New Opportunity Zone Incentives After OBBBA
New Recognition Periods, Qualified Rural Opportunity Funds, Planning Strategies
Course Details
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Live Online with Live Q&A
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Tax Preparer
- event Date
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
110 minutes
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BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 110-minute webinar is accredited for 2.0 CPE credits.
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BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
This webinar will analyze the expansion of opportunity zone investments under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Our panel of seasoned federal tax experts will discuss the new recognition schedule, meeting property and timing requirements, and provide examples of planning strategies to mitigate tax under this new legislation.
Mr. Becker is a Tax attorney with over 10 years of international law firm and accounting firm experience. He counsels clients in a diverse range of tax, business, and private wealth matters. Mr. Becker's experience includes the tax and non-tax aspects of investment fund formations, private equity mergers and acquisitions, hedge funds, family office operational and investment structures, and real estate joint ventures and investments. Prior to joining Pillsbury, he was a founding member of a multi-family office and registered investment advisor dedicated to blockchain and digital asset investors, founders, and entrepreneurs.
Ms. Marschall has over 24 years of accounting, audit, and tax experience, including experience at a large public accounting firm, internal audit at a national bank, university Research Assistant and scholarly article author and co-author. Her tax and accounting engagements are geared towards individuals, and their small-to-mid sized businesses accounting engagements are geared towards individuals and small businesses.
The OBBBA has significantly enhanced the benefits of investing in qualified opportunity funds (QOFs). Introduced as part of the TCJA, this benefit was scheduled to sunset with other provisions on December 31, 2026. Instead, QOZ incentives have been made permanent and more far-reaching under the recent Act.
Originally, investments in qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) provided a five-year deferral of capital gains if an investor held the investment for five years. An additional 5% of the deferred gain is added to the basis if the investment is held for seven years. Consequently, the time-laden benefits have decreased as the sunset deadline approaches.
Under OBBBA, a rolling five-year recognition period has been added for gain deferral along with a new provision for Qualified Rural Opportunity Funds (QROFs). These areas, with 50,000 or fewer inhabitants, receive additional incentives, including a 30% basis step-up after five years.
Both the old and new legislation have specific requirements that must be met to qualify for OZ tax benefits. Investors and their advisers need to understand tax planning strategies and requirements of QOZs to maximize taxpayer savings.
Listen as our panel of opportunity zone experts explains the nuances of these investment vehicles.
- Opportunity Zones under the OBBBA – introduction
- Opportunity Zones under TCJA
- Prior OZ investments
- Status of new legislation
- New eligibility criteria
- Deferral timeline
- New Qualified Rural Opportunity Funds (QROFs)
- New reporting requirements
- Penalties
- Examples
The panel will cover these and other critical issues:
- Comparing and contrasting OZs under TCJA and the OBBBA
- New Qualified Rural Opportunity Zone requirements and benefits
- Planning to maximize tax-savings for OZs under the OBBBA
- New recognition periods for deferral of gains
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify taxpayers who could defer substantial tax liability utilizing OZs
- Determine how gain is recognized under the 5-year deferral period
- Decide when property is located a Qualified Rural Opportunity Funds
- Ascertain how OZ benefits and requirements differ after the OBBBA
- Field of Study: Taxes
- Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
- Advance Preparation: None
- Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
- Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
- Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
- Prerequisite:
Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of pass-through taxation, including taxation of partnerships, S corporations and their respective partners and shareholders.
Strafford Publications, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE Credits. Complaints regarding registered sponsons may be submitted to NASBA through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
Strafford is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
