AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - U.S. Tax Considerations for Scaling Across Borders
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On July 4, 2025, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) became law. The OBBBA makes significant changes to domestic and international tax provisions, including provisions addressing bonus depreciation, research and...more
Durante años, había existido incertidumbre entre los profesionistas que se dedican a la materia fiscal sobre sobre si las ganancias obtenidas a mitad de año por una Corporación Extranjera Controlada (por sus siglas en inglés,...more
Section 245A: Tax Efficient Repatriation of a Foreign Subsidiary’s Earnings - Freeman Law frequently advises U.S. multinational corporations. United States-based international businesses are subject to complex reporting...more
For years, section 962 was a relatively obscure tax-planning mechanism. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, however, changed that, pushing the so-called section 962 election into vogue. Section 962 allows an individual shareholder of a...more
Private Equity: Offshore Investments and Phantom Income - Private equity funds pool capital for investment in privately-held businesses. Increasingly, PE funds are looking to global investment markets and foreign...more
Recently released Revenue Procedure 2021-26 (the Revenue Procedure) provides taxpayers with guidance regarding accounting method changes made on behalf of foreign corporations. The Revenue Procedure: ..Allows controlled...more
Our International Tax Group addresses an election under Section 962 available to individual U.S. shareholders of certain foreign corporations to be taxed as a C corporation, which before tax reform was a rarely utilized and...more
Two years after the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the most significant tax reform enacted in a generation, taxpayers continue to encounter substantial uncertainty arising from interpretations of new statutory...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
On October 2, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued Revenue Produce 2019-40 (the “Revenue Procedure”) and proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”)...more
The IRS released Proposed Regulations and a Revenue Procedure addressing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s repeal of Section 958(b)(4). Our International Tax Group explores how this guidance affects numerous provisions of the Code....more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 30 – October 4, 2019. September 30, 2019: The IRS published a draft of the tax year...more
On October 1, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2019-40 (Revenue Procedure) and proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) addressing issues related to the repeal of section 958(b)(4) by the...more
Since December 22, 2017, corporate tax practitioners in the United States have been predominantly focused on the impact of legislation commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which was signed into law on that...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of August 19 – 23, 2019. August 20, 2019: The IRS released a proposed regulation that provides...more
The Situation: On June 14, 2019, the IRS and U.S. Treasury released more than 500 pages of proposed, temporary, and final regulations addressing the taxation of U.S.-controlled foreign corporations. The Development:...more
On June 14, 2019, the IRS and Treasury finalized the global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) regulations (T.D. 9866) and issued proposed regulations (REG-101828-19) that will provide significant relief to investors in...more
The 2017 Tax Act added a new tax on US shareholders of controlled foreign corporations (“CFCs”), the tax on Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (“GILTI”). GILTI often includes active business income and thus has a widespread...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
Once Upon A Time- I recently recalled a client that was referred to us a few years back, shortly before it was acquired by a larger company. The client was closely held by U.S. individuals and by an S corporation, and was...more
Estonia, the small Baltic country of just 1.3 million people situated halfway between Sweden and Russia, was named “the most advanced digital society in the world” by Wired magazine. According to recent figures, Estonian...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been called a lot of things by a lot of different people. Certain provisions of the Act, however,coupled with recently proposed regulations thereunder, may result in its being known as the...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 added section 951A to the Internal Revenue Code. This new section requires a U.S. shareholder of a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) to include in gross income the shareholder’s Global Intangible...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