Recently, in Rawat v. Commissioner, the D.C. Circuit reversed the Tax Court decision and held that a foreign partner would not be subject to U.S. tax on selling an interest in a partnership with “hot assets” subject to §...more
8/6/2024
/ Chevron Deference ,
Foreign Partner ,
IRS ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Partnership Interests ,
Partnerships ,
Sale of Assets ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Tax Court ,
Tax Liability ,
Transfer of Interest
The Internal Revenue Service’s new private letter ruling (PLR) concerned a domestication of a Foreign Parent corporation under U.S. ownership—with a few notable twists. First, the PLR applied a substance-over-form analysis to...more
7/23/2024
/ Corporate Conversions ,
Corporate Restructuring ,
Domestic Corporations ,
Foreign Corporations ,
IRS ,
Parent Corporation ,
Private Letter Rulings ,
Reorganizations ,
Share Classes ,
Stock Issuance ,
Stock Sale Agreements ,
Subsidiaries ,
Tax-Free Exchanges
The book has closed on 2023, but several recent tax-related rulings are sure to have ripple effects into 2024 and beyond—particularly with respect to transfer pricing and foreign tax credits. Here are five cases that will...more
1/9/2024
/ Chevron Deference ,
Economic Substance Doctrine ,
IRS ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Moore v US ,
Oral Argument ,
SCOTUS ,
Tax Court ,
Tax Credits ,
Taxation ,
U.S. Treasury
Following the IRS’s issuance of guidance in Notice 2023-63 regarding R&D capitalization under Section 174, a working group of several Fenwick tax group attorneys commented to the IRS and the U.S. Treasury Department on...more
11/30/2023
/ Amortization ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Life Sciences ,
New Guidance ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Research and Development ,
Research and Experiment Tax Credit ,
SEC Comment Letter Process ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Taxation ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury
Released on September 8, 2023, IRS Notice 2023-63 provides wide-ranging and potentially controversial guidance on the capitalization and amortization of research and experimentation expenses under section 174....more
One of the more significant issues that taxpayers and tax practitioners have faced in recent months is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s (TCJA) amendment to Section 174, requiring capitalization of previously deductible R&D and...more
In the newly released Proposed Foreign Tax Credit (FTC) Regulations, Treasury provided some measure of relief on cost recovery and royalty withholding, two of the most troublesome aspects of the Final FTC Regulations that...more
Taxpayers with royalties owing from a foreign affiliate may wish to negotiate a prepayment of the future royalty stream for a lump sum price. This could include accelerating foreign source income or repatriating cash from a...more
Introduction On August 16, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, P.L. 117-169 (IRA). The law addresses a range of issues, from climate change to energy security to prescription drug prices for...more
Last month, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden of Oregon and fellow Finance Committee Democrats Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Mark Warner of Virginia released a draft proposed overhaul of the international tax regime (the...more
A few weeks ago, the IRS released a new “practice unit” providing training for its examiners on translation of foreign currency gains and losses of branches (so-called qualified business units, or QBU) under §987....more
Foreign exchange gain or loss is a feature of most cross-border business activity and has tax implications under two different sets of rules governing foreign currency transactions (§ 988) and foreign currency translation (§§...more
On March 20, 2020, Treasury and the IRS released final regulations under Section 901(m). The regulations were published in the Federal Register on March 23, and generally apply to covered asset acquisitions (CAAs) occurring...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) repealed the long-standing “50/50” sourcing rule for United States exporters of manufactured products. Under the new rules, which source income of a “producer” solely to the place of...more
1/29/2020
/ Cross-Border Transactions ,
Exports ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
Imports ,
Inventory ,
IRS ,
Manufacturers ,
Natural Resources ,
Pass-Through Entities ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Qualified Business Income ,
Resource Extraction ,
Section 199A ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
U.S. Treasury
In 2019, we published analysis to help tech and life sciences companies navigate U.S. tax law changes, an evolving IP landscape and new privacy regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act. We also tracked venture...more
1/8/2020
/ ABC Test ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Convertible Debt ,
Corporate Governance ,
Data Privacy ,
Debt Financing ,
Direct Listing ,
Diversity ,
Emerging Technology Companies ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Life Sciences ,
Misclassification ,
New Guidance ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Proxy Season ,
Silicon Valley ,
Startups ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Venture Capital ,
Withholding Tax ,
Woman Board Members
On December 2, 2019, Treasury and the IRS released final and proposed regulations on the foreign tax credit. As expected, the final regulations finalize the 2018 proposed regulations relating mainly to the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
1/6/2020
/ Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Final Rules ,
Foreign Earned Income ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
International Tax Issues ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Planning ,
U.S. Treasury
We receive many questions from founders, investors and others about qualified small business stock. And it’s no wonder, given the complexity of the concept. In this article, we provide a high-level overview of QSBS. A...more
On October 9, 2019, the IRS released Revenue Ruling 2019-24, which provides guidance with respect to hard forks and airdrops of cryptocurrency, and new frequently asked questions (FAQs), which provide guidance on other...more
10/14/2019
/ 1099s ,
Blockchain ,
Capital Gains ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Fair Market Value ,
Income Taxes ,
IRS ,
New Guidance ,
Peer-to-Peer ,
Popular ,
Revenue Rulings ,
Transfer Taxes ,
Virtual Currency ,
W-2
The new regulations proposed in September under Section 382(h) regarding built-in-gain raise several international tax issues that companies planning for post-acquisition integration of loss corporations should be aware of....more
10/7/2019
/ Acquisitions ,
Built-In Gains ,
Change of Ownership ,
Corporate Taxes ,
GILTI tax ,
IRS ,
Loss Limitation Rules ,
Mergers ,
Net Operating Losses ,
New Rules ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Section 382 ,
Tax Exemptions ,
Tax Planning
Treasury and the IRS have issued proposed regulations filling a number of gaps and providing necessary guidance on the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT). In general, the guidance is reasonably consistent with the statute...more
Released on November 30, 2018, the foreign tax credit proposed regulations provide a comprehensive new framework for calculating the foreign tax credit in light of several changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA or...more
12/13/2018
/ Allocation of Funds ,
Banking Sector ,
Books & Records ,
CFC ,
Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Federal Taxes ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Foreign Banks ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Foreign Tax ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
Interest Payments ,
IRS ,
Multinationals ,
New Rules ,
Parent Corporation ,
Partnerships ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Royalties ,
Stocks ,
Subpart F ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Exemptions ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Tax Returns ,
Taxable Distributions ,
U.S. Treasury
The application of §1248 and §338(g) in the context of the purchase or sale of a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) has long been one of the most complex areas of the tax code. The recently enacted tax reform act — herein,...more
9/18/2018
/ Asset Management ,
C-Corporation ,
Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Federal Taxes ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
International Tax Issues ,
IRS ,
New Rules ,
Partnerships ,
Pass-Through Entities ,
Private Equity Firms ,
Shareholders ,
Stock Purchase Agreement ,
Stock Sale Agreements ,
Stocks ,
Tax Code ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deferral ,
Tax Planning ,
Tax Reform
A new IRS legal advice memorandum addresses a fact pattern that may become more common in the wake of Tax Reform—sale of intangible property from a controlled foreign corporation to its United States parent—and highlights the...more
6/25/2018
/ Amortization ,
Churning ,
Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Branding ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
Franchises ,
Intangible Property ,
IP License ,
IRS ,
Multinationals ,
Parent Corporation ,
Tax Reform
Only certain types of companies qualify under the QSBS rules which are laid out by a statute that aims to encourage entrepreneurial ventures. In this video series, Fenwick tax partner Will Skinner discusses the QSBS rules...more
In a ruling with tax implications for U.S. corporations with foreign subsidiaries, the U.S. Tax Court has held that transactions between a U.S. parent company and its controlled foreign corporations constitute “United States...more