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Boston’s PILOT Task Force Releases Report and Recommendations
Practice: Medical, Educational and Cultural Institutions

After two years of meetings and study, Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s PILOT Task Force has released its final report recommending more consistent monetary contributions from the city’s tax-exempt non-profit institutions.

New Law Reduces Wealth Transfer Taxes
Practice: Private Client & Trust, Tax

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On December 17, 2010, substantial changes were made to gift, estate and generation skipping tax laws that introduce the highest exemption amounts and lowest tax rates seen in decades.

U.S. Export Control Reform - What does it mean for you?
Practice: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

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G&S attorneys, Kerry Scarlott and Eby Pineda-Dorcena, author an advisory on US Export Control Reform.

Massachusetts “Prompt Pay Law” Imposes New Obligations on Project Owners and Construction Lenders
Practice: Construction, Construction/Real Estate

An Act Promoting Fairness in Private Construction Contracts will apply to all construction projects that have an original contract price of $3 million or more and entered into on or after November 8, 2010.

Gift and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Savings in 2010
Practice: Private Client & Trust, Tax

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The end of 2010 looks to be an advantageous time to make wealth transfers. A temporary reduction in gift tax rates and the absence of a generation skipping transfer tax have created a window of opportunity in which to accomplish wealth transfers before the end of this year.

Massachusetts Now Requires Notification to Employees When Negative Information is Placed in Their Personnel Record
Practice: Employment

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The newly amended Massachusetts personnel records statute significantly changes employers’ obligations respecting information maintained in their employees’ personnel records and may expose non-compliant employers to liability.

District Improvement Financing (DIF) - Recent Amendments May Re-invigorate Funding Program
Practice: Development/Land Use, Real Estate

Goulston & Storrs attorneys Peter Corbett and Yuanshu Deng co-authored the G&S Advisory discussing the District Improvement Financing (DIF) statue.

Biomass in Massachusetts – Recent Developments
Practice: Green Business, Real Estate

In June 2010, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (“DOER”) released a study regarding the role biomass should play as a renewable or alternative energy resource.

New Massachusetts Law on Criminal Background Checks
Practice: Employment, Multifamily

On August 6, 2010, Governor Patrick signed into law Criminal Offender Record Information (“CORI”) reform that had been years in the making.

Are You Getting All of Your Brownfields Tax Credits?
Practice: Environmental

The Massachusetts Brownfields Tax Credit is available to certain taxpayers who cleanup qualifying sites in Massachusetts. The tax credit can be up to 50% of the net cost of the work.

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