Podcast - Chamber of Commerce v. Internal Revenue Service
In our blog post dated August 22, 2022, we discussed the one percent (1%) excise tax on certain stock repurchase transactions by certain publicly traded corporations enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the...more
This chart compares the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Revenue Proposals (the Greenbook), to the tax proposals in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) approved by the House Ways and Means Committee on September 15, 2021....more
On May 28, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget and Green Book, which provides detailed insights into the proposals of US President Joe Biden’s recently released...more
I. Introduction - On May 28, 2021, the Treasury Department released the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Revenue Proposals (the Greenbook). ...more
Corporate tax proposals in support of President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure plans would raise some $2 trillion over 15 years. Tighter international tax net would apply to corporations operating in low-tax...more
EDITOR’S NOTE - Tax Reform (or whatever you want to call it) is in full swing as this edition of Tax Talk goes to press. The House has passed H.R. 1 and the Senate Finance Committee has approved its own version of the Tax...more
On September 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas struck down a 2016 temporary regulation designed to limit corporate inversions(the “Rule”). Rule was simultaneously issued as a...more
On Friday, September 29, 2017, the Federal court for the Western District of Texas struck down the temporary anti-inversion regulation issued under Sec. 7874, which has been charged with preventing the planned $160 billion...more
On October 13, 2016, Treasury and the IRS issued new final and temporary “anti-inversion” regulations under section 385 of the Internal Revenue Code that could treat certain purchasers of notes issued by securitizations as...more
June’s job report is out today. The Journal gave us a jump start with 5 Things to Watch [and some thoughts on why May’s rough numbers may not be an outlier] – WSJ And how the Brexit has made the report way more important –...more
In April, the IRS proposed rules that would treat debt between related corporations as stock for U.S. tax purposes. These rules would apply to all corporations (including regular C corporations, S corporations, foreign...more
The Treasury Department has recently promulgated proposed regulations dealing with so-called inversion transactions. Inversion transactions are ones in which a U.S. corporation changes its domicile to a nation with a more...more
On April 4, 2016, Treasury and the IRS proposed sweeping regulations under § 385 of the Code. Issued the same day as the anti-inversion temporary regulations, the proposed § 385 rules would go much farther than merely...more
Multinational groups can strip U.S. earnings away from U.S. taxation by having a domestic corporation issue debt and pay earnings out to foreign affiliates as deductible interest. This strategy could be used after an...more
New regulations expand prior guidance reducing tax benefits of inversions. Proposed debt-equity rules will impact even routine intercompany transactions. On April 4, 2016, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and...more
On April 4, 2016, the United States Department of the Treasury issued temporary regulations that expand the scope of transactions subject to the rules designed to eliminate the US tax benefits of "inversions." The temporary...more