McDermott Will & Emery
Subscribe to McDermott Will & Emery's PostsSenate Democrats Propose Overhaul of Clean Energy Incentives
By Philip Tingle, Heather Cooper, Carl J. Fleming, Elle Hayes, Brian Moore and McDermott Will & Emery on Apr 23, 2021
Posted In Project Development and Finance, Renewables, Tax, U.S. Congress
US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Clean Energy for America Act (the Act), along with two dozen Democratic co-sponsors, on April 21, 2021. The Act will likely be a starting point for the Biden administration tax proposals intended to limit carbon emissions. The Act would change the current system for incentives...
Continue Reading
Final Section 468A Regulations Issued at Last
By Brian Moore and McDermott Will & Emery on Sep 11, 2020
Posted In Environmental, Tax
On September 4, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published in the Federal Register final regulations under section 468A of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) that address three issues raised by the nuclear electric industry concerning qualified nuclear decommissioning funds (“qualified funds”). These final regulations conclude a many...
Continue Reading
FERC Announces Tax Reform Actions and Eliminates Income Tax Allowance for Master Limited Partnerships
By McDermott Will & Emery and McDermott Will & Emery on Mar 23, 2018
Posted In FERC, Natural Gas, Power Markets, Project Development and Finance, Tax
FERC announced actions in response to the 2017 tax reform legislation and a revised income tax policy, which eliminates the income tax allowance for Master Limited Partnerships. Regulated entities should ensure that they comply with FERC’s orders regarding the treatment of income taxes and consider whether to file comments on the proposed rulemaking and notice...
Continue Reading
CDFI Fund Announces $7 Billion Allocation of New Markets Tax Credits
By K. Christy Vouri-Misso and McDermott Will & Emery on Nov 29, 2016
Posted In Project Development and Finance, Renewables, Tax
On November 17, 2016, the US Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced the largest single round award of New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations since the program’s creation in 2001. One hundred and twenty organizations, headquartered in 36 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, were awarded a...
Continue Reading
Comparison of Key Energy-Related Tax Provisions in the President’s 2015 Budget Proposal and the Camp and Baucus Proposals
By McDermott Will & Emery, Philip Tingle, McDermott Will & Emery and McDermott Will & Emery on Apr 14, 2014
Posted In Renewables, Tax, U.S. Congress
President Obama’s recently released budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year contains energy-related tax provisions that include a permanent extension of the production tax credit (PTC) and a provision making it refundable. The recently released discussion draft of the Tax Reform Act of 2014 from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp also contains...
Continue Reading
Baucus Proposes Reforms to Energy Tax Incentives
By Philip Tingle and McDermott Will & Emery on Dec 19, 2013
Posted In Environmental, Project Development and Finance, Renewables, Tax, U.S. Congress
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) released a proposal on December 18 that would streamline energy tax incentives to make them more predictable and technology-neutral. The proposal consolidates several different energy tax incentives into just two tax credits: one for electricity and one for transportation fuels. The proposed provisions would allow facilities placed in...
Continue Reading
Mexican Energy Reforms Bring E&P Opportunities and Much More
By McDermott Will & Emery on Dec 17, 2013
Posted In Natural Gas, Project Development and Finance
Last week the Mexican Congress approved legislation including Constitutional amendments that were approved by the required number of Mexican states on December 16 that will bring changes to the nation’s energy laws that exploration and production companies have hoped for ever since Mexico nationalized the oil and natural gas industry in 1938. But the legislature...
Continue Reading
D.C. Circuit Orders DOE to Stop Collecting Nuclear Waste Fee
By McDermott Will & Emery on Nov 21, 2013
Posted In Environmental
The D.C. Circuit issued an opinion this week in National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. United States Department of Energy ordering the Secretary of Energy to submit a proposal to Congress to change the nuclear waste fee to zero. Tuesday’s decision was the most recent in a string of court cases following the Obama...
Continue Reading
