IRS Publishes Final Opportunity Zone Regulations: Putting It All Together | Forbes – December 23, 2019

Tony Nitti Senior Contributor

Taxes
Ah…opportunity zones. Not since my private message pursuit of Kristen Bell have I invested so much time and effort into something only to receive nothing in return.

To be honest, the whole opportunity zone thing has been a bit of a phenomenon. Once an overlooked eight pages of sloppily-written text buried deep within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, over the last two years, the opportunity zone tax break – or at least talking about the opportunity zone tax break – has become big business. Not a week goes by that there isn’t an conference or three on the topic somewhere in the country. Over the summer, I arrived home from work one day to find the inaugural issue of Opportunity Zones Magazine in my mailbox. And to top it all off, in the past year, I’ve been interviewed by two opportunity zone podcasts, which is worthy of note only because it establishes that there are multiple opportunity zone podcasts. —more—