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IRS Resumes Group Exemption Rulings: What Healthcare and Other Nonprofit Organizations Need to Know 

On January 20, 2026, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) resumed accepting new applications for group exemption ruling requests by issuing Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2026-8. This new guidance ends the moratorium on new applications for group exemption rulings that began in 2020 and introduces new requirements and guidance for applying for and maintaining a group…

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Marketplace Facilitator Sales Tax: Overlooked Local Tax Obligations

A marketplace facilitator is generally a platform that connects third-party sellers with buyers and administers the transaction itself, from listing the goods or services through processing the customer’s payment. Although well-known marketplace facilitators include Amazon, Wayfair and Airbnb, the statutory definition extends well beyond the largest platforms, and many small marketplaces qualify as facilitators as…

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IPO Readiness in Aerospace: Preparing for the Public Markets

For aerospace companies considering access to the public markets, IPO readiness often begins years before a registration statement is filed. When SpaceX listed on Nasdaq in June, raising roughly $75 billion in the largest initial public offering on record, it did more than mint a headline. It gave public market investors a reference point for…

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Cyber Matters: Edition 1

Reporting window: September 14 – September 28, 2026 (trailing 14 days) What Actually Matters This Cycle Executive Snapshot This cycle in one line: Attackers are going straight at the systems that hold people data, from HR and recruiting platforms to court records and a Pentagon personnel server, and many of the worst exposures trace back…

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Proposed Regulations Offer a Narrow Escape Hatch for Entities That Inadvertently Self-Certified as a QOF

Filing a Form 8996 by mistake has, until now, followed an entity indefinitely. Proposed regulations issued on September 11, 2026, would let an entity that inadvertently elected to self-certify as a Qualified Opportunity Fund revoke that election, but only where no qualifying investment in the entity was ever made. Outside that single fact pattern, the…

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Federal Bill Takes Aim at MSO/Friendly-PC Structures: The Tax Implications

A proposed federal bill targets the management services organization (MSO)/friendly professional corporation (PC) structure that underpins much of physician practice investment. H.R. 10444, the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act of 2026, was introduced on September 16, 2026, by Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) and 10 cosponsors. It was referred to the House Energy and Commerce…

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