Perrigo Company and Subsidiaries (“Perrigo”) on August 15, 2017, filed a tax refund suit against the United States in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, No. 1:17-cv-00737. [1] Perrigo alleged it overpaid Federal income taxes, penalties and interest, for its 52-53 week tax years ending in the last week in June for the years 2009 through 2012 by over $163 million. Read More

As recently set forth in a post to K&F, LLP Business and International Tax Developments, in Executive Order 13789, President Trump directed the Treasury Department to undertake a detailed review of certain tax regulations projects that were either in proposed or final form on or after January 1, 2016 that imposed financial burdens on U.S. taxpayers, overly complicate the Federal tax laws, or exceed the statutory authority of the IRS in issuing regulations and report back to the President on… Read More

Tax advisors of estates are generally aware that the executor or personal representative of the estate is personally liable for the payment of federal estate taxes not only with respect to the probate estate, but also for estate taxes attributable to other assets includible in the taxable estate [Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 2202; Treasury Regulations section 20.2002-1]. This duty applies not only to the entire estate, but also to any outstanding unpaid gift taxes, regardless of whether t… Read More

Overview of need for reform of income taxation of US corporations with respect to foreign subsidiaries As promised from various talks and presentations leading up to the introduction of H.R. 1, 115TH Cong., 1st Sess., the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as well as the recent Republican Unified Framework for Tax Reform, released September 27, 2017, the GOP Bill introduces major reforms to the international taxation of U.S. businesses, particularly U.S. corporations owning 10% or more of the stock of a for… Read More

Shortly after President Trump took the oath of office as President, on April 21, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13789, a directive intended to reduce tax regulatory burdens on the IRS and Treasury.[1] The order instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to review all “significant tax regulations” issued on or after January 1, 2016 by the predecessor administration, and submit two reports, followed promptly by taking concrete action to alleviate the burdens of regulations that mee… Read More

Focusing On The Controversial New Partnership Representative Rule This is the second part of a series of posts pertaining to drafting and revising partnership, limited liability and limited liability partnership (“partnership”) agreements into account the new consolidated audit rules. The first part of the series appeared on this website, “Business and International Tax Developments” on Friday, June 14, 2014. Read More

Department of Justice Press Release of July 19, 2017. In its press release of July 19, the Department of Justice announced that a citizen and resident of Switzerland pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with her work as the head of a team of bankers for Credit Suisse AG, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ms. Meier… Read More

In a recent article written by lawyers in the Aird & Berlis LLP law firm in Toronto, which was just published in Tax Notes International, U.S. international tax practitioners and business lawyers can obtain valuable insights on drafting issues and problems with Canadian controlled private corporation (CCPC) shareholder agreements. The idea is to preserve favorable tax attributes of a Canadian private corporation by ensuring that de jure and de facto control of the CCPC is maintained by Canad… Read More