Below are questions submitted by the audience during our webinar Window of Opportunity: The IRS Issues Initial Guidance on Qualified Opportunity Zone Rules. The webinar was on November 2, 2018. Here’s the presentation from the webinar and our whitepaper on
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Hawaii: Solar System is Not Placed in Service Until All State Law Requirements Have Been Satisfied
In September, the State of Hawaii Department of Taxation issued a letter ruling (Hawaii Letter Ruling No. 2018-01) that clarified the “placed in service” requirement in the application of the Renewable Energy Technologies Income Tax Credit (“RETITC”) in Hawaii. A…
Tax Equity Webinar Q&A
Below are answers to questions we received during our tax equity webinar of October 23. These questions were submitted online during the webinar. The presentation from the webinar is available here.
Question: Commercial and industrial (C&I) has higher returns but…
NREL’s 2018 PV Project Finance Report
David Feldman and Paul Schwabe of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have published their annual solar PV financing report: Terms, Trends, and Insights on PV Project Finance in the United States, 2018. I am pleased to have been…
Maryland Energy Administration Adopted New Regulations for Energy Storage System Income Tax Credit Program
In 2017, Maryland, with Governor Larry Hogan’s (R) support, became the first state in the country to launch a tax credit program for energy storage systems. In September, 2018, Maryland Energy Administration adopted new regulations that clarified certain qualifications of…
Power Finance & Risk – Tax Equity Roundtable 2018 Report
We were pleased to participate in Power Finance & Risk’s (PFR) Tax Equity Roundtable. We were joined in the roundtable discussion by Rich Dovere of C2 Energy Capital, Marshal Salant of Citi, Kathyrn Rasmussen of Capital Dynamics Clean Energy and…
Presentation from Qualified Opportunity Zone Webinar
Here’s the presentation on the Qualified Opportunity Zone rules that was used in today’s webinar. It addresses the Qualified Opportunity Zone proposed regulations and revenue ruling that the IRS released on October 19 that are discussed in our previously posted …
Qualified Opportunity Zone Webinar on November 2
On October 19, 2018, the US Internal Revenue Service released initial guidance on the Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) rules. The QOF rules allow US taxpayers to defer capital gain taxation by investing an amount equal to the gain in a…
Presentation from Tax Equity Webinar: Structuring, New Trends, Challenges & Advice
Mayer Brown’s David K. Burton and Jeffrey G. Davis both Tax Transactions & Consulting partners and part of the firm’s Renewable Energy group co-hosted a heavily attended webinar on how tax reform is impacting the tax equity market and certain…
Qualified Opportunity Zone Regulations White Paper: a Window of Opportunity
Here’s a link to Mayer Brown’s white paper – Window of Opportunity: the IRS Releases Initial Guidance on Qualified Opportunity Zone Rules. The white paper discusses the proposed regulations and a revenue ruling that were released by the IRS…