How Leading Philippine Companies are Using Bonds to Their Advantage
The Federal Reserve’s “first-ever foray into the corporate bond market” will wrap up by the end of the year, with the central bank pledging to sell off all of the ETF-investments and direct bond holdings it began purchasing...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) have issued final regulations that address amendments to the rules for discounting unpaid losses pursuant to Section 846 under the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
European Leveraged Finance Alert Series: Issue 1, 2019 - New Polish laws, effective 1 January 2019, have reformed the tax treatment of a number of different taxable business activities. In particular, the Ministry of...more
Corporate Governance - Subcommittee Prepares Interim Proposal for Amendment to the Companies Act - On February 14, 2018, the Companies Act (in relation to Corporate Governance, etc.) Sub-Committee of the Legislative...more
One of the key components of the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Banks, financial institutions,...more
The impact of discounts on consideration for VAT purposes (Finanzamt Bingen-Alzey v Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG) - The ECJ has confirmed that consideration for VAT purposes should be reduced by any discount...more
Late in 2017, H.R.1, the federal tax reform bill (the “Federal Tax Act”) was signed into law. Effective January 1, 2018, the maximum federal corporate income tax rate decreased from 35% to 21%. ...more
On November 2, 2017, the House Committee on Ways and Means released a draft of its Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Bill”). The Tax Bill proposes to eliminate the federal tax exemption of interest income from all private...more
International Tax Developments - BEPS Multilateral Convention signed - On 7 June, officials from more than 60 jurisdictions signed the BEPS Multilateral Convention which will transplant a number of measures in respect...more