In Liv. Commissioner (T.C. Summ. 2016-49), the taxpayer, appearing pro se, claimed he was entitled to education credits under Section 25A. The Tax Court disagreed, finding that the taxpayer’s U.S. residency start date made...more
The Tax Court, in American Metallurgical Coal Co., TC Memo 2016-139, recently held that financing of a sale of partnership interests by a foreign seller to a U.S. buyer was not debt, but equity. The court found that the...more
In recent Notice 2016-42, the IRS has proposed a new qualified intermediary (QI) agreement. The current QI agreement, set forth in Rev. Proc. 2014-39 (“the 2014 QI agreement”), expires December 31, 2016. The IRS expects to...more
Action 13 of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) final base erosion and profit-shifting (BEPS) report suggested the adoption of a standardized mechanism for transfer-pricing reporting. Per the...more
Generally, a disregarded entity is not subject to U.S. tax or information reporting, so the IRS is limited to gleaning information from tax filings by an entity’s owner. But foreign owners of disregarded entities often do not...more
On April 4, the Treasury released temporary regulations to attack (and prevent) inversions. Aimed at transactions designed to avoid the purposes of Sections 7874 and 367 and certain post-inversion avoidance transactions, the...more
The Treasury recently released a revised U.S. Model Income Tax Convention (the “2016 Model”), the U.S. starting point for bilateral treaty negotiation, last updated a decade ago. In May 2015, the Treasury circulated several...more
In late January, the Tax Court handed another loss to Gerd Topsnik (Topsnik v. Comm’r, Jan. 20, 2016). Topsnik last encountered the Tax Court in a 2014 case, in which he unsuccessfully argued that “informally” abandoning his...more
There is no love lost between the U.S. Treasury and U.S. companies seeking offshore tax homes. Absent congressional action to stem the inversion tide, the Treasury and IRS are left to flex their regulatory and administrative...more
LTR 201542004 at first seems to involve a standard spinoff for the purpose of pursuing a reverse Morris Trust combination of Controlled with a Merger Partner, with the “significant issue” for ruling being a proposed swap of...more
In late September, the IRS issued final regulations describing six requirements for a transaction or series of transactions to qualify as a reorganization under Section 368(a)(1)(F) (an “F reorganization”). The IRS...more
In the recent Rev. Proc. 2015-40, the IRS describes updated competent authority procedures for taxpayers seeking certain U.S. treaty relief. The new procedures, effective for requests on or after October 30, 2015, supersede...more
Like-kind exchanges are well-known events in the field of investment real estate. The tax law has spent about the last 30 years refining the deferred like-kind exchange, in which the taxpayer is given time to locate the...more
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