The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS recently issued guidance aimed at curtailing purportedly abusive basis-shifting transactions utilized by businesses taxed as partnerships. This guidance represents additional...more
Our Tax Group sheds light on recent IRS rulings that disallow deductions involving success-based fees in M&A transactions. Contrary to common practice, the IRS recently ruled target companies could not deduct success-based...more
A Delaware state court struck down as unconstitutional a longstanding policy of the state’s taxing authority limiting NOL deductions of corporate taxpayers who file federal consolidated income tax returns. The Delaware...more
On December 4, 2020, the IRS released a new private ruling (PLR 202049002), holding that a physician-owned medical services professional corporation (PC) could be included in a consolidated tax return filing along with the...more
In its recent decision in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., No. 18–1269 (Sup. Ct. Feb. 25, 2020), the Supreme Court held that federal courts may not apply the federal common law “Bob Richards Rule” to determine...more
On February 25, 2020, the United States Supreme Court in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation struck down a judicial federal common law rule—known as the Bob Richards rule—that is used by courts to allocate tax...more
On February 25, 2020, in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, No. 18-1269 (U.S. 2020), the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ruled that the so-called “Bob Richards rule” should not be used to determine which...more
On February 25, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion vacating a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit applying federal common law to determine the allocation of a corporate...more
The United States Supreme Court has picked up the pace this week, already issuing eight regular opinions and four opinions relating to orders as of today. We discuss the tax-related items here. In Rodriguez v. FDIC, the...more
On February 25, 2020, the Supreme Court decided Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, No. 18-1269, overruling a federal common law rule that was used in some circumstances to determine how to distribute the tax...more
When can a Federal Court employ a federal common law rule to make its decision in the case? Justice Gorsuch answer this in Rodriguez v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., U.S., No. 18-1269, 2/25/20. The answer...less often than you...more
It answers some questions but leaves many issues unresolved. On December 29, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-07—Guidance under Section 965 (the Notice)—indicating its intent to issue regulations...more
The rules of IRC § 1504 and Treas. Reg. § 1.1502-47 provide the general parameters for determining whether a domestic life insurance company (within the meaning of IRC § 816(a)) may join in filing a consolidated U.S. federal...more
Recently proposed Treasury regulations under IRC § 385 (the Proposed Regulations) would create sweeping changes to the federal income tax treatment of related-party debt. The Proposed Regulations could also have far-reaching...more
Proposed regulations would establish a sweeping framework to treat debt as equity in an effort to curb the use of “excessive” related-party debt. On April 4, 2016, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the...more
NEW PROPOSED REGULATIONS FROM THE IRS PROVIDE TAXPAYER-FRIENDLY SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES WITH TAX RETURN DUE DATES AND CIRCULAR ADJUSTMENT TO BASIS. In the last six months, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has issued two...more
The IRS recently issued PLR 201451009, providing that a management services company and two professional corporations (PCs) were members of the same affiliated group under Section 1504(a) of the Internal Revenue Code...more
The federal bank regulators recently issued additional guidance on intercompany income tax allocation agreements between holding companies and their depository institution subsidiaries. Intended to clarify the ownership of...more
On March 10, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2014-24, establishing the rules for when the IRS will automatically determine that a subsidiary corporation that had failed to file a properly and timely executed Form 1122,...more
On August 15, 2012, Chief Administrative Law Judge Bill Thompson issued his long-awaited SRLY ruling, holding that an Alabama consolidated group was entitled to carry forward certain net operating losses (“NOLs”) incurred...more