AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - U.S. Tax Considerations for Scaling Across Borders
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On July 4th, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”). This alert expands upon our Firm’s prior alert and is intended to summarize the main tax law changes that may impact: (i) U.S....more
In this episode, Mike Burke, AGG Corporate partner and leader of the Ireland & Northern Ireland practice, explores U.S. tax considerations for foreign businesses scaling to the U.S., including issues such as the branch...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
In the international tax context, the source of a taxpayer’s income can have significant implications. The source of income may determine whether a taxpayer qualifies for a foreign tax credit with respect to the income. Or,...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
IRS Form 5471 is used by certain U.S. persons who are officers, directors, or shareholders in certain foreign corporations and must be attached to a covered Taxpayer’s Tax Return. On April 16, 2019, IRS announced the...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
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
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
• 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
The U.S. tax act enacted in December 2017 includes a number of provisions that impact high net worth families with U.S. connections. For families with U.S. members, changes to the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced an important new benefit to US corporations that own 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation. Specifically, a full participation exemption has been enacted that exempts certain foreign...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced several complex, hard to understand international tax provisions to the Internal Revenue Code. One of them is the tax on Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI). Beginning with...more
According to recent statistics, immigrants and their U.S.-born children now number approximately 84.3 million people, or 27% of the overall U.S. population. The countries from which the largest numbers of these individuals...more
Converting Subpart F Income into Qualified Dividends - U.S. shareholders of foreign corporations are generally not subject to tax on the earnings of such corporations until the earnings are repatriated to the...more