Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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A bipartisan tax package lawmakers introduced by the leadership of House and Senate tax committees yesterday would extend key measures surrounding bonus depreciation and research and development expensing. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) unveiled the agreement, characterizing it as a common sense, bipartisan, bicameral tax framework.
The path forward for the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 was unclear, but backers of the package were anxious to move on it given the 2023 tax season begins later in the month. While the package covers the child and low-income housing tax credits, it also includes a range of business-oriented measures.
These include an extension for 100 percent depreciation for most qualified business property placed into service before Jan. 1, 2026. However, the provision extends that further, to before Jan. 1, 2027, “for longer-production period property and certain aircraft.” The measure would continue 20 percent bonus depreciation for two more years after that.
In addition, the agreement would restore full research and experimental expensing through 2025. Currently, these costs must be amortized over five years.
Aerospace Industries Association president and CEO Eric Fanning praised the agreement, saying, “This framework returns the country to a tax code that drives the development of cutting-edge technologies, creates good-paying jobs, and supports small businesses.”

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