On March 9, 2023, the Treasury Department released the General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 Revenue Proposals (sometimes called the Green Book) to accompany President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for...more
3/20/2023
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On August 7, 2022, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act (the Act), which is expected to have a significant impact on climate, tax and health care policy in the United States. The result of intense negotiations among...more
The G7’s support for OECD-backed tax reforms could mark a big step toward a more consistent, revamped global tax scheme — depending on the details and whether it is actually adopted. ...more
On May 28, 2021, the Treasury Department released the General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Revenue Proposals (sometimes called the Green Book) to accompany President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for FY...more
6/15/2021
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Tax Reform
Former Vice President Joseph Biden has proposed a number of fundamental changes to the tax code over the course of his campaign. If he is elected president and if the Democrats keep control of the House of Representatives and...more
9/24/2020
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Tax-Deferred Exchanges
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was signed into law on March 27, 2020, representing the so-called “Phase 3” of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as discussed in our client alert “CARES...more
4/2/2020
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Tax Planning ,
Tax Relief
Many of the core provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) — including the corporate tax rate reduction and the fundamental reworking of the U.S. international tax regime — were geared toward addressing the uncompetitive...more
1/25/2019
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Cross-Border Transactions ,
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Inversion ,
Mergers ,
Multinationals ,
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Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
On March 21, 2018, the European Commission released a draft legislative package for “fair taxation of the digital economy,” which would establish new tax rules for digital business activities within the European Union. This...more
3/27/2018
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Recently proposed Treasury regulations, which will likely be finalized this year, promise to alter the tax treatment of a wide range of intercompany financing transactions dramatically, upending nearly a century of law...more
On September 14, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) and Treasury Department proposed new regulations addressing the tax treatment under Section 367 of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) of certain transfers by...more
9/21/2015
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Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing ,
Foreign Corporations ,
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IRC Section 367 ,
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Ordinary Business Exception ,
Outbound Transactions ,
Section 482 ,
Transfer Pricing ,
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Valuation
On September 22, 2014, Treasury and the IRS issued Notice 2014-52, 2014-42 I.R.B. 712 (the Notice), announcing their intention to issue regulations aimed at blunting certain of the benefits from so-called inversion...more
On Wednesday, the U.K. Government released draft legislation to be effective on 1 April 2015, which will impose a “diverted profits tax” (DPT) at 25 percent of the amount of profits deemed to have been diverted from the U.K....more
After several years of hearings and forums intended to develop broad-based support for comprehensive tax reform, on February 26, 2014, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman David Camp (R-Mich.) released a draft tax reform...more
4/22/2014
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Derivatives ,
Financial Products ,
Foreign Tax ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Partnerships ,
Subpart F ,
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Tax Reform ,
Ways and Means Committee
Three significant international tax reform proposals in the United States have been released in the past three years: the International Tax Reform Discussion Draft released by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp...more
On November 19, 2013, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a Staff Discussion Draft on International Business Tax Reform. The changes proposed in the discussion draft are far-reaching...more