Considerations for multinationals with US and Maltese operations
This discussion explores certain issues that multinationals should consider when deciding whether to use Malta as part of their worldwide operations.
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This discussion explores certain issues that multinationals should consider when deciding whether to use Malta as part of their worldwide operations.
A corporate recapitalization can freeze the value of the owner’s stock, potentially reducing the owner’s estate tax liability by removing future appreciation in the value of stock from the owner’s estate.
The Sec. 196 deduction for unused business credits is available both where the credit carryforward period expires and when a taxpayer dies or ceases to exist.
The difference in valuation standards between financial reporting and transfer pricing leads to the use of different valuation methods for each. This may significantly affect the valuation of the asset for transfer-pricing purposes.
This discussion explores key considerations to keep in mind for claiming customs duty refunds on transfer-pricing adjustments.
The IRS has attempted to review and audit R&D credit claims through various techniques and strategies over the years, and the FAA harks back to recordation requirements of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
This item addresses and summarizes the key provisions of the Infrastructure Act as it pertains to the reinstated Superfund tax, along with some taxpayer considerations related to the tax.
A nondividend payment by a corporation out of its surplus earnings may be viewed by the IRS as evidence of a purpose to avoid shareholder-level income tax.
Fiscal 2023 tax provisions also would increase IRS funding, encourage domestic business investments, and repeal many fossil fuel tax preferences.
Taxpayers should strongly consider these letter rulings when trying to determine whether they want to structure a borrowing with a regarded entity as the legal borrower or whether they prefer to have a DRE be the legal borrower of the debt.
A debt cancellation or forgiveness by a corporation’s shareholder is a common transaction, but some critical tax consequences are uncertain including the determination of any income from the cancellation of debtunder certain circumstances.
This item discusses the Sec. 41 research credit and how statistical sampling can be used to efficiently satisfy the fourpart test that governs whether research activities qualify for the credit.
A Chief Counsel memorandum advises that taxpayers must provide additional information to make a valid Sec. 41 research credit refund claim on an amended tax return.
In determining whether a corporation was engaged in brokerage services, the IRS ignored definitions of the term in other areas of the tax law and instead resorted solely to the plain meaning of the term as found in a dictionary.
Prior guidance on Tax Court jurisdiction over IRS determinations of employee vs. independent contractor status is modified and superseded.
Starting Jan. 10, a Sec. 41 credit claimed on an amended return must include specific information.
A law change and some regulations take effect while an array of provisions expire.
This article discusses the disclosure and reporting of VCOs and whether VCOs should be treated as deductible ordinary and necessary business expenses, capitalizable expenses, deductible charitable contributions, or nondeductible expenses.
The IRS determined that a failure to deposit any portion of the federal employment taxes deferred by the CARES Act by the applicable installment due date will result in a penalty.
The at-risk rules limit the losses allowed to closely held C corporations on certain investments, testing each separate activity to determine if the corporation is at risk for that activity.
DEDUCTIONS
Business meal deductions after the TCJA
This article discusses the history of the deduction of business meal expenses and the new rules under the TCJA and the regulations and provides a framework for documenting and substantiating the deduction.
TAX RELIEF
Quirks spurred by COVID-19 tax relief
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