On October 1, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service issued IR-2025-99, providing important updates on the ongoing rollout of the revised Form 6765, Credit for Increasing Research Activities, commonly referred to as the R&D Tax Credit. The announcement extends the comment period for the draft instructions, delays the requirement to complete Section G and lengthens the ...
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”). The following day, President Trump signed the bill into law, marking a key milestone in his second-term agenda. OBBBA introduces sweeping changes to numerous areas of U.S. federal income tax law in addition to ...
Winthrop & Weinstine will be attending the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Taxation. This is the premier event for lawyers interested in all aspects of tax law. Join us in Washington, DC to learn from and meet with the country’s leading tax lawyers and government officials, discussing the latest federal, state, and local tax policies ...
Rafi Mottahedeh and Joel Peters-Fransen, former Big Law tax lawyers, in-house counsel and colleagues, are working together again as shareholders and co-chairs of Winthrop & Weinstine’s national tax practice. The pair intend to expand the depth and breadth of the Minneapolis firm’s tax practice, which has 20-plus lawyers. “It’s less about us individually and more ...
Rafi Mottahedeh will be a moderator at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation’s Midyear Tax Meeting on January 18, 2024. The title of the session is, “Lessons Learned from the Cross Refined Coal Case.” For more information, please see the event website.
January 18, 2024
Rafi Mottahedeh will be a moderator at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation’s Midyear Tax Meeting on January 18, 2024. The title of the session is, “Recent Inbound Tax Cases & Other Guidance.” For more information, please see the event website.
January 18, 2024
Rafi Mottahedeh and Joe Peters-Fransen are panelists at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation’s Tax Meeting on May 4, 2023. The title of his panel is, “What Profits? Gross Income Allocations for Carried Interest/Performance Allocations in Private Funds.” For more information, please see the event website.
May 4, 2023
Rafi Mottahedeh will be a panelist at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation’s Tax Meeting on May 4, 2023. The title of his presentation is, “Movin’ on Up: Is Indexing Basis for Inflation Worth a Fresh Look?”
Rafi Mottahedeh will be a panelist at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation 2019 Midyear Tax Meeting. The title of the panel is, “U.S. Shareholder Basis in Foreign Corporations Post-Tax Reform.”
May 2, 2019
Rafi Mottahedeh is the co-author of the article, “The Import Price Advantage Under the Border-Adjusted Tax.” The blueprint proposes a cash-flow-based border-adjustable tax (BAT) that combines elements of a consumption tax and an income tax. Download the article here.
Rafi Mottahedeh is author of, “Liquidations that Run for the Border,” for the M&A Tax Report.