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The Trump administration has hit the ground running with a whirlwind of policy changes and executive orders aimed at reshaping the federal government and fulfilling key campaign promises. In this rapidly evolving policy landscape, our highly qualified team stands ready to assist companies in navigating the intricate complexities of the new administration’s policies. With our deep government experience and strategic guidance, businesses can confidently adapt and continue to thrive in this dynamic environment. Our commitment to providing tailored solutions ensures that companies remain compliant and competitive, no matter how the political winds may shift.

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Shifting Ground: How IRS Notice 2025-42 Redefines When Construction Begins for Applicable Wind and Solar Facilities

August 25, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On August 15, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2025-42, consistent with Pres...

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Businesses Using Passthrough Entities Win Big in Trump Tax Bill

August 20, 2025 | In the News

Frost Brown Todd’s Mark F. Sommer, Elizabeth M. Ethington, and Kenneth Schwalbert Jr. authored...

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OBBBA Delivers Significant Benefits to High-Net-Worth Individuals

August 20, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

In my practice as part of our firm’s Wealth Planning and Family Office group, I work with many hig...

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DOJ’s Expanded Whistleblower Program Targets Immigration Violations

August 20, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

In a significant shift in enforcement strategy, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has expanded it...

Corporations Are Eligible to Issue Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) Only if They Satisfy Section 1202’s “Aggregate Gross Assets” Test

August 11, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Section 1202 permits a taxpayer to claim a gain exclusion in connection with the sale or exchange (i...

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Hip Hip Hooray, Bonus Depreciation Lives to See Another Day

August 8, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Depreciation plays a crucial role in real estate investing, directly impacting how much income inves...

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Section 1202 and QSBS: A Survey of States That Don’t Conform to the Federal Treatment

August 8, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code provides a capital gains exclusion for certain qualified s...

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What You Can Do: Improving Access, Engagement, and Opportunity in the Transportation Sector

August 7, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

In an industry that quite literally drives economies forward, the transportation sector faces a pivo...

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U.S. State Department Ends Broad Interview Waivers for Visa Applicants

August 4, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On July 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of State announced a significant policy change regarding nonim...

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Exploring the Role of Partnerships in Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) Planning

August 2, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Section 1202 provides an exclusion from capital gains when a stockholder sells qualified small busin...

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Best Practices for International Students Applying for F-1 Visas in 2025

July 31, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

As the school year approaches, international students will be attending U.S. consular appointments. ...

Banking System and Electronic Transfer for Business
PTET Already Making Waves? Indiana Releases Updated Guidance in Wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act

July 30, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has changed the game in the world of tax with respect to many...

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A Section 1202 Walkthrough: The Qualified Small Business Stock Gain Exclusion

July 22, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

*This article was updated in July 2025 to reflect the changes to Section 1202 under the One Big Beau...

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act Delivers Historic Win, Making New Market Tax Credits Permanent

July 21, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program has reached a historic milestone. After 25 years of proven...

Substantiating the Right to Claim QSBS Tax Benefits | Part 2

July 18, 2025 | Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS)

Section 1202 provides an exclusion from capital gains when a stockholder sells qualified small busin...

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What’s Going on with At Home? Breaking Down the Bankruptcy and Tariff Turmoil

July 18, 2025 | Publications

If you’ve ever wandered the aisles of At Home hunting for that perfect throw pillow or quirky wall...

Substantiating the Right to Claim QSBS Tax Benefits | Part 1

July 15, 2025 | Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS)

Section 1202 provides an exclusion from capital gains when a stockholder sells qualified small busin...

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One Big Beautiful Bill: Sports Betters and Gamblers Might Disagree

July 11, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed by President Donald Trump on July 4, contains a new development t...

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Top 10 Biggest Business Tax Breaks (and Hits) in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

July 11, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

With a name like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), you know two things right away: (1) it’s ...

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Executive Order on Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources

July 9, 2025 | Blogs

On July 7, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) directing federal agencies to implem...

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There is No Sunset in the Land of OZ – Opportunity Zones Renewed by One Big Beautiful Bill Act

July 7, 2025 | Blogs

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 1—referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”...

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act Cuts the Power: Phase‑Outs, Foreign‑Entity Restrictions, and Domestic Content in Clean‑Energy Credits

July 4, 2025 | Blogs

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 1—dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)...

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The One Big Beautiful Bill: Is PTET Alive? Congress’ Struggle with the Pass-Through Entity Tax: Final Edition

July 4, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On Tuesday, July 1, the United States Senate narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s One Big Be...

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act Enacts a Permanent Increase in the Estate and Gift Tax Lifetime Exclusion Amount for 2025 and Later Years

July 3, 2025 | Family Office

On July 3, 2025, and by a vote of 218 to 214, the U.S. House of Representative passed the Senate’s...

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act Doubles Down on QSBS Benefits for Startup Investors

July 3, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

After narrowly clearing the House on July 3, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act[1] (OBBBA) was signed in...

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End of E-Verify Alerts for Terminated Work Authorization Shifts Compliance Burden to Employers

July 1, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a change in how E-Verify ...

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Tariff Authority Tested: Court Rejects Trump’s Broad Use of Emergency Powers in Trade

May 30, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Prior to the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913—the amendment authorizing the imposit...

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D.C. Political News Round-Up | May 2025

May 30, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

D.C. Deep Dive In this month’s deep dive, Frost Brown Todd D.C. Partner-in-Charge Jonathan Mil...

Car Import Tariff and Economic Recession
Three Tax Issues Manufacturers Should Watch in 2025 Budget Bill

May 22, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On May 13, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to approve a $3.8 trillion tax bill that would m...

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The State of the CFPB Amid Reduction in Force Litigation

May 15, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been at the center of significant legal and oper...

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U.S. EPA Announces Retainment of MCLs for PFOA and PFOS and Intent to Rescind and Reconsider MCLs for Other PFAS

May 14, 2025 | PFAS Updates

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) announced today that it will keep the c...

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What Does the CFPB’s Withdrawal of Guidance Documents Mean for Bank Compliance

May 14, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On May 12, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the withdrawal of various...

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U.S. EPA Announces Nine-Month Delay for PFAS Reporting Period Under the Toxic Substances Control Act

May 13, 2025 | PFAS Updates

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has issued an interim final rule that d...

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New Restrictions on Vehicle Connectivity Systems and Automated Driving Systems with Links to China and Russia

May 2, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On January 16, 2025, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) introduced significant changes to 15 ...

Antitrust Developments Update for April 2025

April 30, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Updates from Prior Antitrust Developments Chamber Challenges New HSR Rules In our last antitrust dev...

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Managing Uncertainty: Regulatory Impacts on the Manufacturing Industry

April 30, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

At Frost Brown Todd’s inaugural FBT Connect™ Manufacturing event on April 8, experts opined on t...

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Trump’s New Executive Order Targeting Disparate Impact Liability May Target Fair Lending as Well

April 29, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled “Restoring Equality of Op...

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U.S. EPA Announces Major Actions to Combat PFAS Contamination

April 28, 2025 | PFAS Updates

After several quiet months for federal regulatory activity involving per- and polyfluoroalkyl substa...

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Navigating Nearshoring: Recent Trends and Future Outlook

April 25, 2025 | Publications

For many reasons, companies in the U.S. have recently invested significantly in “nearshoring,” r...

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Making Sense of Small Biz Fair Lending Compliance

April 24, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Starting this June, the first tier of small business lenders will begin collecting certain data to r...

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Public Finance: Adjusting to New Transportation and Infrastructure Priorities

April 15, 2025 | Publications

In uncertain times, it is best to focus on what is known. We are going to see significant changes in...

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Here Comes the Sun(set of the TCJA): Taking Advantage of the 2025 Exclusion Amounts

April 7, 2025 | Blogs

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”) brought significant changes to the federal estate an...

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D.C. Political News Round-Up for March 2025

March 31, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Keeping Up Government Shutdown Averted Congress narrowly avoided a partial government shutdown by pa...

Social Security Reform Legislation
Antitrust Developments Update for March 2025

March 26, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

FTC Announces Revised HSR Thresholds and Filing Fees The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adjusts the ...

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EEOC Lectures Employers About Unlawful DEI-Related Discrimination

March 25, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On March 19, 2025, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued two technical assistanc...

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Sick of ALJs? The New Right to Federal Court During Agency Prosecutions

March 18, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

Practitioners and scholars all agree that last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overhauled the adminis...

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Public Finance Municipal Bond, Disclosures and Tax Compliance Recap

March 17, 2025 | Publications

Frost Brown Todd’s (FBT) Public Finance Practice Group hosted its annual Public Finance 360° Semi...

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U.S. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada: Considerations for the North American Auto Industry

March 7, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

The North American tariff landscape seems to be changing by the hour, adding to the ongoing uncertai...

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D.C. Political News Round-Up | February 2025

February 13, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

D.C. Deep Dive In this month’s deep dive, D.C. Partner-in-Charge Jonathan Miller interviews Ma...

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Federal Investigators Are Auditing CMS – Is Your Practice at Risk?

February 10, 2025 | Blogs

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is under intense scrutiny as Elon Musk’s De...

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Navigating Trump’s New Tariffs: Impact Analysis and Mitigation Strategies

February 7, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

President Donald Trump’s February 1, 2025, executive orders directing the imposition of tariffs on...

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Approaching Deadlines for Compliance with Rule 1071 Fair Lending Requirements and Challenges to Enforcement

February 5, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On March 30, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule under Regulat...

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The Non-Compete Agreement Landscape in 2025

February 3, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

While non-compete agreements survived two federal agencies’ attempts to ban or deem them invalid i...

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President Trump Revokes 60-Year-Old Executive Order Requiring Affirmative Action in Federal Government Contracting

January 24, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order titled “Ending Illegal Disc...

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Immigration Update: The New H-1B Modernization Rule

January 23, 2025 | Presidential Administration Impacts

On January 17, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a final rule (“Ru...

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