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A recognized tax attorney and advisor, Doug counsels businesses on complex tax structures and guides nonprofits on tax exemption. Doug’s deep experience in tax law includes practical strategies for clients regarding mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, workouts (in and out of bankruptcy), recapitalizations, divestitures, spin-offs, entity formations as well as all forms of capital-raising activities. He assists corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, ranging in size from startups to multinational public corporations. Additionally, Doug is known as a leader in matters of qualified opportunity funds and their tax benefits, counseling funds, their managers and investors on the planning, structuring and implementation of qualified opportunity funds.

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Direct pay proposals contained in the proposed Build Back Better Act promise to establish a system that would allow renewable energy developers to elect to receive ITC and PTC tax credits as a refundable credit. This would allow developers, who, under the current system, usually cannot efficiently utilize the non-refundable ITC and PTC credits due to not having sufficient tax liability to offset all of the otherwise available credits. This blog has covered the direct pay proposal in greater detail here.
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Continue Reading Direct Pay: A Conversation with Shannon Maher Bañaga, Spokesperson, The Partnership for Clean Energy Investment

Under current law, there are significant tax benefits for renewable energy projects in the United States.  These benefits include nonrefundable ITC and PTC tax credits and depreciation deductions.  From the perspective of a renewable energy developer, however, such tax benefits may be difficult to use effectively.  Currently, ITC and PTC tax credits are nonrefundable, meaning that developers with tax liability lower such credit will face difficulties effectively utilizing such excess credit.  Developers face a similar problem with depreciation deductions, as these will only operate to reduce taxable income.  If a developer does not have enough taxable income to utilize these depreciation deductions, it will be difficult to effectively utilize such excess.
Continue Reading Direct Pay Proposals in the Build Back Better Act and Observations from Industry Insiders

Tax considerations are one of the main drivers for renewable energy projects. This fall, Husch Blackwell’s Energy and Natural Resources team hosted a webinar that explored the available federal and state credits, abatements, incentives, and in some cases, specialty taxes that affect the profitability of renewable energy projects. During the program, we received a number of questions worth sharing with our blog subscribers that are navigating tax issues on their renewable energy projects. This article addresses those questions.
Continue Reading Digging Deeper: Tax Considerations for Renewable Energy Projects