On August 19, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) making changes to previously proposed regulations published in December...more
On August 25, 2023, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (88 FR 59576) that detail the information reporting requirements with respect to brokers of...more
On June 27, US Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced proposed legislation referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act). The proposed legislation includes changes that would expand the scope of IRC...more
8/2/2022
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Carried Interest ,
Holding Periods ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
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Partnerships ,
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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Section 1256 generally requires that certain contracts, including “foreign currency contracts,” be marked-to-market annually. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has long maintained that foreign currency options are not...more
Since the announcement was made that the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) was to be discontinued, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released three pieces of guidance...more
Significant provisions of the 2020 Proposed Regulations addressing the application of section 163(j) to foreign corporations and their shareholders include:
..An election under which a controlled foreign corporation (CFC)...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts (TCJA) repealed § 958(b)(4) of the Code, which prevented downward attribution of stock ownership from a foreign person to a US person. That repeal has resulted in many foreign corporations being...more
10/14/2019
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Corporate Taxes ,
Domestic Corporations ,
Foreign Entities ,
GILTI tax ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Repeal ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Revenue Procedures ,
Safe Harbors ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
U.S. Treasury
On September 5, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (Service) and the Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations for Section 451(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). Section 451(c) was added to the Code...more
On September 5, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations under section 451(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). The proposed regulations generally...more
Public Law 115-97 (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)) added a new foreign income inclusion rule for global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) under section 951A. On September 13, 2018, the Department of the Treasury...more
9/25/2018
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Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Partnerships ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Shareholders ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
U.S. Treasury
On August 1, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations, which were published in the Federal Register on August 9, 2018 (Proposed Regulations),...more