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Key International Tax Changes From the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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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

Venable LLP

International Tax Reform Under the "One Big Beautiful Bill": What Global Businesses Need to Know

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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

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Event] Tax Symposium 2024 - May 14th - 15th, Chicago, IL

Discover the latest global developments and planning opportunities to stay ahead of the curve at McDermott’s Tax Symposium 2024. Join us in Chicago for a full day of programming designed to equip corporate tax leaders with...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Proposed Treasury Regulations Would Disallow Technique to Reduce Subpart F and GILTI Inclusions

On December 9, 2022, Treasury released proposed regulations that would prevent consolidated groups from engaging in certain related party transactions to reduce the group’s Subpart F and GILTI inclusions. Specifically,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Proposed Regs Affect PFIC Elections

On January 25, 2022, the IRS and Treasury proposed regulations that would treat U.S. partners, instead of their partnerships, as PFIC shareholders for making qualified electing fund, mark-to-market, or purging elections,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Build Back Better Act: Comparison of Senate Finance Committee and House Tax Provisions

Here's a summary of the new tax provisions in the Build Back Better Act proposed by the Senate Finance Committee, as compared to the version that the House passed on November 19, 2021....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

A Comparison of Recent Tax Proposals

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

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[Webinar] Freeman Law International Tax Symposium – General Attendee - November 18th - 19th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm CST

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Join leading tax experts from across the globe, as we discuss tax trends that are reshaping international taxation - An Experience Unlike Any Other - Find yourself on the cutting-edge of international tax law, with...more

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The Draft of the International Tax Overhaul: Where is Captain America?

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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

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Rules on Controlled Foreign Corporations in Kazakhstan May Change

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New IRS Rules on Timing of Income Recognition Raise Questions

On September 5, 2019, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the IRS released proposed regulations (Regulations) that would impact when accrual method taxpayers report amounts in gross income. Generally, Section 451 provides...more

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Looking for a GILTI-Free Structure? Try Estonia

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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

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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Las consecuencias (¿accidentales?) de la reforma fiscal sobre las estructuras de financiación entrantes

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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

Fenwick & West LLP

The New Foreign Tax Credit Proposed Regulations – An Executive Summary

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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

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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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CFC Guarantees and Pledges Still Relevant After Tax Reform

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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

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U.S. Tax Reform: Impacts and Opportunities for Mexican Businesses, Part 1 - A General Overview on Issues That U.S. and Mexican...

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• 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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Impact of US Tax Reform on Cross-Border Estate Planning

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

McDermott Will & Schulte

The New Participation Exemption: An Opportunity to Convert Ordinary Dividends into Qualified Dividends

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

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New Tax Law Eliminates 30-Day Safe Harbor Against CFC Status

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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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Taxpayers may have to pay Section 965 Transition Tax when filing their 2017 Tax Returns

Section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code requires certain U.S. Shareholders to pay a transition tax on the untaxed foreign earnings of certain Specified Foreign Corporations as if those earnings had been repatriated to the...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Tax Reform Act Changes to CFC Attribution Rules

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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Understanding the “GILTI” of the Tax Reform

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

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