Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
6/12/2025
/ Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) ,
Cryptoassets ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
GILTI tax ,
IRS ,
OECD ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
On March 28, 2022, the Biden Administration released the 2023 Fiscal Year Budget (the 2023 Budget). It is important to note that the Budget assumes the Build Back Better Act (the BBBA) will be enacted as passed by the House...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
9/1/2021
/ Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
Foreign Profits ,
GILTI tax ,
Green Book ,
International Tax Issues ,
OECD ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
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
7/8/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Budget Reconciliation ,
Congressional Committees ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) ,
GILTI tax ,
International Tax Issues ,
OECD ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reconciliation ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform
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
Recently released final regulations provide some relief to taxpayers that are subject to high foreign taxes on their global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI), but whether the GILTI high-tax exclusion is beneficial to any...more
Significant provisions of the 2020 Proposed Regulations addressing the application of section 163(j) to foreign corporations and their shareholders include:
..An election under which a controlled foreign corporation (CFC)...more
A year after the initial proposed BEAT regulations were released, Treasury and the IRS have issued a package of final and proposed regulations under § 59A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), the...more
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued a policy note document (Note) addressing the tax challenges of the digitalization of the economy under its action plan with respect to base erosion...more
2/4/2019
/ BEPS ,
Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Digital Services ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
GILTI tax ,
International Tax Issues ,
Multinationals ,
OECD ,
WTO
On November 28, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations concerning foreign tax credit determinations and related issues (Proposed Regulations) to take...more
On October 31, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) modifying the application of section 956 of the Internal Revenue Code of...more
11/7/2018
/ Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Dividends ,
GILTI tax ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Registered Investment Companies (RICs) ,
REIT ,
Section 956 ,
Tax Exemptions ,
U.S. Treasury
Public Law 115-97 (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)) added a new foreign income inclusion rule for global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) under section 951A. On September 13, 2018, the Department of the Treasury...more
9/25/2018
/ Controlled Foreign Corporations ,
Corporate Taxes ,
Foreign Tax Credits ,
GILTI tax ,
Income Taxes ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Partnerships ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Shareholders ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
U.S. Treasury