in Enforcement Activity

Current News and Developments Editor's Notebook Focus on IRS and Treasury PLRs, TAMs, and Denial Letters

EO Tax Journal 2018-192

1 – Guidance Slowly Appearing for UBIT & Excess Compensation TCJA Provisions

2 – Hawley to Speak at University Chapel, Despite IRS Guideline

3 – Editor’s Notebook

4 – Applicant Formed Primarily to Develop and Manage Outdoor Digital Broadcast Space (Billboards) for a Fee Denied (c)(3) Status (Denial 201833032)