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Death, Taxes and Politics: The Future of Tax Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
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2020 Presidential Candidates' Tax Proposals
Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
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Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
Investment Management Update – Exit Strategies
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Taking Advantage of Opportunity Zones: A Panel Discussion
[WEBINAR] Labor & Employment Law: What Changed in 2017
Impact of Tax Reform on Charitable Giving
Lawyers on Tap: Tap Tips for Entity Formation and Taxation
Podcast - New Unrelated Business Taxable Income Liability for Providing Certain Fringe Benefits
Life Sciences Quarterly: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Implications for Life Science Business
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBB) into law, making permanent the reduced individual tax rates and brackets established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and modifying a...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Committee on Ways and Means (WMC) released a draft of the tax provisions of the highly anticipated budget reconciliation bill, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBB), and on May 14,...more
In less than four months, the citizens of the United States will be electing their next President to a four-year term. They will also be deciding which of the two major political parties will “control” the Senate, the House,...more
In mid-January, the House introduced the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act (Act). The Joint Committee of Taxation has released its explanation of the Act, and the House Ways and means Committee has released a...more
Many of you, perhaps most, may have read about a case that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during its current term. The case, Moore v. United States, comes out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court...more
Our “GILTI Conscience” team was joined by colleagues Paul Oosterhuis and Eric Sensenbrenner to discuss what companies can expect now that Pillar Two implementation is becoming a reality. ...more
The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in the case Moore v. United States to review a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming application of the “transition tax” under Section 965, enacted as part of the Tax...more
It’s Complicated- The Code includes a number of complex rules that are aimed at those overseas business and investment activities of U.S. taxpayers that Congress has determined may result in the improper deferral or...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
Two recent federal district court decisions evaluated whether the process historically utilized by the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to issue guidance satisfied the requirements of the...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
In this final blog post on the House Ways and Means Tax Bill, we address the international tax proposals in the Bill, JCX-43-21. The international tax proposals are fewer in number than the domestic and transfer tax...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
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of August 10, 2020 – August 14, 2020... August 10, 2020: The IRS published corrections to a notice...more
We invite you to join us for our Tax in the City®: A Women’s Tax Roundtable in Seattle. We plan to discuss, among other topics, post-TCJA tax treatment of foreign branches (and disregarded entities), new BEAT guidance, an...more
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act, or Act) was signed into law. The Act provides much-needed financial relief to businesses in the United States. While most of the aid is...more
The U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA), which was enacted at the end of 2017, dramatically changed the U.S. cross-border tax regime. Many of the TCJA's international tax reforms that have received considerable attention...more
Mark your calendars for our spring 2020 Tax in the City®: A Women’s Tax Roundtable in Seattle—a forum for women tax professionals to discuss technical state, federal and international tax issues in a collegial and...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
IRC Section 965 (Treatment of Deferred Foreign Income Upon Transition to Participation Exemption System of Taxation) was part of the TCJA enacted on December 22, 2017. ...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brought sweeping changes to the U.S. international tax system. Along with those changes came substantial taxpayer uncertainty as to how the TCJA’s rules apply to their unique circumstances....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
The source of income is a critical component of U.S. tax rules for both U.S. taxpayers operating internationally (namely, with respect to foreign tax credit planning) and foreign persons with investment or other activity in...more
On November 4, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a new Large Business and International (LB&I) compliance campaign regarding Section’s 965 transition tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This is one of...more