International
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April 18, 2024
$32B More In Tax Yielded In Fiscal '23 Closed Audits, IRS Says
The Internal Revenue Service closed nearly 583,000 tax return audits in fiscal year 2023, resulting in $31.9 billion of recommended additional tax after examination, the agency said Thursday in its annual data book.
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April 18, 2024
Tax Deadline Near For Irish Corporate Warehoused Debt
Companies in Ireland taking advantage of the country's debt warehousing regime are encouraged to meet with the tax department ahead of a May 1 deadline to arrange agreements to pay off their liabilities, the country's finance minister said.
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April 18, 2024
HMRC Opens Consultation On Payroll Tax In Freeports
The U.K. tax authority is mulling changes to National Insurance, a payroll levy used to fund state pensions and healthcare, for employees working in special economic zones known as freeports.
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April 18, 2024
Transfer Pricing And Dancing: Recalling KPMG's Sean Foley
Sean Foley, who died suddenly in September, was a devoted husband, father, brother and friend and a brilliant colleague. He was one of the world's top experts in an area of international tax known as transfer pricing, where he became the global leader of KPMG's practice.
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April 18, 2024
UN Tax Work Should Be Consensus-Driven, EU Official Says
The work on international taxation at the United Nations should be driven by consensus, as otherwise, whatever agreement comes out of the process won't be accepted globally, a senior European Union tax official said Thursday.
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April 17, 2024
EV Tax Credit Restrictions, Trade Bills Advance In House
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced several trade bills Wednesday that would impose more restrictions for new electric vehicles to qualify for a federal tax credit, assert congressional authority in agreements with foreign governments, and renew the country's largest and oldest trade preferences program.
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April 17, 2024
Gov't Officials Urge Global Cooperation On Taxing Wealth
Global cooperation on taxing the wealthiest individuals and companies is necessary to address climate change and create social justice, government officials from Brazil, France and Nigeria said Wednesday at the International Monetary Fund's spring meeting.
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April 17, 2024
Swedish Tax Investigations Add $90M To Crypto Miners' Bills
Investigations revealed that a number of cryptocurrency mining centers in Sweden misrepresented their business dealings, which led to the Swedish Tax Agency doling out a total of 990 million Swedish krona ($90 million) in increased tax liabilities, the agency said Wednesday.
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April 17, 2024
Consensus Key To UN Tax Progress, Developing Nations Say
Achieving consensus is important to ensure progress on the United Nations framework convention on tax, the top group for developing countries to coordinate on financial policy said in a formal statement.
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April 17, 2024
Aussie Tax Office Misses Transfer Pricing Review Goals
In each of the past two years, the Australian Taxation Office came up short of its goal to review every use of transfer pricing for related party debt made by entities included in two major economic categories, a government audit revealed Wednesday.
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April 17, 2024
Johnston Carmichael Adds Ex-Alvarez Tax Pro In Glasgow
U.K. accounting and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has recruited an accountant from Alvarez & Marsal to work as a financial services tax partner in its Glasgow office.
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April 17, 2024
Canada Proposes Top-End Tier To Boost Capital Gains Tax
Canada's government is seeking to introduce a new tier to its capital gains tax regime, increasing the portion of gains on which tax is paid to two-thirds from the current 50% for any capital gains more than CA$250,000 ($182,000).
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April 17, 2024
Judge Delays Trial Over $20M Allegedly Hidden From IRS
A Florida federal judge agreed Wednesday to delay the trial of a Brazilian-American businessman accused of hiding $20 million from the Internal Revenue Service by using Swiss bank accounts, but told the defendant the new deadlines are firm.
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April 17, 2024
Loeb & Loeb Adds 2 Corporate Partners From Morrison Cohen
Loeb & Loeb LLP has announced the latest in a string of corporate hires from Morrison Cohen LLP's ranks, touting two new partners with domestic and international experience with strategic transactions.
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April 17, 2024
Tax Incentives Needed To Boost EU Investments, Adviser Says
European Union countries must give tax incentives to boost long-term savings plans for individuals and institutions in an effort to gather capital for investment in businesses, a top adviser said Wednesday.
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April 17, 2024
EU To Start Review Of Disclosure Laws In May, Official Says
The European Commission plans to launch a review of some parts of its landmark tax disclosure legislation in May, a senior tax official said Wednesday, suggesting the body is open to simplifying the law.
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April 17, 2024
Swedish Bank Tax Not A State Aid Violation, EU Court Affirms
A Swedish banking tax does not run afoul of the European Union's rules on state aid, the EU's lower court said Wednesday, dismissing a bid by the country's banking lobby to annul the European Commission's approval of the measure.
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April 16, 2024
Corp. Transparency Act A Valid Use Of Powers, 11th Circ. Told
The U.S. Department of Treasury told the Eleventh Circuit that a federal district court erred in finding the Corporate Transparency Act unconstitutional, saying the lower court misunderstood the law's scope and relation to efforts to curb financial crime.
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April 16, 2024
Canada Expects Digital Tax To Increase Revenue By CA$5.9B
Canada's proposed digital services tax is estimated to bring in CA$5.9 billion ($4.3 billion) over five years, according to the country's 2024 budget, which was released Tuesday and cited continued international delays in implementing a worldwide profit reallocation agreement.
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April 16, 2024
Veteran's Signature On IRS Doc Not Forged, Tax Court Finds
U.S. Air Force veteran and his wife failed to convince the U.S. Tax Court on Tuesday that their signatures were forged on an agreement to pay federal income taxes while working in Australia for defense contractor Raytheon.
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April 16, 2024
3 Key Takeaways From The IRS' Latest Pricing Pact Snapshot
The IRS finalized a record number of advance pricing agreements in 2023, signaling the agency's increased effectiveness at completing accords at a time when its approach to transfer pricing litigation could fuel corporate taxpayers' urgency for seeking APAs. Here, Law360 breaks down three key takeaways from the agency’s latest APA report.
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April 16, 2024
Orrick Adds Former Hogan Lovells Atty To German Tax Group
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP added a former Hogan Lovells counsel to its German tax group, the firm announced.
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April 16, 2024
McDermott Hires 2 Partners For Global Tax Practice In Paris
McDermott Will & Emery is expanding its global tax practice group with two partners in Paris who have a track record of advising on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and tax controversies before France's tax authority, the firm announced.
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April 16, 2024
Finland's Boost In Financial Crimes Led To $156M In Damage
A record nearly 2,400 financial crimes reported to Finland's authorities in 2023 — with 54% of them debtor crimes and tax and accounting crimes — resulted in €147 million ($156 million) in criminal damage, the Finnish Tax Administration said Tuesday.
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April 16, 2024
Global Economic Growth To Remain Slow, Steady, IMF Says
The global economy has been "surprisingly resilient" in its bounce back from widespread troubles, leading to projections of a slow but steady 3.2% growth continuing through this year and the next, the International Monetary Fund said in its annual report Tuesday.
Expert Analysis
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Inside The OECD Transfer Pricing Documentation Guidance
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recently modified documentation guidelines can assist tax administrations in developing requirements for transfer pricing risk assessments and evaluations, and help multinational entity taxpayers demonstrate satisfaction of the arm's-length principle, says Neil Aragones at Lexis Tax.
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A Close Look At The Decentralized Effort To Tax Digital Assets
Clarity on taxation is one of the biggest hurdles to mass adoption of cryptocurrency, and although digital asset innovation has consistently outpaced worldwide government regulation, recent efforts in the U.S. and elsewhere hint at an emerging standard, says Joshua Smeltzer at Gray Reed.
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Key Takeaways From IRS Reversal On FDII Stance
The Internal Revenue Service's recent memo regarding allocation of deferred compensation expenses for purposes of foreign-derived intangible income is a departure from the agency's previous position and may have implications beyond the context of deferred compensation, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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New Tax Decree Suggests Expansion In Dutch Transfer Pricing
A July 1 decree from Dutch tax authorities updating transfer pricing guidance heralds a major change in how intercompany financial transactions are considered for transfer pricing purposes and forebodes significant audit activity, say Monique van Herksen and Clive Jie-A-Joen at Simmons and Simmons.
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Is NJ's Voluntary Transfer Pricing Initiative Really Voluntary?
The New Jersey Division of Taxation's voluntary transfer pricing audit initiative promises penalty abatement to taxpayers that elect to participate and agree to the division's proposed adjustments, but the effective penalties associated with nonparticipation raise questions about the program's voluntary nature, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Global Tax Chiefs Should Look To US Whistleblower Programs
As the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement develops its international whistleblower program to address tax evasion and money laundering schemes in new areas like cryptocurrency, it should take lessons from highly successful U.S. programs on which features to include and pitfalls to avoid, say Neil Getnick and Nico Gurian at Getnick & Getnick.
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What Microcaptive Reporting Ruling May Mean For The IRS
In CIC v. Internal Revenue Service, a Tennessee federal court’s decision to set aside an IRS requirement to disclose microcaptive insurance arrangements may be a step toward evidentiary standards to show that the potential for abuse in a lawful transaction is sufficient to support heightened disclosure requirements, says Samuel Lauricia at Weston Hurd.
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US Should Leverage Tax Rules To Deter Business With Russia
The U.S. should further restrict the flow of resources available for the Putin regime's war in Ukraine by denying U.S. businesses that operate in Russia or Belarus foreign tax credits and global intangible low-taxed income preferences, and by terminating its tax treaty with Russia, says Reuven Avi-Yonah at University of Michigan Law School.
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Justices Must Apply Law Evenly In Shadow Docket Rulings
In recent shadow docket decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has inconsistently applied the requirement that parties demonstrate irreparable harm to obtain injunctive relief, which is problematic for two separate but related reasons, says David Hopkins at Benesch.
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US Investors Stand To Benefit From Brazil's New Forex Law
Brazil's New Foreign Exchange Law facilitates negotiations and reduces bureaucracy for foreign investments, making it a good time for U.S. investors looking for projects with a positive environmental, social and governance impact to allocate funds to Brazilian energy and infrastructure, say Jorge Kamine and Juliana Pimentel at Willkie.
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A Landmark UK Enforcement Case For Crypto-Assets
HM Revenue and Customs' recent seizure of nonfungible tokens from three people under investigation for value-added tax fraud promises to be the first of many such actions against crypto-assets, so investors should preemptively resolve potential tax matters with U.K. law enforcement agencies to avoid a rude awakening, says Andrew Park at Andersen.
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Simplifying Tax Issues For Nonresident Athletes In Canada
Tax compliance can be particularly challenging for nonresident professional athletes playing in Canada, but as NHL contract negotiations approach a close, it's worth looking at some ways the tax burden can be mitigated, say Marie-France Dompierre and Marc Pietro Allard at Davies Ward.
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Steps For Universities As DOJ Shifts Foreign Influence Policy
Notwithstanding Wednesday's U.S. Department of Justice announcement terminating the initiative targeting Chinese influence and raising the bar for criminal prosecutions, universities should ensure their compliance controls meet new disclosure standards and that they can efficiently respond to inquiries about employees' foreign connections, say attorneys at Covington.