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October 10, 2025/Manufacturing, Tax, Business Planning

New Trade Deals, Section 232 Investigations, and More

A flurry of tariff-related developments cascaded down in recent weeks, including the following: A final U.S.-EU trade deal; A trade deal between the U.S. and Korea; Massive tariffs on Switzerland and India; Further Section 232 investigations on wind turbines and polysilicon; Termination of the de minimis exemption;  Canada’s removal of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. […]

October 10, 2025/Tax, Business Planning, Manufacturing

How to Prepare for Increased Tariff Compliance Enforcement

Are You Prepared for a New Enforcement Regime?   With the Trump Administration’s extensive use of tariffs under its “America First Trade Policy,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), supported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has shifted its enforcement focus to trade fraud and tariff evasion. Criminal investigations into import-related fraud and attempts […]

August 25, 2025/Manufacturing, Tax, Business Planning

What the OBBBA Means for Manufacturing

Incentivizing Production: What the OBBBA Means for Manufacturing No sector is poised to feel a bigger impact from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) than the manufacturing industry. Many of the most important provisions in the $4.5 trillion tax package were designed specifically to encourage domestic production.  Although it remains unclear how the evolving tax and […]

Breaking Down R&D Deductions in the One Big Beautiful Bill: What Businesses Need to Know

On July 4th President Trump signed the reconciliation tax bill into law that had been passed earlier in the week by the House and Senate. One of the more significant components of the bill for businesses is the permanent restoration of immediate deductibility for domestic research and development costs effective for tax years beginning after […]

What you need to know about the upcoming IRS E-Payment Mandate

Prepared by SL’s Tax Partners On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed the Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account Executive Order.  Its goal is to phase out all paper-based federal payments and receipts—including tax refunds, payments, Social Security benefits, vendor payments, and lockbox receipts—in favor of electronic funds transfers (EFT) such as direct […]

What you need to know about the Big Beautiful Bill

Prepared by SL’s Tax Partners With expiration of most of the individual tax provisions included in the 2017 tax law commonly known as The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed during President Trump’s first term slated to sunset at the end of 2025, as well as unpopular provisions such as a requirement to capitalize research […]

May 6, 2025/Tax, Business Planning

Smith Leonard Honors the Retirement of Assurance and Advisory Partner James Mitchell

Smith Leonard PLLC is both honored and humbled to announce the retirement of James Mitchell, Assurance and Advisory Partner.  Since Smith Leonard’s inception in 2007, James has been a cornerstone of our Assurance and Advisory practice. His leadership, integrity, and unwavering commitment to his clients and colleagues have helped shape who we are today not […]

April 22, 2025/Tax, Business Planning

IRS Further Postpones Various Tax Deadlines to Sept. 25 for North Carolina Storm Victims

On April 17, the IRS announced additional Hurricane Helene tax relief for residents of North Carolina.  Per prior relief announced on October 1, tax return filings and payments due between September 25, 2025 and May 1, 2025 (the postponement period) were not due until May 1, 2025, again, for North Carolina residents. Per the latest […]

February 13, 2025/Business Planning, Tax

House Republicans Float Long List of Potential Tax Measures

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee recently circulated a draft list of policy options, some of which would help pay for the extension of the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and set President Donald Trump’s tax policy agenda.  The document has not been officially published by […]

SALT 2024 Year-End Planning Guide

As 2019 comes to a close, we encourage you to consider year-end planning to take advantage of opportunities to reduce your tax bill and prepare for the year ahead. View our business and individual tax planning guides.

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