A common strategy many wealth management firms recommend is ensuring that as much as 30% of your portfolio includes foreign investments and securities. What is the potential tax impact of foreign investments? One of the keys...more
Is it time to rethink your offshore PFIC investment(s)? What is a PFIC and why should you be concerned about the impact it will have upon taxation? Why should investment in a PFIC concern you as a US taxpayer?...more
We continue with Part 2 – International Tax Primer for US Taxpayers and Expatriates with one of the most common forms associated with foreign asset and income reporting to the IRS: Form 8938, the Statement of Specified...more
A taxpayer with shares in a passive foreign investment company (a “PFIC”) may qualify to make either a qualified electing fund (“QEF”) election or an election to apply mark-to-market treatment with respect to marketable...more
U.S. partners in U.S. partnerships that invest in PFICs may soon be responsible for filing elections previously filed by the partnership. Under current regulations, U.S. partners may rely on entity-level mark-to-market...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
On January 25, 2022, the IRS and Treasury proposed regulations that would treat U.S. partners, instead of their partnerships, as PFIC shareholders for making qualified electing fund, mark-to-market, or purging elections,...more
On January 25, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) released regulations (the “Final Regulations”) finalizing provisions in prior proposed regulations which generally...more
Convertible debt is exceptionally attractive to investors in volatile markets because it offers the security of a bond with the upside of equity. That is why convertible debt was one of the strongest asset classes during the...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 30, 2020 – December 4, 2020... November 30, 2020: After releasing a pre-publication...more
Historically, the ability for investment fund managers to take profits in the form of carried interest has allowed those managers to pay the lower long-term capital gains tax rate (compared to income) so long as the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Treasury Department released proposed regulations (REG-107213-18) under Section 1061 on July 31 providing guidance to the holders of certain carried interests. These rules are of...more
We are frequently asked by our fund manager clients about what tax issues they should consider when forming a new venture capital fund or investing in portfolio companies. In this post, we outline a few key considerations for...more
U.S.-based venture capital and other funds that invest in foreign companies must be careful to avoid the passive foreign investment company (PFIC) rules, which could substantially increase the tax owed on exit for U.S....more
The IRS and Treasury have proposed the most significant regulations on passive foreign investment companies (PFICs) in nearly 30 years. Our International Tax Group highlights new guidance on fundamental issues and points out...more
After an initial period of almost 30 years without significant regulatory guidance addressing the statutory exception for foreign insurance companies under the passive foreign investment company (PFIC) regime, the U.S....more
On November 26, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under section 163(j) of the Internal Revenue...more
On September 13, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) released Revenue Procedure 2018-48 (the “Revenue Procedure”), which provides guidance on how certain items of foreign-related income are treated for purposes...more
On December 22, 2017, the President signed into law H.R. 1, informally known as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”), implementing sweeping changes to the United States tax regimes generally applicable to businesses. ...more
On Friday, December 15, the U.S. House of Representative and Senate conferees reached agreement on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) (the “Final Bill”), and released legislative text, an explanation, and the Joint Committee...more
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) (the “Senate bill”), just over two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its own version of the same legislation...more
Yesterday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) (the “House bill”). The House bill is identical to the draft bill approved by the House Ways and Means Committee on November 10. Late...more
UPDATE: The Senate Finance Committee last night released a revised version of the Chairman’s Mark of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. We are reviewing these changes and will release an update soon... On Thursday, November 9, the...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
Since FATCA’s implementation in 2010, investing in a Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) is a questionable decision. PFICs are reportable investments and their tax regime is punitive. Under FATCA, US Taxpayers’...more