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Channel Islands a strategic hub for employee share incentive plans

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In today’s competitive business environment, share incentive plans continue to be a popular tool for aligning employee interests with those of management and shareholders. Guernsey and Jersey, as leading offshore financial...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The One Big Beautiful Bill: Tax Provisions in Final Legislation Impacting Domestic and Multinational Businesses

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 1, commonly known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBB), into law. OBBB was initially approved by the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 (the House Bill), followed by...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Senate Draft Tax Provisions Impacting REITs and Foreign Investors

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On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its draft tax title for inclusion in the Senate’s version of the budget reconciliation bill, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “OBBBA”). While the Senate...more

White & Case LLP

Important Tax Update: Luxembourg Court Decision on Interest Free Loans and Debt to Equity Ratio – A Global Impact

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International transactions, such as private equity deals, mergers and acquisitions, and financing arrangements, frequently leverage Luxembourg entities as holding companies or joint ventures. It is common for such companies...more

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Aviso de socios

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El 6 de junio de 2024, se publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el Anexo 1-A de la Primera Resolución de Modificaciones a la Resolución Miscelánea Fiscal para 2024. En dicho documento se efectuaron diversas...more

Alston & Bird

The Inversion Sweet Spot

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Our Federal Tax Group finds the sweet spot for corporate inversions. If a U.S. corporation’s shareholders obtain between 50% and 60% of the stock, the exchange could be taxable....more

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Shareholder and intra-group Loans – be aware of taxation risks

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Most company groups rely on shareholder and / or intragroup loans in order to manage the liquidity requirements within the group and easily transfer cash from one entity to another as and when needed. While discussions about...more

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Doing Business in the United States

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Companies operating in the United States encounter numerous legal and regulatory issues arising from doing business in the world’s largest economy. Anticipating and dealing appropriately with those issues can improve markedly...more

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US Withdrawal From International Tax Talks Pulls Numerous Trading Partners Closer to New Tariffs

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Lighthizer testified that tariffs will be imposed if trading partners enforce digital service taxes. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Inclusive Framework aims to reach an agreement on a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s Impact on Cross-Border Transactions

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

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Section 1446(f) Proposed Regulations: Key Guidance on Partnership Interest Transfers by Non-U.S. Persons

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On May 13, 2019, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Treasury Department published proposed regulations providing guidance on the rules imposing withholding and reporting requirements under the Code on dispositions...more

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UK Tax Round Up - April 2019

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UK Case Law Developments - Damages on share sales same as on other sales - In Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd v ING Bank NV, the Commercial Court has held that the measure of damages for breach of warranty in...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Understanding How to Compute a U.S. shareholder’s GILTI inclusion

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

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Feeling GILTI Enough to Make a Section 962 Election?

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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

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UK Tax Round Up - January 2019

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UK Developments - Amendments to the Finance Bill – entrepreneurs' relief and intangibles - Three significant changes have been made to the Finance Bill published last October which will be included in the Finance Act...more

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UK Tax Round Up - October 2018

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General UK Tax Developments - CIOT responds to the draft profit fragmentation provisions in the Finance Bill 2019 - The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has published its response to the profit fragmentation...more

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Impact of Tax Reform on the Purchase and Sale of Controlled Foreign Corporations — Selected Considerations

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The application of §1248 and §338(g) in the context of the purchase or sale of a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) has long been one of the most complex areas of the tax code. The recently enacted tax reform act — herein,...more

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IRS releases Notice 2018-26 - retroactively disregarding certain accounting method changes and entity classification elections

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-26, which provides guidance under section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code regarding the “transition tax.” Section 965 imposes a transition tax...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Transition tax - enough about how it works; here is what doesn’t work

The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2018-16 (the Notice) providing additional guidance regarding the transition tax in section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code of...more

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New Tax Act: 2017 Trap for 10% U.S. Owners of Foreign Corporations

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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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Shareholders of S Corps can defer payment of Transition Tax

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) includes 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

McDermott Will & Schulte

Expansion of Subpart F under the Tax Reform Act

Under Subpart F, certain types of income and investments of earnings of a foreign corporation controlled by US shareholders (controlled foreign corporation, or CFC) are deemed distributed to the US shareholders and subject to...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Accionistas Estadounidenses que poseen el 10% o más tienen un mandatorio nuevo “impuesto de transición”

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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

U.S. 10% Shareholder Taxpayers have a new Mandatory “Transition Tax”

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

Holland & Knight LLP

Main Effects of U.S. Tax Reform on Foreign Taxpayers

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President Donald Trump signed the U.S. tax reform bill previously entitled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on December 22, 2017, enacting comprehensive U.S. tax reform with most provisions becoming effective starting on...more

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