International

  • September 09, 2024

    HMRC Fails To Nab £4B In Small-Biz Tax Evasion, Report Says

    HM Revenue & Customs has failed to stop small businesses from dodging more than £4.4 billion ($5.8 billion) in taxes because it lacks a focused strategy to tackle different tax evasion schemes, the U.K.'s National Audit Office reported Monday.

  • September 06, 2024

    Federal Tax Policies To Watch In The Rest Of The Year

    As Congress returns to Washington, D.C., after the August recess, proposals including disaster tax relief and an agreement to provide tax treaty-like benefits to Taiwanese residents could be readied to be included in year-end legislation. Here, Law360 examines federal tax policies to watch during the last four months of 2024.

  • September 06, 2024

    FDII Covers Overseas Services For US Gov't, Memo Says

    Government contractors that provide services to U.S. operations overseas are allowed to claim the deduction for foreign-derived intangible income, the IRS said in one of two internal memos released Friday that address foreign income issues.

  • September 06, 2024

    Broaden Tax Bases For Cleaner Energy Transition, EU Says

    The impact on government revenues from the transition to cleaner energy, including diminishing fossil fuel tax receipts and increased spending on subsidies supporting green technology, necessitates that countries develop broader tax bases, the European Commission said.

  • September 06, 2024

    4 Key Complications 3 Years After Pillar 2

    Three years ago, countries around the world outlined an agreed-upon minimum corporate tax system in an eight-page document that couldn't have foreseen the full scope of complications that later emerged during implementation, including frictions with existing tax laws. Here, Law360 looks at four key issues that countries and multinational corporations are grappling with as Pillar Two turns three.

  • September 06, 2024

    China Complains To WTO About Canada EV Surtaxes

    China is looking for the World Trade Organization to step in to address proposed Canadian surtaxes on imported Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum, taxes that a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce said Friday violate the organization's rules.

  • September 06, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Debevoise, Bennett, Orrick

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Verizon reaches a deal to absorb Frontier in a deal worth $20 billion, First Majestic agrees to buy Gatos Silver for $970 million, and Epam Systems inks a $630 million purchase of Neoris.

  • September 06, 2024

    Vialto Partners Member Joins Baker McKenzie As Partner

    Baker McKenzie has hired a tax partner in Washington, D.C., from Vialto Partners, a business consulting firm, the firm announced Thursday.

  • September 06, 2024

    EU Should Align Disclosure Standards, Industry Group Says

    The European Union should align its forthcoming public tax reporting rules with the same systems in use under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's non-public reporting system, the American Chamber of Commerce in the EU said.

  • September 05, 2024

    Unconstitutionality Of Transparency Act Clear, 11th Circ. Told

    A small business group and one of its members have told the Eleventh Circuit that an Alabama federal judge correctly ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional, so there was no need for them to demonstrate that the law fails to pass constitutional muster.

  • September 05, 2024

    Liberty Global Urges 10th Circ. To Grant $248M Tax Credit

    The U.S. Tax Court improperly applied an Internal Revenue Code provision to some of the $2.8 billion gain from Liberty Global's sale of a Japanese entity, the telecommunications company said in urging the Tenth Circuit to overturn the resulting rejection of a $248 million tax credit.

  • September 05, 2024

    Holland & Knight Appoints Former Perkins Coie Tax Partner

    Holland & Knight LLP appointed a partner to its Portland, Oregon, office who previously served as a partner in energy tax law for Perkins Coie LLP, the firm announced.

  • September 05, 2024

    Sen. Finance Panel To Hold Hearing On Tax Policy, Avoidance

    The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing Sept. 12 covering the 2025 tax policy debate and tax avoidance strategies, it announced Thursday.

  • September 05, 2024

    Broad, Low-Rate DST May Placate US, Ex-OECD Chief Tells EU

    The European Union might be able to break an impasse with the U.S. in negotiations on taxing the digital economy by proposing a digital services tax with a wide base and a low rate, former OECD tax chief Pascal Saint-Amans told Paolo Gentiloni, the bloc's economics commissioner.

  • September 05, 2024

    UK Extends Startup Investment Tax Incentives Through 2035

    Two U.K. tax incentives that encourage private investment in small companies in order to boost innovation and otherwise stimulate economic growth have been extended for 10 years, HM Treasury said.

  • September 05, 2024

    Tax Pros Want Aussie PM To Halt Code Of Conduct Changes

    Six groups representing Australian tax professionals and accountants called on the country's prime minister to step in to stop an "unfair" bill updating the code of conduct for tax agent services if discussions with the country's Treasury don't produce what they say are needed changes.

  • September 04, 2024

    IRS' Economic Substance Authority Has Limits, Tax Court Told

    The U.S. Tax Court and other federal courts have the authority to conduct an initial analysis of a transaction in cases where the Internal Revenue Service is challenging the economic substance of the transaction, a manufacturers advocacy group said Wednesday in an amicus brief.

  • September 04, 2024

    New Zealand Looking To Nearly Triple Its Tourist Levy

    New Zealand's government is planning to increase a levy on tourists to NZ$100 ($62) per visit, nearly tripling the current rate, according to a joint statement from the country's conservation and tourism ministries.

  • September 04, 2024

    Irish Tax Surplus Too Reliant On Few Cos., Watchdog Says

    It's dangerous for the Irish government to fund long-term plans with corporate tax windfalls pouring into its coffers for over a decade, as three foreign-owned multinational corporations are providing a growing share, risking volatility in an otherwise healthy economy, a parliamentary watchdog said.

  • September 04, 2024

    Singapore's Annual Corporate Tax Revenue Climbs 26%

    Singapore collected SG$80.3 billion ($61.6 billion) in tax revenue in fiscal year 2023-24, a 17% increase over the prior year, thanks in large part to a 25.6% increase in corporate income tax receipts, pushing that total to SG$29 billion, the country's revenue agency said Wednesday.

  • September 04, 2024

    Swiss To Impose Second Portion Of Pillar 2 Starting In 2025

    Switzerland will implement the income inclusion rule portion of the OECD's Pillar Two standards to fight tax base erosion and profit shifting starting in 2025, its Federal Council said Wednesday, complementing its establishment of the 15% global minimum corporate income tax this year.

  • September 03, 2024

    11th Circ. Trims $12.6M FBAR Fine In 8th Amendment Split

    Some of the $12.6 million in penalties the IRS on imposed a man for willfully failing to report foreign bank accounts were in violation of the Eighth Amendment's bar on excessive fines, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, creating an apparent circuit split.

  • September 03, 2024

    Bahrain Adopting Global Minimum Tax In 2025

    Multinational corporations making more than €750 million ($828 million) annually operating in Bahrain will be subject to the OECD's 15% global minimum corporate income tax starting in 2025, the country's tax agency said.

  • September 03, 2024

    UN Tax Rule On Payments Best For Many Gov'ts, Group Says

    Developing countries should seek to add the United Nations' version of a minimum tax rule on payments to their bilateral tax treaties and to adopt corresponding laws domestically while approaching the OECD's more restrictive multilateral version with caution, an advocacy group said Tuesday.

  • September 03, 2024

    Ex-Defense Contractor Arrested In $350M Tax Evasion Case

    A former defense contractor who, with his wife, is facing a 30-count indictment alleging they were involved in a decades-long scheme to defraud the U.S. government and avoid taxes on more than $350 million in income was arrested Tuesday.

Expert Analysis

  • How Foreign Info Return Penalty Case May Benefit Taxpayers

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    The U.S. Tax Court's recent decision that the Internal Revenue Service cannot penalize taxpayers for failing to file foreign corporation information returns may give similarly situated taxpayers an opportunity to also avoid penalties, provided they protect their rights before the decision is overturned or mooted by legislation, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • The Nuts And Bolts Of IRS Domestic Content Tax Credit

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    Recent IRS guidance provides specifics on how renewable energy projects can qualify for bonus tax credits by meeting U.S. domestic content rules, but also creates a qualification framework that will be complicated for project developers to navigate, say Scott Cockerham and Wolfram Pohl at Orrick.

  • Taxing The Digital Economy: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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    U.S. tech companies should watch for important developments in international taxation, including the resolution of Apple's decade-old state aid case, growing frustration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's global tax plan and adoption of the digital services tax instead, says Joyce Beebe at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

  • Big Tax Changes For Multinational Cos. In Budget Proposal

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    The Biden administration’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposes changes that would materially alter decades-old Internal Revenue Code provisions, requiring a shift in multinational corporations' tax planning strategies comparable to that required after enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, say Xenia Garofalo and Kyle Colonna at Eversheds Sutherland.

  • Senate Credit Suisse Report Puts Attention On Banks, Trusts

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    The Senate Finance Committee's recent finding that Credit Suisse violated a plea agreement struck over its role in enabling offshore tax evasion has important ramifications for banks and trusts, including how they onboard, document and report on transactions relevant to U.S. reporting requirements, say Will Barry and Ian Herbert at Miller & Chevalier.

  • Seeking IRS Accountability For Faulty Microcaptive Notice

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    Like the taxpayers in Standard Insurances v. U.S. seeking to expand earlier wins in microcaptive insurance cases that limit IRS use of improperly obtained information, others should consider ways to hold the agency accountable and provide incentive for it to follow the law going forward, says Joshua Smeltzer at Gray Reed.

  • Biden Admin. Proposals Both Encourage And Thwart EV Adoption

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    While the Biden administration has been aggressively focused on promoting electric vehicles from the start, its recently issued guidance on EV tax credits and its restrictive new auto emissions proposal create a sense of implementation whiplash that may frustrate manufacturers and consumers, says Levi McAllister at Morgan Lewis.

  • The Key Issues Keeping Transfer Pricing A Top Tax Concern

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    Several challenges preventing a global economic reemergence from the pandemic era are making practitioners reevaluate commonly used transfer pricing models, and embrace new technologies and ways of doing business, say Farnaz Amini and Sophia Castro Jurado at Marcum.

  • Curtailing Offshore Tax-Advantaged Investment In China

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    The U.S. government's plans to establish a new outbound investment regime hold the potential to arrest Chinese companies' increasing use of offshore, tax-advantaged locations to raise capital, says David Plotinsky at Morgan Lewis.

  • Cos. May Want To Wait Out US-EU Green Incentives Fight

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    As the European Union considers measures to compete with the Inflation Reduction Act's incentives for U.S. production of clean tech, and EU and U.S. officials discuss a possible compromise, companies in the green sector should consider taking a wait-and-see approach to investment decisions, says Todd Thacker at Goldberg Segalla.

  • India's Budget Proposals May Ease Entry For Certain Sectors

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    India’s recently released budget includes proposals to facilitate doing business in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City and moderate thousands of compliance requirements, opening up new opportunities for foreign businesses in the digital infrastructure, manufacturing and renewable energy sectors, say Mukesh Butani and Seema Kejriwal at BMR Legal.

  • High Court Ax Of Atty-Client Privilege Case Deepens Split

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent dismissal of In re: Grand Jury as improvidently granted maintains a three-way circuit split on the application of attorney-client privilege to multipurpose communications, although the justices have at least shown a desire to address it, say Trey Bourn and Thomas DiStanislao at Butler Snow.

  • US-India Advance Pricing Resolutions Should Reassure Cos.

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    The United States' and India's tax authorities' recent resolution of a significant number of pending advance pricing agreements should reduce taxpayer uncertainty, reassure companies of the nations' good working relationship and improve India's investment environment, say Miller Williams and Caroline Setliffe at Eversheds Sutherland.

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