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Diving into IRS’s Annual Report on Advance Pricing Agreements: Can APMA Overcome Its Sisyphean Task?

April 13, 2022 By Alston & Bird Federal & International Tax Group

Despite adding personnel and making a concerted effort to speed up the advance pricing agreement process, the Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement Program (APMA) faces challenges with the mounting demand. Our International Tax Group breaks down the hurdles for APMA and identifies important trends companies negotiating APAs should keep in mind. APMA staff increased 21% last year, but median completion time for an APA increased to 35 months (up from 33 months in 2020) APMA would need more than three years to work through its existing inventory of bilateral APAs at its current processing rate [...]Read more

Filed Under: International - Transfer Pricing, International Tax Advisory Tagged With: Advance Pricing Agreements, Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement Program, APA, APMA, Bilateral APA, covid-19, international, IRS, Tax, transfer pricing, Unilateral APA

What’s in a Name? Final FTC Regulations Rebrand the Jurisdictional Nexus Requirement

January 18, 2022 By Edward Tanenbaum and Stefanie Kavanagh

Our International Tax Group delves into the attribution requirement (née jurisdictional nexus requirement) of the final foreign tax credit regulations and finds that taxpayers will still face uncertainties in the application of the foreign tax credit. The IRS seeks to modernize regulations to mitigate double taxation of foreign-source income Many of the final regulations follow the proposed regulations, but some were modified based on comments from taxpayers Gray areas remain, including how reasonably similar a foreign rule must be Read the full advisory here. [...]Read more

Filed Under: International Tax Advisory Tagged With: attribution requirement, FTC, international tax, jurisdictional nexus requirement, OECD, Pillar One, regulations, Tax

Tax Reform: Invitation to the Weekly Client Update from Alston & Bird

January 8, 2018 By Alston & Bird Tax Team

With tax reform officially upon us, our subject matter experts will take a deeper dive into areas that are critical to your business, such as corporate taxes, international issues, executive compensation and employee benefits, and partnerships.   The 2018 call-in series will kick off on Tuesday, January 9. All seminars will start at 11am ET and last approximately 30 minutes. Click here to RSVP and receive the dial-in information.   [...]Read more

Filed Under: Corporate - Federal, Corporate - State, Employee Benefits, Federal - Corporate Tax Planning, Federal Tax, Partnerships, Tax Policy, Tax Reform Tagged With: corporate, employee benefits, executive compensation, health & welfare, international tax, partnerships, section 965, Tax, tax reform

The Cloudy Status of a “Profits Interest” Holder as an LLC Member

March 24, 2015 By Andy Immerman

Cumulus Radio Corp. v. Olson, U.S. Dist. Ct., C.D. Ill., March 10, 2015 The existence of federal jurisdiction in this case turned on whether an individual who held an unvested profits interest in a limited liability company (“LLC”), and whom the LLC considered a partner for tax purposes, was a “member” of the LLC under Delaware law.  The case illustrates some of the confusion commonly surrounding the nature of LLCs, LLC membership, and “profits interests.” Defendant Alpha at first admitted being a Delaware “corporation,” which, if true, would have given the court diversity jurisdiction.  [...]Read more

Filed Under: Federal Tax Tagged With: federal tax, Tax

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