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Natural Resources, Real Estate & Renewable Energy Taxation

Parsons Behle & Latimer's natural resources attorneys advise clients using deep experience in complex natural resource taxation issues

Tax Credit Finance and Opportunity Zones

Overview

Parsons Behle & Latimer's Tax practice counsels clients engaged in the development, operation, management and transfer of real property assets and improvements and the associated tax complications of these fixed assets.

Our advice focuses on planning and management of income to identify tax opportunities that help unlock equity for project development and optimize the character of project returns. This includes counsel on 1031 exchanges and state and local tax excise tax issues (sales and use).

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Experience

Facilitated Deal to Install Largest Solar Array in Montana

Represented a developer in a first-of-its-kind deal in Montana with third-party financing between to design and install a solar array - the largest behind-the-meter array currently known in Montana.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Project

Assisted on an environmental, social and governance (ESG) project for the San Juan County Clean Energy Foundation LLC to establish a fund designed to contribute to the near communities.

Transactions and Compliance for Multiple Solar Projects

Represented buyer in a transaction for the acquisition of multiple utility scale solar projects in varying stages of development, involving private, state and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. Performed due diligence; contract and agreement work. Since acquisition, conducted permitting, land acquisition, environmental, title, tax and other work including securing bona fide prospective purchaser protections that involved Brownfields property; EPA support in obtaining a Ready for Reuse determination.

Capabilities

Tax Credit Finance and Opportunity Zones

Parsons Behle & Latimer is a recognized leader in structuring investments in the context of opportunity zone incentive. We counsel project developers about how to monetize tax credits and utilize coordinated entity structures to match taxation to the project’s development cycle.

Insights

Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act for the Natural Resource Sector: How Resulting Tax Incentives and Fees Could Affect Your Business

Superfund Chemical Excise Taxes Restored and Expanded by Jobs Act

by Ross P. Keogh

Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorney Facilitates Unique Montana Deal to Provide Largest Solar Array in Montana for Missoula County Detention Center