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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Negotiators on Capitol Hill agreed to retain two key provisions in the final version of <a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20171218/Joint%20Explanatory%20Statement.pdf">the tax overhaul package</a>: one that would extend immediate expensing measures to both used and new aircraft and another clarifying that the 7.5 percent air transportation tax does not apply aircraft management fees. The package could receive a final vote in the House and Senate this week.

 


The bill would allow for the write-off of the expenses for both used and new aircraft in one year. Past “bonus” depreciation measures have covered only new aircraft. Currently, businesses depreciate aircraft over a five-year period. The bill repeals like-kind exchanges for business property, but NBAA said it believes the immediate-expensing measure will offset that elimination. The immediate-expensing measure is set to expire in 2022, but has a phaseout period through 2026. "It is a priority for NBAA and will help provide the tools necessary to grow our economy,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen.

 


Meanwhile, the managed aircraft measure, meanwhile, will provide certainty on the tax treatment of the fees for the first time, bringing to an end an issue that that had been at the forefront for management businesses for years. The issue became particularly critical after a 2012 IRS Chief Counsel opinion left aircraft management firms vulnerable to back taxes and penalties. The IRS had audited a number of companies, assessing hefty taxes on the management fees. But after an outcry from industry, the IRS put the opinion on hold in May 2013 and stopped enforcing the audit findings surrounding the fees, pending clarification.&nbsp;However, the agency still has not issued a clarification.

 


"NATA is deeply appreciative that…conferees retained provisions in the tax bill that provide our member companies with long-sought certainty as to the tax status of aircraft management services and encourage investment in the new and used aircraft markets," stated NATA president Martin Hiller.

 


NBAA noted that the legislation contains a number of other helpful provisions, including the reduction of the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, as well as a new 20 percent deduction for pass-through businesses. The association added it would work with a broad coalition to restore like-kind exchanges.

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