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On March 27, 2020 the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (the Act) was enacted into law. The Act provides relief to individuals, small businesses, and others impacted by the ongoing Coronavirus emergency. This summary offers an overview of certain relief provided to individuals by the ACT, including direct payments to taxpayers, retirement plans, qualified plan loans, and expanded unemployment compensation.

The CARES Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020. The Act provides relief to individuals and families in the form of direct payments, relaxed restrictions on retirement accounts and new guidelines on cash donations to public charities.

Tax alpha is a measurement of tax efficiency that attempts to isolate the value of active tax management by comparing a manager versus a passive benchmark. This metric is preferred over alternative measures of tax efficiency because it shows the investor’s actual tax experience and uses a custom benchmark to put the results in perspective. The primary shortcoming of using alternative metrics such as turnover, unrealized gains, or loss carry forwards is that they can only indicate the investor’s potential tax experience—not their actual experience.

Taxable investors are right to be concerned with measuring performance on an after-tax basis. However, to put after-tax performance in perspective requires a benchmark, just as pretax performance measurement does. Yet unlike pretax performance, after-tax performance is unique to each investor’s tax situation and asset flow patterns.

This report summarizes certain state and local tax relief efforts relating to coronavirus. The taxes that were impacted include corporate income tax, individual income tax, and sales and use tax.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act appropriated $150 billion toward COVID-19 relief for fiscal year 2020. The vast majority of the amount will go to the states, although $3 billion is reserved for distribution to the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and $8 billion will go to Tribal governments. We give an overview of the timing and amounts of distribution, restrictions on fund use, and oversight and potential recoupment.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act contains multiple tax-related provisions intended to offer relief to both businesses and individuals. We outline key provisions of which businesses and individuals should be aware, including those governing retention credits, payroll tax deferrals, recovery rebates, and modifications to charitable contributions limitations.

The stimulus package provided from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act includes the Keeping American Workers Paid and Employed Act, which offers financial relief to help prevent workers from losing their jobs and aid businesses affected by the economic downturn. Here is a summary of the Act’s key sections that provide substantive support, reforms, or appropriations aimed at small businesses and small business owners.

This guide reviews various ways to assess philanthropic impact. It looks at what assessment can accomplish and what it has difficulty measuring. It sets out a series of questions donors can ask as they consider how to proceed with their philanthropy. And finally, it details some of the limitations inherent in trying to understand exactly how donors’ dollars are working. While precision in measuring impact can be difficult, donors should not be discouraged.

As we learn to cope with the unprecedented changes to our daily lives imposed by the COVID-19 crisis, many are rethinking about the steps to take to confirm that their affairs are in order. Now is the time to perform an estate plan wellness check-up and learn about the opportunities to implement planning techniques geared toward economic downturns.