AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - U.S. Tax Considerations for Scaling Across Borders
Podcast: Illinois Tool Works Inc. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
As the U.S. Senate is set to consider President Trump's domestic policy bill, non-U.S.-based multinational businesses and non-U.S. investors are preparing for wholesale changes to the U.S. international tax landscape,...more
This chart compares the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Revenue Proposals (the Greenbook), to the tax proposals in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) approved by the House Ways and Means Committee on September 15, 2021....more
On August 25, 2021, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and fellow Senate Finance Committee Democrats Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Mark R. Warner of Virginia released draft legislation, and a related summary,...more
The Kazakhstan Tax Code may change so that controlled foreign corporation rules will not apply to foreign persons that are residents of countries having a double tax treaty with Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan residents (both...more
The final and proposed regulations under sections 951A and 954 of the US Internal Revenue Code contain certain rules that may present planning opportunities—or possibly onerous results—depending on a taxpayer’s specific fact...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 16 – 20, 2019. December 16, 2019: The IRS released a notice extending the phase-in...more
The Treasury Department and the IRS have issued highly anticipated guidance in the area of stewardship expenses and R&D expenses. The 2019 Proposed Regulations also provide extensive guidance on allocating and apportioning...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
After the passage of Public Law No. 115-97, formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Reform Act”), U.S. individual shareholders of controlled foreign corporations (“CFCs”) were faced with a difficult decision. ...more
La mayor parte de la atención en torno a los aspectos internacionales de la Ley Pública n.° 115-97, anteriormente conocida como la Ley de Recortes Tributarios y Empleos (la “Ley de Reforma Fiscal”)... Originally published...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
At this point, private equity firms are very conscious that debt of their U.S. acquisition vehicles or portfolio companies cannot be guaranteed by controlled foreign corporations (CFCs), nor can more than 65 percent of the...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 recent tax law changes have focused primarily on corporate income tax, and in the international context, mostly on outbound tax matters. However, certain less publicized changes to the Code’s controlled foreign...more
The recently enacted tax reform act (the Act) significantly altered the U.S. taxation of foreign income. Perhaps most prominently, the Act allows U.S. corporations to fully deduct (and thus not pay tax on) dividends received...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Tax Act”) modifies Section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) by expanding the definition of “subpart F income” of United States shareholders (“U.S. shareholder”) for the last tax...more
The current focus of the international tax community is on the United States, and for good reason. In the midst of a contentious political landscape, months of anticipation, and a decidedly clandestine drafting process, U.S....more
La "Ley de Reducción de impuestos y empleos" (la "Ley") tiene el propósito declarado de que los EE.UU. se convierta a un sistema de impuestos “territorial". Antes de que se aprobara la Ley, la mayoría de las empresas de los...more
The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act”) has a stated purpose of converting the U.S. to a “territorial” tax system. Before the Act was approved, most U.S. companies were incentivized to keep their earnings offshore. In the...more
La "Ley de reducción de impuestos y empleos" (la "Ley") tiene una provisión que requiere que los Contribuyentes Estadounidenses que poseen el 10% o más de una Corporación Controlada Extranjera (Controlled Foreign...more
The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (the “Act") has a provision requiring U.S. Shareholder Taxpayers that own 10% or more of a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) and other “Specified Foreign Corporations” to pay a “transition tax”....more
For many years prudent international tax planning for multinational enterprises has included structures designed to minimize global taxes by developing or holding intangible property (IP) in foreign subsidiaries located in...more