International

  • September 03, 2024

    NZ Ratifies Slovakia Tax Agreement, Amends Austria Treaty

    New Zealand government ratified a new treaty to avoid double taxation with Slovakia as well as amendments to a previous treaty with Austria, the country's tax agency said.

  • September 03, 2024

    Non-EU Cos. Need Clarity On Public Tax Reporting, Firms Say

    The European Union should clarify how multinational corporations headquartered outside the bloc need to format tax data they report under new public disclosure rules, global accounting firms said.

  • September 03, 2024

    Higher UK Windfall Tax Will Cut Revenue, Says Industry Group

    The U.K. government's plan to raise the energy windfall tax in November may cost HM Treasury around £12 billion ($15.7 billion) in tax revenue, according to an industry group.

  • September 03, 2024

    Norway Seeks Input On Beneficial Ownership Register Access

    Norway's Ministry of Finance is seeking comments on a proposal laying out rules regarding access to the country's beneficial ownership register, the ministry said Tuesday.

  • September 03, 2024

    IRS Issues More Edits For Foreign Currency Accounting Regs

    The Internal Revenue Service issued further corrections Tuesday to proposed rules that would adjust the timing for when companies can use certain accounting methods for gains or losses that arise from foreign currency transactions.

  • August 30, 2024

    Alvarez & Marsal Appoints Tax Experts As Managing Directors

    Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC appointed tax experts from Anderson and Deloitte as its new managing directors, the firm announced.

  • August 30, 2024

    Danish Gov't Pledges No Ponzi Analogies At $2.1B Tax Trial

    The Danish tax authority won't compare pension funds, investors and attorneys it has accused of defrauding Denmark in a $2.1 billion tax refund scheme to a Ponzi scheme or infamous perpetrator Bernie Madoff, it said Friday in New York federal court.

  • August 30, 2024

    US Seeks Trade Talks In Dispute Over Canada's Digital Tax

    The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced Friday that it has requested dispute settlement discussions with Canada regarding the country's recently enacted digital services tax, which the USTR claims discriminates against U.S. companies.

  • August 30, 2024

    Whistleblower Seeks 2nd Bid At $690M Claim In DC Circ.

    A whistleblower denied up to $690 million, or 30%, of the $2.3 billion collected in an Internal Revenue Service offshore voluntary disclosure program asked for a D.C. Circuit panel to rehear his case Friday, saying its original opinion included numerous mistakes and misunderstandings.

  • August 30, 2024

    UK's Labour Gov't Urged To Raise Capital Gains Tax

    The Labour government is facing calls to raise the capital gains tax despite financial firms advising investors to sell off their assets or even leave the United Kingdom over the possible tax hike.

  • August 30, 2024

    IRS Corrects Proposed Rules To Address Pillar 2 Losses

    The Internal Revenue Service issued corrections Friday to proposed rules that outline when foreign taxes under the Pillar Two international minimum tax agreement could trigger long-standing U.S. rules that aim to prevent companies from what is known as double-dipping the same economic loss.

  • August 30, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Paul Weiss, Squire

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Oneok reaches two agreements with energy infrastructure companies worth a total $5.9 billion, McKesson inks a $2.49 billion deal for a cancer center, and First Busey and CrossFirst Bankshares agree to a $917 million merger.

  • August 30, 2024

    Neb. Justices Affirm Nix Of Berkshire Unit's Tax Deduction Bid

    A Nebraska tax deduction for certain dividends doesn't apply to income repatriated under the 2017 federal tax overhaul, the state Supreme Court affirmed Friday in rejecting arguments from a Berkshire Hathaway entity that the state's tax system excluded the foreign earnings from tax.

  • August 29, 2024

    Tax Court Rejects Bid To Change Ruling Post-Chevron

    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent overturning of the Chevron standard of judicial deference to agencies when interpreting statutes does not justify reconsidering a Cayman Islands partnership's tax liability, the U.S. Tax Court ruled.

  • August 29, 2024

    4th Circ. Won't Revive Whistleblower's Credit Suisse Tax Suit

    The Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a former Credit Suisse employee's whistleblower case that alleged the Swiss bank continued to help clients evade taxes after it made a related plea deal with the U.S., saying a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the False Claims Act could not save the case.

  • August 29, 2024

    Tax Admins Advised To Tailor Structures To Needs Over Time

    Tax administrations must tailor their organization structures to their specific challenges and environments to adapt to modern problems, not just reshuffle organization charts, several international tax groups said Thursday.

  • August 29, 2024

    Day Pitney Lands Former Reuters Tax Counsel In Conn.

    Day Pitney LLP continued its recent growth in its tax practice in Connecticut with the addition of an experienced tax attorney from Thomson Reuters.

  • August 29, 2024

    EU Should Ensure Public Understands Tax Data, Execs Say

    The European Union should specify that its disclosure requirements for corporate tax information don't reflect multinational companies' overall operations, a group representing in-house tax practitioners said in comments published Thursday, saying the public could otherwise misunderstand the data.

  • August 29, 2024

    Brazil Seeks Comments On Transfer Pricing Guidelines

    Brazil is seeking public comments on proposed regulations related to its 2023 adoption of new transfer pricing rules, including the application of the international arm's-length standard, the country's revenue agency said Thursday.

  • August 29, 2024

    UK Reports £300M Rise In Tax Relief To Creative Industries

    Creative industries received £2.2 billion ($2.9 billion) in tax relief from the U.K. in the 2022-23 tax year, an increase of £300 million over the prior year largely driven by more claims from high-end TV and theater productions, HM Revenue & Customs said Thursday.

  • August 29, 2024

    Sky Sports Rugby Pundit Loses Bid To Duck £700K Tax Bill

    Rugby commentator Stuart Barnes has lost his attempt to escape a tax bill of almost £700,000 ($921,000) as a tribunal ruled that he owed the money because a contract between his company and Sky was equivalent to an employer-employee relationship.

  • August 28, 2024

    IRS Declines Watchdog's Ask For Attys In Talks With Big Cos.

    The IRS declined a recommendation by its internal watchdog to require the agency's counsel to attend talks held with large multinational corporations by its appellate division, which agents say thwarts their ability to correctly enforce the economic substance doctrine, according to a report.

  • August 28, 2024

    Feds Looks To Toss Ex-Citizens' Renunciation Fee Challenge

    The federal government asked a D.C. federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by former U.S. citizens who want their $2,350 citizenship renunciation fee refunded, arguing during a Wednesday hearing that the United States is immune from the litigation and the plaintiffs can't relitigate claims that they already lost.

  • August 28, 2024

    IRS Corrects Proposed Foreign Currency Accounting Regs

    The Internal Revenue Service issued corrections Wednesday to proposed rules that would adjust the timing for when companies could opt to use what is known as the mark-to-market accounting method for gains or losses that arise from foreign currency transactions.

  • August 28, 2024

    Jury Justified In Dismissing $2.2M FBAR Case, Court Rules

    A financial adviser will not face a new trial after an Arizona federal court ruled there was sufficient evidence for a jury to clear him in January of failing to report foreign bank accounts, sparing him at least $2.2 million in penalties.

Expert Analysis

  • Stock Buyback Excise Tax Guidance A Mixed Bag For SPACs

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    Recent IRS guidance on the new stock repurchase excise tax includes a welcome exception for publicly traded special-purpose acquisition companies but does not exclude redemptions in connection with a de-SPAC transaction, and further guidance is needed to clarify ambiguities around the exception's application, say Olga Bogush and Evgeny Magidenko at ArentFox Schiff.

  • The IRS' APA Rulemaking Journey: There And Back Again

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    Attorneys at Dentons examine recent challenges in which taxpayers successfully argued Internal Revenue Service rulemaking was invalid under the Administrative Procedure Act, how tax exceptionalism and U.S. Supreme Court regulatory deference prompted such challenges, and similar challenges the agency will likely face following this line of cases.

  • ECJ Fiat Ruling Sets Clear Boundaries For EU State Aid Law

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    The European Court of Justice's recent landmark decision in Fiat v. Commission limiting the commission’s attempts to circumvent the lack of EU powers in the area of tax law has important implications in EU state aid law and beyond, say Andreas Reindl and Pietro Stella at Van Bael.

  • Unpacking The Interim Guidance On New Stock Buyback Tax

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    The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service's recent notice on applying the newly effective excise tax on stock repurchases provides much-needed clarity on the tax's scope, which is much broader than anticipated given its underlying policy rationale, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

  • IRS Will Use New Resources To Increase Scrutiny In 2023

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    The new year promises to be a busy one for the Internal Revenue Service, which is poised to apply the boost in funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act to bolster and expand its enforcement capability, and there are four areas to watch, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • How Japan's Implementation May Change The Pillar 2 Debate

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    Japan’s outline of proposed legislation adopting a primary component of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 15% global minimum tax will increase pressure on countries — including the U.S. — that have not committed to adopting Pillar Two, says Takato Masuda of Nishimura & Asahi.

  • Foreign Tax Credit Proposal Is Some Help, But More Is Needed

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    New foreign tax credit regulations proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department provided some measure of relief on cost recovery and royalty withholding, two of the most troublesome aspects of the 2021 final foreign tax credit regulations, but the final regulations are still harmful to many taxpayers, making litigation inevitable, say attorneys at Fenwick.

  • IRS' Tax Gap Statistics Don't Paint A Full Compliance Picture

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    The Internal Revenue Service's recent report indicating a widening tax gap sheds important light on tax compliance, underlines key pressure points and provides insights into how tax administration could be improved; but tax gap estimates also have their limits, says Joyce Beebe at Rice University.

  • How High Court Could Change FBAR Penalty Landscape

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    On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Bittner v. U.S., a case that will affect many people penalized for failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, and there are important procedural implications should the government's position be reversed, say Reuben Muller and Andreas Apostolides at Cole Schotz.

  • IRS Memo May Change IP Royalty Tax Prepayment Planning

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    A recent Internal Revenue Service advice memorandum finding a taxpayer was not permitted to prepay tax on contingent royalties after contributing intellectual property offshore is a noteworthy departure from earlier guidance that highlights potential differences between actual and deemed licenses, says William Skinner at Fenwick.

  • What IRS Funding Increase Means For Taxpayers

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    The Internal Revenue Service will first use the influx of funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to address customer support and personnel issues, but with over half the money allocated to enforcement, corporations and high-net-worth individuals will face increased scrutiny, say Patrick McCann Jr. and Jasen Hanson at Chamberlain Hrdlicka.

  • 6 Tax Considerations For Life Sciences Collaboration Deals

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    Given recent IRS guidance and changes to certain tax rates and deductions, biotech and life sciences companies entering into collaboration agreements should assess several unique taxation issues affecting matters ranging from research and development expenditures to profit-sharing terms, say attorneys at Orrick and Andersen Tax.

  • Rushed Multilateral Negotiations Caused Two-Pillar Tax Mess

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    Cracks appearing in the two pillars of the 2021 global tax plan stem from a multilateral tax policy process that rushed to issue rules without first resolving fundamental differences between countries or ensuring that the U.S., a key player, could implement them, says Jefferson VanderWolk at Squire Patton.

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