International

  • May 20, 2024

    IRS Guidance Plan Should Cover Corp. AMT, AICPA Says

    The Internal Revenue Service should provide guidance on the definitions and applications of the 15% corporate alternative minimum tax, among other topics, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants said in comments published by the agency Monday.

  • May 20, 2024

    Turkey Will Introduce 15% Global Minimum Tax, Minister Says

    The Turkish government will introduce the 15% global minimum corporate tax and will not provide any incentives that would allow companies to pay a lower rate, the country's finance minister told its public broadcaster Monday.

  • May 20, 2024

    Isle Of Man Commits To Portion Of Global Minimum Tax

    The Isle of Man plans to introduce legislation implementing the qualified domestic minimum top-up tax portion of the OECD's Pillar Two directive starting in 2025 but is less committed to adopting the income inclusion rule, the island's Treasury said Monday.

  • May 20, 2024

    HMRC Lays Out Registration Rules For Pillar 2

    Companies covered by the U.K.'s implementation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Pillar Two global minimum tax directive must register with HM Revenue & Customs within six months of the accounting period that makes them eligible, the agency said Monday.

  • May 20, 2024

    US, Argentina To Carry Out 1st FATCA Info Exchange

    The Internal Revenue Service approved cybersecurity measures by Argentina in a step that clears the way for the first automatic information exchange under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act between the two countries in September, Argentina's revenue service said Monday.

  • May 17, 2024

    Med Device Co. Allowed $160M In Deductions, Tax Court Told

    A tax code provision in place before the 2017 federal tax overhaul changed it allows a medical device manufacturer to claim more than $160 million in deductions for dividends despite the government's attempt to apply the law retroactively, company counsel told the U.S. Tax Court on Friday.

  • May 17, 2024

    Michigan Doctor Seeks Release From Contempt In FBAR Fight

    A Michigan doctor incarcerated for civil contempt in a case in which he was ordered to repay more than $1 million in penalties for failure to report foreign accounts should be freed because he can no longer satisfy the terms of his release, he told a Michigan federal court.

  • May 17, 2024

    Koch-Tied Group Says Transparency Law Offends Federalism

    The Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional because it does not regulate interstate commerce yet mandates that state-registered entities disclose personal information, a conservative group affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers told the Eleventh Circuit on Friday.

  • May 17, 2024

    Credit Suisse Can't Reverse $21.3M Biz Loss Denial

    Credit Suisse cannot carry forward $21.3 million in business losses from 2015-2017 to its 2018 Michigan tax return, a state appeals court said, letting stand a ruling that the bank miscalculated its business income from those years on its returns.

  • May 17, 2024

    New Domestic Content Guidance May Boost Energy Credits

    The U.S. Treasury Department's new guidance on bonus tax credits for clean energy projects that source domestic-made materials and components aims to simplify the process for determining eligibility and spur more development to get those extra incentives.

  • May 17, 2024

    Italian Financial Police Uncover €1B Tax Credit Scam

    The Italian Financial Police placed more than 300 people under investigation after uncovering a scheme to collect more than €1 billion ($1.09 billion) in tax credits designed to promote construction and energy matters, authorities said.

  • May 17, 2024

    Transfer Pricing Deal Needed For Pillar 1, OECD Official Says

    It's crucial for countries to agree on transfer pricing policies under an international profit reallocation agreement known as Pillar One as they work toward their end-of-June deadline to sign a related multilateral treaty, an OECD official said Friday.

  • May 17, 2024

    New Dutch Gov't Outlines Range Of Tax Measures

    The incoming Dutch government has outlined numerous tax measures affecting companies and individuals in its preliminary coalition agreement, a government document showed.

  • May 17, 2024

    UK, Peru Agree To Double-Tax Treaty

    The U.K. and Peru reached a deal on a treaty to prevent double taxation after several years of discussion, the countries said Friday.

  • May 17, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Wachtell Lipton, Freshfields

    In this week's Taxation with Representation, Nippon Life acquires Corebridge Financial, Crescent Energy buys SilverBow Resources and Uber purchases Foodpanda.

  • May 16, 2024

    Pillar 1 Faces Hard June Deadline, Ex-Treasury Official Says

    An international agreement to reallocate certain corporate profits, known as Pillar One, will likely stall if countries miss their deadline to sign a multilateral treaty by the end of June, a former U.S. Treasury official said Thursday.

  • May 16, 2024

    Australian Lawmakers OK Tougher Corporate Promoter Rules

    Australian lawmakers agreed Thursday to raise maximum penalties on corporations that promote tax avoidance schemes and to introduce a cap on deductions under its petroleum resource rent tax despite concerns from some members, according to documents published by Parliament.

  • May 16, 2024

    P&G Exec Says FDII Uncertainty May Sway Cos.' IP Decisions

    The 2017 tax overhaul's measure for foreign-derived intangible income, a regime that gives tax breaks for domestically held intellectual property, faces uncertainty that could be one factor in keeping some companies from repatriating IP, a tax executive for Procter & Gamble said Thursday.

  • May 16, 2024

    Eaton Must Give Up Personnel Docs In Transfer Pricing Probe

    Eaton must comply with an Internal Revenue Service summons for the personnel records of its foreign employees in the government's transfer pricing investigation of the multinational power management company, an Ohio federal judge ruled Thursday.

  • May 16, 2024

    African Tax Admins Promote Use Of Voluntary Disclosures

    Voluntary disclosure programs have been very effective when countries launch them in anticipation of complying with an international standard on automatic exchanges of financial account information, the African Tax Administration Forum said Thursday in guidance on the programs.

  • May 16, 2024

    Kenya Considering Global Minimum Tax, DST Replacement

    Kenya is considering legislation that would implement the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's corporate global minimum tax as well as repeal and replace the country's digital services tax.

  • May 16, 2024

    Germany's 2024 Tax Revenue Estimate Drops By €14B

    Germany's 2024 tax revenue estimate decreased by roughly €14 billion ($15.2 billion) to €950.3 billion from the estimate made last fall, which its finance ministry said Thursday was due to slower-than-expected economic recovery.

  • May 16, 2024

    Suspected Ringleader Of €2M Cosmetics VAT Fraud Arrested

    The suspected ringleader of a value-added tax fraud scheme at a cosmetics company that caused more than €2 million ($2.2 million) in estimated losses has been arrested by Italian police, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.

  • May 16, 2024

    EU Tax On Excess Corp Profits Could Yield €107B, Study Says

    A European Union tax on excessive corporate profits could yield about €107 billion ($116 billion) to partly finance the common EU budget or other urgent investments, leftists in the European Parliament said Thursday.

  • May 16, 2024

    Treasury Provides Extra Relief For Bonus Energy Tax Credits

    The U.S. Treasury Department provided additional safe harbors Thursday that clean energy project developers can use to qualify for bonus tax credits for domestically sourcing their steel and aluminum parts in response to the Biden administration's new trade restrictions on solar products from China.

Expert Analysis

  • Private Equity Owners Can Remedy Law Firms' Agency Issues

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    Nonlawyer, private-equity ownership of law firms can benefit shareholders and others vulnerable to governance issues such as disparate interests, and can in turn help resolve agency problems, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.

  • How Taxpayers Can Prep As Justices Weigh Repatriation Tax

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    The U.S. Supreme Court might strike down the 2017 federal tax overhaul's corporate repatriation tax in Moore v. U.S., so taxpayers should file protective tax refund claims before the case is decided and repatriate previously taxed earnings that could become entangled in dubious potential Section 965 refunds, say Jenny Austin and Gary Wilcox at Mayer Brown.

  • OFAC Designation Prosecutions Are Constitutionally Suspect

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    Criminal prosecutions based on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanctions-related listing decisions — made with nearly unfettered discretion through an opaque process — present several constitutional issues, so it is imperative that courts recognize additional rights of review, say Solomon Shinerock and Annika Conrad at Lewis Baach.

  • How The OECD Global Tax Proposal Could Affect M&A

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    Following agreement on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Pillar Two proposal to introduce a global minimum tax, domestic implementation is expected to have a significant impact on international M&A transactions, with financial modeling, deal structuring, risk allocation and joint venture arrangements likely to be affected, say lawyers at Freshfields.

  • UK Shares-Tax Proposals Offer Long-Awaited Modernization

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    The U.K. government's recent consultation on the introduction of a new tax on transactions in securities raises detailed legal and practical issues, but the prospect of a single digital stamp tax offering both streamlined legislation and administration will be welcomed, say Zoë Arnautov and Mark Sheiham at Simmons & Simmons.

  • IRS Foreign Tax Credit Pause Is Welcome Course Correction

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    A recent IRS notice temporarily suspending application of 2022 foreign tax credit regulations provides wanted relief for the many U.S. multinational companies and other taxpayers that otherwise face the risk of significant double taxation in their international operations, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • IRS Criminal Probe Spells Uncertainty For Malta Pension Plans

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    The IRS’ recent scrutiny of Malta pension plan arrangements — and its unusual issuance of criminal administrative summonses — confirms that it views many of these plans as illegal tax evasion schemes, and the road ahead will not be smooth and steady for anyone involved, say attorneys at Kostelanetz.

  • IRS Announcement Will Aid Cos. In Buyback Tax Planning

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    Recent IRS transitional guidance regarding current requirements for reporting and payment of the stock repurchase excise tax will help corporate taxpayers make decisions about records retention and establishing reserves for future tax payments, say Xenia Garofalo and Kyle Colonna at Eversheds Sutherland.

  • Flawed Analysis Supports Common Law Tax Deficiency Ruling

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    The Colorado federal district court’s recent decision in Liberty Global, holding that the U.S. Department of Justice may assert a common law tax claim without the notice of tax deficiency required by the Internal Revenue Code, relies on a contorted reading of the statute and irrelevant case law, say Loren Opper and Christie Galinski at Miller Canfield.

  • Review Of Repatriation Tax Sets Justices On Slippery Slope

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to review the constitutionality of the repatriation tax in Moore v. U.S. has implications for many tax rules involving unrealized amounts and could leave the court on the brink of invalidating large swaths of the Internal Revenue Code, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

  • What To Make Of IRS' New Advance Pricing Guidance

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    Recent guidance on the IRS' goals for its advance pricing agreement system provides helpful insight into review and decision-making procedures for advance pricing agreement requests, but it also raises questions about the IRS' objectives, say Richard Slowinski and Stefanie Kavanagh at Alston & Bird.

  • Reserved Investor Fund Would Plug Gap In UK Finance Market

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    The reserved investor fund recently proposed by HM Treasury has the potential to be a welcome tax-efficient addition to the U.K.’s canon of products for real estate investments, with attractive features for companies and, in particular, large asset managers, say lawyers at Herbert Smith.

  • The Reciprocal Tax Bill Is A Warning Shot At Pillar 2

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    A bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives to reciprocally tax countries deemed to have imposed discriminatory taxes on U.S. citizens and businesses takes aim at countries implementing the global minimum tax treaty known as Pillar Two, with which the U.S. has not complied, says Alan Cole at the Tax Foundation.

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