Attorneys for Qualified Opportunity Funds Discuss the 2019 OZ Proposed Regulations

IRS guidance in 2018 left considerable uncertainty as to how qualified opportunity funds could be designed to deploy capital in such a way to qualify their investors for their desired tax benefits, particularly where the funds were to invest in operating businesses rather than specific real estate projects. In the latest Practitioner Insight, three tax attorneys, Bradley Borden, Alan Lederman, and Jessica Millett, talk with Andrea L. Ben-Yosef about favorable and unfavorable aspects of the 2019 proposed regulation package and some remaining uncertainties.