Reprinted From The Winter 2018 Issue Of ALI-CLE’s The Practical Tax LawyerWinter 2018 Edition On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) of 2017, P.L. 115-97, which introduced a set of tax cuts and other reforms that will affect substantially all U.S. taxpayers, both corporate and individual. The key feature of the new legislation was the reduction by 40 percent of the maximum federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent,…
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On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, P.L. 115-97, which introduced a wholesale set of tax cuts and other reforms that affect substantially all U.S. taxpayers, both corporate and individual. One of the highlights of the new law is the repatriation of foreign-sourced accumulated earnings and profits with respect to controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) as defined.[1] Newly enacted section 965 imposes a transition tax on the accumulated (a…
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Adapted from an article to be published in the January, 2018 issue of the CPA Journal which is the official journal of the NY State Society of CPAs By the time this article is published, we will know whether the new tax law was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Trump. While the conference committee resolved the differences between the bills, and there indeed were many differences, at this point the conference agreement has selected the provisions going forward for the final vo…
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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…
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