Last week, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department announced a number of new regulations intended to make it more difficult to qualify for tax advantages associated with inversion transactions and reduce certain...more
The increasing use of corporate inversions, whereby a company via merger achieves 20 percent or more new ownership, claims non-U.S. residence, and is then permitted to adopt that country’s lower corporate tax structure and...more
Section 7623 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”), added in 1954, authorizes the Treasury Secretary to pay an award as he deems necessary for “(1) detecting underpayments of tax, or (2) detecting and bringing to trial...more
On March 31, 2014, Governor Cuomo signed into law legislation that provides for an extensive reform of the state's corporate tax regime (the "Act"), most notably for out-of-state corporations providing digital products to New...more
On December 5, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") issued final regulations (the "Final Regulations") and proposed regulations (the "2013 Proposed Regulations") under section 871(m), which address withholding on...more
On September 5, the IRS issued temporary regulations on the application of the straddle rules to debt instruments (the "Temporary Regulations"). The Temporary Regulations provide that a taxpayer's obligation under a debt...more