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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Tax Bytes: Week of September 1, 2025

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

IRS Change in Application Requirements for Obtaining Employer Identification Number Could Affect Many International Investors in...

Effective May 13, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) changed the requirements for obtaining an employer identification number (EIN}. The IRS no longer permits an entity to be named as the “responsible party” on IRS Form...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Revised EIN Application Process Permits only Individuals to Serve as the “Responsible Party”

An entity operating in the U.S. needs a U.S. Federal employer identification numbers (“EIN”) in order to open a bank account in the United States, act as an employer, file a tax return and complete certain other corporate...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Opening a U.S. Bank Account Can be Much More Onerous than you Think and Can Delay Your Cross-Border Transaction or Growth Plans in...

French investments in the U.S. vary largely in terms of scale and nature, but whatever it is a small French startup only creating an even smaller U.S. subsidiary or a large French corporation acquiring and restructuring an...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Treasury Targets Related-Party Debt with Proposed Regulations to Treat Debt as Equity

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Proposed regulations would establish a sweeping framework to treat debt as equity in an effort to curb the use of “excessive” related-party debt. On April 4, 2016, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the...more

Alston & Bird

Proposed Regulations Nix Foreign Goodwill Exception to Tax on Outbound Transfers

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The IRS and Treasury recently issued proposed regulations under Section 367 with bad news for taxpayers. Citing aggressive taxpayer positions, the proposed rules do away with the foreign goodwill exception and restrict the...more

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