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Risky Business – Allocating Losses When Your Supply Chain Is Disrupted

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Should a subsidiary incur losses due to risks it assumed? Can a parent take on losses? Our International Tax Group investigates the nuances of regulations from U.S. and international agencies and offers actions multinational enterprises can take now to prepare for the tax implications of COVID-19-related disruptions. Who bears and controls the risk? Useful guidance from the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations Actions to take now and in the future Alston & Bird has formed a multidisciplinary task force to advise clients on the business [...]Read more

Treasury’s Section 482 Regulation Losses

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Do what Treasury said, not what it says it meant. Earlier this month, our Federal Tax Group explains why the circuit court affirmed one Tax Court decision and reversed another in the name of consistency – and why it means regulation preambles are more important than ever. Affirming in Amazon, reversing in Altera Holding the IRS to literal terms of the regulation Similarity to the Supreme Court ruling on the census citizenship question Read the full advisory here. [...]Read more

Altera Redux – The Ninth Circuit Once Again Holds in Favor of the IRS

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Last week, our International Tax Group examines the Ninth Circuit repeating itself in reversing a unanimous Tax Court holding on the validity of the Treasury's regulations under Section 482. We examine the reconstituted  panel's significant decisions, which in many ways follow the first panel's conclusions. Altera v. Commissioner, Parts 1, 2, and now, 3 What is the meaning of “commensurate with income”? What does this case say about previous standards under Chevron? Read the full advisory here. [...]Read more

International Tax Advisory: Through the Looking Glass: Reporting by Foreign-Owned Disregarded Entities

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In the wake of the Panama Papers leak, the IRS and Treasury have announced proposed regulations to require significant reporting by foreign-owned domestic disregarded entities. Our International Tax Group considers the implications of this anticipated regulatory burden.