On September 3, 2024, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) urging it to “increase enforcement scrutiny of REITs, especially large health and hospitality REITs that may be…
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On Monday, September 9, 2024, the California FTB approved proposed amendments to California’s personal income tax code.
This proposed rule would impose California income tax on non-resident/non-employee corporate directors…
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/ Business Organizations, Franchise Law, Taxation
On July 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued proposed regulations that would classify “basket contract transactions”, which are derivatives (i) with a term of…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Taxation
The newly elected UK Labour government published its call for evidence (see link here) on the taxation of carried interest on Monday 29 July 2024. This consultation by HM Treasury, cautiously anticipated following statements…
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/ Finance & Banking, Taxation
On 16 July 2024, the UK Supreme Court (SC) published its judgment in the case of Centrica Overseas Holdings Ltd (COHL) v HMRC. The ruling addresses the issue of whether professional advisory fees incurred in contemplation of a…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxation
On June 20, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the so called mandatory repatriation tax under Internal Revenue Code Section 965 (“MRT”) is constitutional.
Justice Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion..…
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/ Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade, Taxation
On June 17, 2024, the IRS announced the formation of a dedicated group in the Office of Chief Counsel specifically focused on developing guidance on partnerships, which is expected to work with a new “passthrough working group”…
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On April 9, 2024, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued two sets of proposed Treasury Regulations related to section 4501, REG-115710-22, which provides guidance on the…
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/ Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxation
On April 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued final regulations on the definition of “domestically controlled” real estate investment trusts (“REITs”)…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking
On March 11, 2024, the Biden Administration released the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget, and the “General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals,” which is commonly referred to as the “Green Book.” The…
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/ International Law & Trade, Taxation
As part of the UK’s Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has announced the abolition of the remittance basis for income tax and capital gains tax for non-UK domiciled, UK resident individuals (the…
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/ Finance & Banking, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
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On February 15, 2024, the IRS and Treasury issued a supplemental notice to a prior notice from December 2022, to correct a petition requesting that the Superfund Chemical Tax apply to polyphenylene…
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/ Environmental Law, Taxation, Toxic Torts, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On January 17, 2024, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) released a bill, the “Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024” (“TRAFA”…
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/ Administrative Law, Taxation
On 6 December, HMRC updated the section in its International Manual discussing the UK tax characterisation of overseas entities, and of Delaware (and other US) limited liability companies (LLCs) in particular (in INTM180000 and…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Taxation
On November 15, 2023, the U.S. Tax Court held in YA Global Investments v. Commissioner that a non-U.S. private equity fund (YA Global) with a U.S. asset manager that bought equity and convertible debt of U.S. portfolio companies…
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