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The Biden Tax Plan
Tax Planning Under a Biden Presidency
2020 Presidential Candidates' Tax Proposals
New anti-abuse provisions
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Impact of environmental, social and governance agenda on tax
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a nonbinding Generic Legal Advice Memorandum (GLAM) that provides advice on Internal Revenue Code Section 482 and so-called implicit parental support. Consistent with prior...more
Why You Should Hire a Tax Professional to Review Your Foreign Legal Structure - U.S. parented corporations that have foreign operations conducted through a foreign legal structure have significant U.S. tax filing and...more
On November 18, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published private letter ruling 202246008 (the PLR), which concluded that a transaction qualifies as a tax-free spin-off under Section 3552 despite the fact that the...more
On March 31, 2022, the Luxembourg Administrative Court of Appeal ruled that, in order to determine the minimum acquisition value of a participation for the purposes of the Luxembourg parent-subsidiary exemption, the...more
Takeaways - Tax law changes in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) would limit the amount of value a company could extract in a spin-off by using a debt-for-debt exchange. Companies may be able to achieve most of the...more
Created by Congress in 1971 as a tax incentive for domestic exporters of U.S.-made goods, the domestic international sales corporation (DISC) remains a viable tool for small-to-medium sized exporters to reduce their federal...more
On December 17, 2021, the IRS released Private Letter Ruling 202150003 where it concluded that a Taxpayer would not violate the normalization rules if it ratably amortized its Protected EDIT (defined below) pursuant to an...more
Brief commentary on the past week’s cases, rulings, notices, and related federal tax guidance. Corporations Permitted to Rely on Public Shareholder Data to Confirm Qualification for Tax-Free Spin-off and Subsequent Merger...more
On 1 December, 2020, the Luxembourg tax authorities issued circular L.I.R 147/2, 166/2 and eval. n°63 on the application of EU Directive 2011/96 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and...more
In HMRC v Development Securities, the Court of Appeal (the “CA”) has overruled the Upper Tribunal and agreed with the First-tier Tribunal that the relevant Jersey incorporated subsidiaries of a UK parent were resident in the...more
The UK’s First-tier tax tribunal (FTT) has just released an interesting decision considering whether or not expenses incurred by a parent company on advisers’ fees that related to a proposed disposal by a group subsidiary and...more
On February 28, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released private letter ruling 202009002 (the PLR), which concluded that an absence of income does not, under the facts of the PLR, prevent a line of business from...more
Guernsey SPV not resident in the UK - In Development Securities plc and others v HMRC, the Upper Tribunal (UT) has overturned the prior discussion of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) in favour of the taxpayer in an important...more
Existing contracts must be amended no later than December 31, 2019. Parties to certain older German profit and loss transfer agreements ("PLTA"), take note. According to the German Federal Ministry of Finance's ("BMF")...more
On December 20, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) released proposed “anti-hybrid” regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under sections 267A, 245A(e), and...more
The “five-year active trade or business” or “ATB” requirement of section 355 is notorious for defeating many otherwise promising tax-free spin-off transactions. Consider the following common scenarios... Originally...more
Released on November 30, 2018, the foreign tax credit proposed regulations provide a comprehensive new framework for calculating the foreign tax credit in light of several changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA or...more
Background On Oct. 31, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations under Section 956 of the Internal Revenue Code that will eliminate the adverse tax consequences when a U.S. parent corporation (i)...more
On July 11, 2018, the Treasury Department and the IRS published final Treasury regulations on inversion transactions (the “Final Regulations”). The Final Regulations substantially adopt the temporary Treasury regulations...more
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law a budget reconciliation act commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This sweeping tax bill represents the most comprehensive reform of U.S. tax...more
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which includes numerous changes that will significantly impact mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Although the TCJA has rightly been...more
EU opens investigation into UK tax scheme for multinationals - The EU State aid rules are designed to stop Governments and local authorities giving companies a selective advantage, as doing so would create an unequal...more
Today, the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives released their long-anticipated tax reform bill, entitled the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”. While there have been multiple statements from the Republican majority in the...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