Editor's note: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on Independence Day 2025. The 90 days that followed, July 4 to October 4, were a sprint to absorb hundreds of new provisions, file urgent amended returns, evaluate retroactive provisions, and start communicating with clients about implications. This essay documents the firm's response during the most consequential tax-law transition period in two decades.
President Trump signed P.L. 119-21 ¹, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, into law at a Fourth of July ceremony on the White House South Lawn. For practitioners, the signature ended a year of speculation but began a different kind of work: the 90-day sprint to understand, communicate, and implement a tax law that ran 887 pages of statutory text affecting virtually every provision of the Internal Revenue Code. For our practice, July through September 2025 was a continuous client-outreach campaign, paired with parallel team-internal study, working-group formation, and process redesign for 2025 tax season.
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