Following the initial public release of private letter ruling (PLR) 20242002 as part of a state rate proceeding, on June 28, 2024, the IRS publicly released that ruling, as well as two companion rulings obtained by other...more
The IRS recently issued private letter ruling (PLR) 107770-22 that involved a normalization issue of first impression, namely, whether payments received by a utility pursuant to an intercompany tax allocation agreement (TAA)...more
When entering into a partnership agreement where one partner is contributing cash and another partner is contributing appreciated property, inevitably, a tax advisor is going to ask, which Section 704(c) allocation method...more
In Cotto-Vázquez v. United States, CIV. NO.: 16-2807 (SCC) (D.P.R. March 11, 2021), Miguel Ángel Cotto-Vázquez (Cotto),1 the former four-time Puerto Rican boxing champion, became involved in another fight. This time he faced...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
While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has continued to issue guidance addressing the ability to deduct transaction costs, the doctrine of "Origin of the Claim" (OOC) developed over 50-plus years of case law is still the...more
The IRS published temporary and proposed regulations on allocations of creditable foreign tax expenditures (CFTEs). The regulations make various technical changes to the existing regulatory safe harbor for allocating CFTEs. ...more
I’m at the ABA Tax conference this week and one of this morning’s first panels included a discussion of hot topics in partnerships. Curtis Wilson, IRS Associate Chief Counsel in Passthroughs and Special Industries,...more
The IRS issued the much anticipated proposed regulations that severely curtail the practice of a fund manager waiving management fees in exchange for a share of future partnership profits. In essence the regulations tighten...more