The IRS recently issued private letter ruling (PLR) 107770-22 that involved a normalization issue of first impression, namely, whether payments received by a utility pursuant to an intercompany tax allocation agreement (TAA)...more
Businesses have entered 2024 facing the challenge of forecasting future tax obligations and preparing tax filings in a time of uncertainty, not the least of which is created by Congressional indecision on the future of a...more
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
On September 8, 2023, the Department of Treasury (the Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) released Notice 2023-63 (the Notice), which sets forth the Treasury and the IRS’s intent to issue proposed regulations...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) included a sunset provision for immediate expensing of research and experimentation (R&E) expenditures, generally providing that such expenses would be subject to five-year (domestic R&E) or...more
An early-stage company can offer prospective investors an attractive investment opportunity, particularly if the company’s stock will qualify as “qualified small business stock” (QSBS) for US federal income tax purposes. This...more
La Sección Cuarta del Consejo de Estado de Colombia, en sentencia del 3 de noviembre de 2022, expediente #23865, analizó los siguientes temas: 1) amortización del crédito mercantil en la compra de acciones; 2) la deducción...more
As Congress faces a March 11 deadline to enact a Fiscal Year 2022 omnibus spending bill, advocates are making their case to federal legislators this week to include a tax title that delays or repeals the five-year...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 6, 2021 – December 10, 2021... December 6, 2021: The IRS published updated guidance on...more
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the real estate portfolios of investors and lenders, perhaps most disastrously in the hospitality sector. A recent American Hotel & Lodging Association report shows the industry lost...more
Hospitality debtors with substantial equity but prolonged depressed revenues due to COVID-19 may find negative amortization, a tool used sparingly pre-pandemic, helpful in the restructuring of mortgage debt under a chapter 11...more
Advance payment guarantees are commonly used in the construction industry. However, successful challenges to a demand made under an advance payment guarantee appear to be less common. This article looks at three recent cases...more
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
Buyers often prefer to structure family business acquisitions as taxable asset purchases. In a taxable asset purchase, the buyer is entitled to write up the basis of the seller’s assets to fair market value, and then going...more
Over the last few months, the financial press has been filled with reports of negative interest rates. For example, on December 18 2014, the Swiss National Bank announced that it would move from a zero percent interest rate...more
The new tax announcements are designed to improve productivity and correct imbalances in the tax system. On 8 July, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne made a number of announcements relating to the tax system...more
The Staff of the Division of Investment Management (Staff) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) has published responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the SEC’s 2014 amendments...more
Two GAAP alternatives for private companies have been released by FASB. The alternatives were created by the Private Company Council, or PCC. ...more
New regulations issued by Treasury under Section 336(e) permit certain stock acquisitions to be treated as asset purchases, allowing buyers access to stepped-up asset basis and corresponding depreciation and amortization...more