Author Archives: mgracey

In this episode Director of Valuations Hernando Gomez explains why a valuation may be useful for buyers and sellers of business, when to conduct one and how the process flows.

As family principals continue to grow their businesses and their wealth, they often establish family offices to centralize and streamline the administration and management of their lives, including financial and non-financial assets. Initially, business owners may entrust these duties to their corporate finance teams. However, there comes a point when more time and specialized skills […]

In this episode, Director of Tax Services Pedro Porras, CPA, explains the changes in the OBBB that will impact international citizens, companies and taxpayers.

The Federal Reserve Bank reduced interest rates by .50 percent in September 2024 and by a quarter point in November 2024, its first cuts since the start of the pandemic. These announcements may signal a new cycle of lower borrowing costs and a heightened appetite for mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity that had slowed considerably […]

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), enacted in July 2025, brings significant tax benefits to domestic manufacturing companies. For example, the law restores taxpayers’ ability to fully write off domestic research and development (R&D) expenses in the year they are incurred. It also reinstates 100 percent special depreciation for a long list of new […]

The July 4, 2025, enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) amends the tax code and its impact on not-for-profit entities. These include changes to charitable deductions and an extension of excise taxes on highly compensated employees and net investment income for private colleges and universities. Charitable Deductions The OBBBA retains charitable deductions […]

In this episode, Associate Director of Tax Services Alex Keneiby, CPA, shares updates to Opportunity Zones in the OBBB.

Among the various provisions of the new tax and spending bill is a significant change to the tax accounting method condo developers must use to recognize income, removing a significant irritant to developers’ cash flow and tax efficiency. Background Developers of single-family homes and townhouses historically had the option to use the complete contract method […]

Taxpayers in high-income-tax states breathed a collective sigh of relief with the July 2025 passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), which provides a temporary increase to the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction from $10,000 to $40,000 in 2025 through 2029, subject to income limitations. While the new law preserves […]

In this episode Real Estate Tax Director Art Lieberman explains the percentage of completion method of accounting, why it’s going away and why this is so valuable for condo developers.