A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the estate tax as in effect in 2009, and for other purposes.

H.R.32: To provide for a credit for certain health care benefits in determining the minimum wage. H.R.126: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets. H.R.298: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow amounts in a health flexible spending arrangement that are unused during a plan year to be carried over to the next plan year. H.R.527: To help American families save, invest, and build a better future, and for other purposes. H.R.640: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit financial institutions to determine their interest expense deduction without regard to tax-exempt bonds issued to provide certain small loans for health care or educational purposes. H.R.666: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that amounts paid for employer-provided coverage under accident or health plans be included on W-2 Forms. H.R.892: To establish and provide for the treatment of Individual Development Accounts, and for other purposes. H.R.1672: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny qualified dividend income treatment to certain foreign dividends. H.R.1748: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of employee athletic facility use. H.R. 2163: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand incentives for saving. H.R. 2205: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. H.R.2834: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services. H.R.3221: A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes. H.R. 3475: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5 million, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the one-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3694: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide corporate alternative minimum tax reform. H.R. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the costs of implementing wellness programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 3923: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain foreign nonqualified deferred compensation. H.R. 3947: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a carryforward of unused benefits in health flexible spending arrangements. H.R. 3970: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. H.R. 3975: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 100 percent deduction for the health insurance costs of individuals. H.R. 3996: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. H.R. 4172: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule and to increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $3.5 million. H.R. 4195: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections.H.R. 4235: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax, to repeal the carryover basis rule, to reduce estate tax rates by 20 percent, to increase the unified credit against estate and gift taxes to the equivalent of a $3 million exclusion and to provide an inflation adjustment of such amount, and for other purposes. H.R.5031: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend relief from the alternative minimum tax. H.R.5105: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. H.R.5455: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability. H.R.5559: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums, use of such insurance under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs. H.R.6049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. H.R.6275: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide individuals temporary relief from the alternative minimum tax, and for other purposes. H. R. 6499: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. H.R.6899: To advance the national security interests of the United States by reducing its dependency on oil through renewable and clean, alternative fuel technologies while building a bridge to the future through expanded access to Federal oil and natural gas resources, revising the relationship between the oil and gas industry and the consumers who own those resources and deserve a fair return from the development of publicly owned oil and gas, ending tax subsidies for large oil and gas companies, and facilitating energy efficiencies in the building, housing, and transportation sectors, and for other purposes. S.26: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program demonstrating multiple approaches to Lifelong Learning Accounts, which are portable, worker-owned savings accounts that can be used by workers to help finance education, training, and apprenticeships and which are intended to supplement both public and employer-provided education and training resources, and for other purposes. S.58: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment. S.96: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure a fairer and simpler method of taxing controlled foreign corporations of United States shareholders, to treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations, to codify the economic substance doctrine, and to eliminate the top corporate income tax rate, and for other purposes. S.102: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010. S.141: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently increase the maximum annual contribution allowed to be made to Coverdell education savings accounts, and to provide for a deduction for contributions to education savings accounts. S.2239: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes. S.2374: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. S.2547: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. S.2741: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for disability savings accounts. S.3049: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax relief to low and moderate income individuals, to repeal the individual alternative minimum tax, to reform the corporate income tax, and for other purposes. S.3125: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S.3278: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that no loan may be made from a qualified employer plan using a credit card or other intermediary and to limit the number of loans that may be made from a qualified employer plan to a participant or beneficiary. S.3284: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the estate tax as in effect in 2009, and for other purposes. S.3335: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S.3557: to encourage savings, promote financial literacy, and expand opportunities for young adults by establishing KIDS Accounts. S. 3717: to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow reimbursement from flexible spending accounts for certain dental products.

Client expense: $515,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Issues affecting the taxation of small businesses and Estate Tax Reform. - H.R. 1424, The "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" S. 3049 - with respect to permanent estate tax reform S. 3284 - with respect to permanently implementing 2009 estate tax provisions

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $40,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

IRS Notice 2008-73 (Technical Corrections Bill and funding guidance); HR1591 (Baucus/Grassley Proposal on cap deferrals reintroduced under different titles); HR 1424 (PPA Technical Corrections Act); S819 and HR 1419 (Public Good Rollover Act of 2007); HR 6499 (Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2008); S3284 (Amending IRC of 1986 to permanently extend estate tax at 2009 levels); 409A Regulations (re: deferred compensation); Sections 404(a) and 404(c) of ERISA of 1974 (published in Fed. Reg. 7/23/08) IRS Form 8925 (Regulatory guidance on Internal Revenue Code Section 101(j) concerning employer-owned life insurance)

Client expense: $820,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of