On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued the Executive Order on Unleashing American Energy, pausing the disbursement of grants and loans under the Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") and the Infrastructure Investment...more
2/10/2025
/ Arbitration ,
Clean Energy ,
Energy Policy ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Funding ,
Federal Grants ,
Foreign Direct Investment ,
Foreign Investment ,
Green Energy ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
International Arbitration ,
Investment Tax Credits ,
Renewable Energy ,
Trump Administration
The U.S. Tax Court allows a dividend-received deduction ("DRD") for a Section 78 gross-up while also disallowing foreign tax credits in its first application of Loper Bright....more
8/30/2024
/ Chevron Deference ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Regulatory Authority ,
SCOTUS ,
Tax Court ,
Tax Liability ,
U.S. Treasury
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the Ninth Circuit's decision in Moore v. United States, upholding the constitutionality of the mandatory repatriation tax enacted in 2017....more
In October 2020, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Secretariat released a report addressing its “Pillar Two” blueprint for an overhaul of the international tax system. Pillar Two provides for...more
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The Situation: With the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the "IRA"), Congress created new tax credits and expanded several others to encourage U.S. taxpayers to invest in clean energy and carbon reduction...more
In Short -
The Situation: On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law. The Act establishes a new 15% corporate minimum tax (the "CMT") on large U.S. corporations (generally...more
The Situation: On June 14, 2019, the IRS and U.S. Treasury released more than 500 pages of proposed, temporary, and final regulations addressing the taxation of U.S.-controlled foreign corporations.
The Development:...more
6/25/2019
/ Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Foreign Tax ,
GILTI tax ,
IRS ,
Multinationals ,
New Rules ,
Partnerships ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Retroactive Taxes ,
Stocks ,
U.S. Treasury
Just in time for tax return filing, much-needed guidance has been issued on the application of the transition tax on foreign subsidiaries' earnings imposed under last year's tax reform.
On August 1, 2018, proposed...more