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International Tax Reform Is Here

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law on December 22, 2017, represents the biggest change to U.S. tax law since adoption of the 1986 Code. In addition to rate cuts and various individual and corporate reforms, the Act...more

Taking a Gap Year: Delayed U.S. CbC Reporting Creates Hassle for U.S. Multinationals

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

International Tax Advisory: America’s Next Tax Model

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

International Tax Advisory: No Love Lost Between Taxpayer Topsnik and the Tax Court

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

International Tax Advisory: New Law Brings Some Welcome FIRPTA Changes

On December 18, President Obama signed the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (the “PATH Act”). Despite the new law’s name, a number of its provisions affect foreign investors. The PATH Act introduces several...more

International Tax Advisory: New IRS Notice Continues Attack on Inversions

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

Proposed Sec. 367 Regs Say Goodbye to Goodwill Exception

Citing aggressive taxpayer positions, recently proposed regulations do away with the foreign goodwill exception to gain or income recognition for outbound transfers under Section 367. The rules also restrict the type of...more

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