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Domestication with a Twist: A Tax Case Study

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New IRS Ruling Guidelines Significantly Impact Tax-Free Spin-Offs

On May 1, 2024, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2024-24 (Revenue Procedure), which sets out substantially revised guidelines for private letter ruling (PLR)...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS’s Implicit Parental Support Guidance ‘Formalizes’ Past Litigation Position

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a nonbinding Generic Legal Advice Memorandum (GLAM) that provides advice on Internal Revenue Code Section 482 and so-called implicit parental support. Consistent with prior...more

Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

CTA – The Large Operating Company Exemption – Not Everybody Can Be A “Big BOI”

In 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) was enacted into U.S. federal law as part of a multi‑national effort to rein in the use of entities to mask illegal activity. The CTA directs the U.S. Department of the...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Enough Already – Eliminate Downward Attribution and Accidental CFCs

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It’s Complicated- The Code includes a number of complex rules that are aimed at those overseas business and investment activities of U.S. taxpayers that Congress has determined may result in the improper deferral or...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - June 2023 - Driving You MAD - Customs Issues in Mergers Acquisitions & Divestitures

Let’s say you work in Customs Compliance at Shark Company. You learn that your company is purchasing Shrimp Company. Do you have any concerns? Will there be work to do? Yes, and yes! Buying Another Company- When one...more

Freeman Law

Reviewing a Foreign Legal Structure

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Why You Should Hire a Tax Professional to Review Your Foreign Legal Structure - U.S. parented corporations that have foreign operations conducted through a foreign legal structure have significant U.S. tax filing and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

IRS Permits Pre-Revenue Company to Undertake a Tax-Free Spin-Off

On November 18, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published private letter ruling 202246008 (the PLR), which concluded that a transaction qualifies as a tax-free spin-off under Section 3552 despite the fact that the...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Business Expenses Paid by Shareholder, But Whose Deduction Is It?

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Constructive Transfers- It is axiomatic that the tax treatment of interactions between a closely held business and its owners will generally be subject to heightened scrutiny by the IRS, and that the labels attached to such...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Build Back Better Act Would Change Monetization Playbook for Tax-Free Spin-Offs

Takeaways - Tax law changes in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) would limit the amount of value a company could extract in a spin-off by using a debt-for-debt exchange. Companies may be able to achieve most of the...more

Freeman Law

ReDISCovering a Tax Classic: The Domestic International Sales Corporation

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Created by Congress in 1971 as a tax incentive for domestic exporters of U.S.-made goods, the domestic international sales corporation (DISC) remains a viable tool for small-to-medium sized exporters to reduce their federal...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

No surprises under the tree as IRS concludes no normalization violation in use of revised composite depreciation rate lives to...

On December 17, 2021, the IRS released Private Letter Ruling 202150003 where it concluded that a Taxpayer would not violate the normalization rules if it ratably amortized its Protected EDIT (defined below) pursuant to an...more

Miller Nash LLP

Today in Tax: Spin-off Structures in Mergers & Acquisitions

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Brief commentary on the past week’s cases, rulings, notices, and related federal tax guidance. Corporations Permitted to Rely on Public Shareholder Data to Confirm Qualification for Tax-Free Spin-off and Subsequent Merger...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Tough Medicine: Litigation lessons from Medtronic

Medical device manufacturer, Medtronic, began its second trial on June 14 in the US Tax Court in a $1.36 billion transfer pricing dispute with the IRS. The trial concluded on June 25 and is among the most significant transfer...more

Alston & Bird

IRS APMA’s Results May Suggest COVID-19 Immunity

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Our International Tax Group analyzes the report on the IRS’s Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement Program and identifies important insights and trends for advance pricing agreements....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

IRS Ruling May Further Signal a Relaxation of “Collection of Income” Prong of Tax-Free Spin-off Active Trade or Business Test

On February 28, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released private letter ruling 202009002 (the PLR), which concluded that an absence of income does not, under the facts of the PLR, prevent a line of business from...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

In Decision With Important Tax and Bankruptcy Implications, Supreme Court Rejects Application of So-Called 'Bob Richards Rule'

In its recent decision in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., No. 18–1269 (Sup. Ct. Feb. 25, 2020), the Supreme Court held that federal courts may not apply the federal common law “Bob Richards Rule” to determine...more

Haug Partners LLP

Don’t Get Caught In the Conflict: U.S. Versus Brazilian IP Transfer Pricing Rules

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During a 2019 Tax Executives Institute conference in Washington, D.C., the Commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Charles Rettig, proclaimed, “[I am] not a commissioner who believes that the IRS loses...more

A&O Shearman

The Supreme Court’s Rejection of the Bob Richards Rule Creates Uncertainty Regarding the Entitlement of Members of a Consolidated...

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On February 25, 2020, the United States Supreme Court in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation struck down a judicial federal common law rule—known as the Bob Richards rule—that is used by courts to allocate tax...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Use of Bob Richards Rule to Determine Ownership of Tax Refund Within Consolidated Group:...

On February 25, 2020, in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, No. 18-1269 (U.S. 2020), the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ruled that the so-called “Bob Richards rule” should not be used to determine which...more

King & Spalding

Still The Least Dangerous Branch: Supreme Court Unanimously Rules That Federal Common Law Does Not Govern Corporate Tax Refund...

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On February 25, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion vacating a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit applying federal common law to determine the allocation of a corporate...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Supreme Court Tackles Tax-Related Cases

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The United States Supreme Court has picked up the pace this week, already issuing eight regular opinions and four opinions relating to orders as of today. We discuss the tax-related items here. In Rodriguez v. FDIC, the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

On February 25, 2020, the Supreme Court decided Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, No. 18-1269, overruling a federal common law rule that was used in some circumstances to determine how to distribute the tax...more

BCLP

Death of the Bob Richards Rule? Supreme Court Limits Federal Common Law (Rodrigues v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp.)

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When can a Federal Court employ a federal common law rule to make its decision in the case? Justice Gorsuch answer this in Rodriguez v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., U.S., No. 18-1269, 2/25/20. The answer...less often than you...more

Hogan Lovells

Upstream guarantees and security by foreign subsidiaries of a U.S. corporate borrower may now be available without adverse U.S....

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Tax structuring under the previous regime - Prior to the issuance of the final regulations described below, under Section 956 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and its related Treasury Regulations, for U.S. tax...more

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