Discover the latest global developments and planning opportunities to stay ahead of the curve at McDermott’s Tax Symposium 2024. Join us in Chicago for a full day of programming designed to equip corporate tax leaders with...more
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.”...more
Review of U.S. Tax Developments in 2021- Last year, we predicted that the biggest U.S. tax news in 2021 would be revenue-raising legislation that the Democrats would put forward after the election of Joe Biden as the 46th...more
Yesterday, on December 19, 2021, Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said that he opposes the Build Back Better Act, which effectively prevents its passage. While there are no immediate prospects for the Build Back Better Act to...more
Overview - Over the past year, several tax law changes have been proposed by the Biden administration and, in September 2021, draft legislative language was circulated, which set forth proposed changes to the Internal...more
Updates and negotiations for President Biden’s tax plan continue to filter through Congress. The House Ways and Means Committee recently passed the Build Back Better Act (the “Act”), and it is now on its way for the Senate’s...more
In this final blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax Bill, we address the international tax proposals in the Bill, JCX-43-21. The international tax proposals are fewer in number than the domestic and transfer tax...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
I. Introduction - On September 15, 2021, the House Ways and Means Committee approved tax provisions for proposed inclusion in the Build Back Better Act (the BBBA). If enacted in their current form, the proposals would,...more
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee released proposed budget reconciliation legislation on September 13, 2021. The bill still must complete many steps in the legislative process – including passage by the full House of...more
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced key tax reform proposals on September 15 that would increase taxes for corporations and high-income individuals. Several tax reform proposals are under consideration as part of...more
Big tax changes are on the way! President Biden, the House, and the Senate all seem to have their own agenda, but the proposal introduced by the House Ways and Means Committee (the “Proposal”) is a good starting point for...more
On September 13, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee released draft budget reconciliation legislation proposing a number of significant tax changes for businesses and for individuals....more
As you may be aware, the House Ways and Means Committee recently approved a multitrillion-dollar tax package (the “Proposal”) that has significant tax impact on both individuals and corporations. ...more
On August 25, 2021, Senate Finance Committee members Wyden, Brown, and Warner released draft bill language and a section-by-section summary of their proposed International Tax Reform Framework. The legislative language is...more
As Congress and the White House look to make a deal on infrastructure by this summer, negotiations regarding changes in the tax law continue. Since our prior alert, while progress has been made regarding a bipartisan...more
On May 28, 2021, the Biden Administration released the Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, and the “General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Revenue Proposals,” which is commonly referred to as the “Green Book.” ...more
Just a few months after regulations were finalized, and as taxpayers were getting comfortable with the international tax provisions implemented by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), proposals from President Biden and the...more
The American Jobs Plan is a proposal to increase investment in infrastructure, the production of clean energy, the care economy and other priorities. The Made in America Tax Plan (Tax Plan) is the vehicle to pay for the...more
On March 31, 2021, the Biden administration released a factsheet for the “Made in America Tax Plan”. On April 5, 2021, Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)...more
The proposals in the Framework echo many of the themes set forth in the Made in America Tax Plan. Last week, President Biden outlined an infrastructure spending plan (the American Jobs Plan) and a tax reform plan (the...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
On March 4, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) released proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) regarding the deduction for “foreign-derived intangible...more
Public Law 115-97 (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) added a new foreign income inclusion rule for global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) under section 951A. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act also added section 250, which permits...more
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act), signed into law on Dec. 22, 2017, made significant changes to the manner in which U.S. corporate and individual taxpayers are taxed on income from international operations. • The Tax...more