Tax-exempt organizations—especially hospitals and health systems—face a new tax reality now that both houses of Congress have voted to pass the final tax reform bill.
Tax Reform Bill Becomes Law: Lessons for Tax-Exempt Organizations
By Erika Mayshar, Michael W. Peregrine, Mary K. Samsa, Ralph E. DeJong and Robert C. Louthian, III on December 28, 2017
Erika MaysharErika Mayshar provides tax planning advice for business entities and tax-exempt organizations. Her clients include hospitals and health systems, medical foundations, universities, corporate and family foundations, and trade associations, as well as private equity firms, investment management firms and closely-held businesses seeking to partner with nonprofits in creative ways. Read Erika Mayshar's full bio.
Michael W. PeregrineMichael W. Peregrine represents corporations (and their officers and directors) in connection with governance, corporate structure, fiduciary duties, officer-director liability issues, charitable trust law and corporate alliances. Michael is recognized as one of the leading national practitioners in corporate governance law. Read Michael W. Peregrine's full bio.
Mary K. Samsa
Ralph E. DeJongRalph E. DeJong advises clients on the compensation, executive benefits and employee benefits of tax-exempt organizations. He provides counsel on designing and preparing deferred and incentive compensation arrangements, leading governing boards in the review and approval of executive and physician compensation arrangements, negotiating and preparing executive and physician employment agreements, and analyzing the private inurement and intermediate sanctions implications of executive and physician compensation and benefit arrangements. Read Ralph DeJong's full bio.
Robert C. Louthian, IIIRobert C. Louthian, III, represents exempt organizations on a wide range of tax and related issues, including determinations of exempt status, securing private letter rulings on proposed transactions, and preparing and representing clients who are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service. He works primarily with hospitals and other institutional providers, private foundations, scientific research organizations, universities, trade associations and corporate foundations. Robert has extensive experience in the formation of provider networks, integrate delivery systems, conversions of tax-exempt organizations and joint ventures with tax-exempt participants. Read Robert Louthian's full bio.
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