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Mergers and Acquisitions - International

Proposed Sec. 367 Regs Say Goodbye to Goodwill Exception

November 23, 2015 By Heather Ripley

Citing aggressive taxpayer positions, recently proposed regulations do away with the foreign goodwill exception to gain or income recognition for outbound transfers under Section 367. The rules also restrict the type of property eligible for the active business exception. Reasons for Change Per the preamble, taxpayers interpret Section 367 and the regulations in one of two ways when claiming favorable treatment of foreign goodwill and going concern value. One interpretation argues that goodwill and going concern value are not IP within the meaning of Section 936(h)(3)(B) and thus not subject [...]Read more

Filed Under: International - Corporate Tax Planning, International - Outbound, International - Transfer Pricing, International Tax Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions - International Tagged With: active business exception, Corporate Tax Planning, foreign corporation, foreign goodwill exception, goodwill, intangible property, IRS, outbound, proposed regulations, Section 367, section 482, temporary regulations, transfer pricing

Final Anti-Inversion Regulations Keep Strict 25 Percent Tests for Substantial Business Activities

July 9, 2015 By Heather Ripley

In June, the IRS and U.S. Treasury released final regulations under the anti-inversion provisions of Section 7874 (T.D. 9720). The final rules, effective for acquisitions completed on or after June 3, 2015, include a few changes from the regulations proposed in 2012. Most notably, the final rules retain the 25 percent bright-line tests for whether an expanded affiliated group (EAG) has “substantial business activities” in a foreign country for the purpose of determining whether the foreign parent of an inverted corporation will be treated as a “surrogate foreign corporation.” The controversial [...]Read more

Filed Under: International - Corporate Tax Planning, International Tax Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions - International Tagged With: Corporate Inversions, Corporate Tax Planning, final regulations, inversions, Section 7874

Section 304 Games

October 23, 2013 By Jasper L. (Jack) Cummings, Jr. and Edward Tanenbaum

Since the repeal of the collapsible corporation rules, section 304 has been the most confusing corporate tax section in the domestic context. Its function is to convert a stock sale into a redemption for purposes of applying section 302 to determine whether the sale proceeds will be taxed as a dividend, or at least will be taxed under section 301 rather than section 1001. But to accomplish this goal, the section has employed numerous deemings and hypothetical transactions. Every 10-15 years, either Congress or Treasury decides that these fictions require another tweak, and somehow they never quite [...]Read more

Filed Under: Federal - Corporate Tax Planning, International - Corporate Tax Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions - Domestic, Mergers and Acquisitions - International

Manchester United Ruling?

October 22, 2012 By Jasper L. (Jack) Cummings, Jr. and Edward Tanenbaum

LTR 201242007 is a section 351 ruling with a public offering: not a busted 351, but a good 351. It likely involves the IPO of the new Manchester United football team holding company that was taken public by the Glazer interests, which acquired the UK football team in recent years. The main tax point of significance is that the IRS may have approved a 10:1 disparity in vote between voting classes, for purposes of respecting the low vote stock as voting stock. If so, for section 351 purposes, all of the stock was voting stock and section 351 applied to the Glazer’s contribution of the highly [...]Read more

Filed Under: Mergers and Acquisitions - International Tagged With: Section 351

Reverse Acquisitions and Tax Insurance

July 25, 2012 By Jasper L. (Jack) Cummings, Jr. and Edward Tanenbaum

LTR 201228002 involves a plain vanilla group structure change in a consolidated group owned by a foreign parent. The ruling is so obvious that one wonders why the taxpayer sought it. The explanation likely lies in the substantial tax savings that can be facilitated by the reverse acquisition. It is likely that someone at the taxpayers’ office said “this is too good to be true, no matter how clear my tax director says the results are, I don’t mind paying to get an IRS seal of approval on the transaction, no matter how many caveats it carries.” The following example, with [...]Read more

Filed Under: Controversies - Federal, Corporate - Federal, Mergers and Acquisitions - International

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