On March 6, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released PLR 202010002, which provided the appropriate normalization treatment of infrastructure surcharges in supplemental rate proceedings as well as the proper...more
On October 9, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued guidance addressing select issues involving the tax treatment of virtual currency transactions and reminding taxpayers of their reporting obligations. The...more
Long-awaited proposed regulations recently released by the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) address the classification of certain transactions involving digital content and the...more
On May 7, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2019-33 (Notice) announcing its intention to issue guidance under section 168 of the Internal Revenue Code to clarify the normalization requirements for...more
On April 16, 2019, the Large Business and International (LB&I) Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced three new compliance campaigns. The campaigns focus on:
..Transfer pricing for “captive” services...more
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On November 26, 2018, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued much-anticipated proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) under section 163(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of...more
On June 19, 2018, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations (REG-131186-17) (2018 Proposed Regulations) concerning the manner in which partnership liabilities are allocated among the...more
On November 3, 2017, the Large Business & International Division (LB&I of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a list of 11 new campaigns, adding to the 13 campaigns that it initially launched in January. Eversheds...more
The Internal Revenue Service (Service) issued PLR 201739003 on September 29, 2017, in which it granted an extension to a taxpayer that failed to timely file for the safe-harbor election provided in Rev. Proc. 2011-29, 2011-1...more
On October 2, 2017, the Treasury Department (Treasury) released a report identifying certain significant regulations for full withdrawal, partial revocation or substantial revision and noting that over 200 additional...more
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and Senate Finance...more
On September 7, 2017, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2017-47, which provides a safe harbor for regulated public utilities for inadvertent or unintentional uses of a practice or procedure that is inconsistent with the...more
On July 13, 2017, the Tax Court, in Grecian Magnesite, Industrial & Shipping Co., SA v. Commissioner, 149 T.C. 3 (2017), rejected Internal Revenue Service (IRS) arguments that, in order to establish good faith reliance, the...more
Grecian Magnesite Mining, a Greek corporation (GMM), owned an interest in Premier Chemicals LLC, a Delaware limited liability company classified as a partnership for US income tax purposes (Premier). Premier conducted a trade...more
In June 2005, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a package of proposed regulations providing that certain corporate liquidations, formations and reorganizations would not qualify for nonrecognition treatment if the...more
On July 7, 2017, Treasury identified eight significant regulations, including regulations under sections 385 (treatment of certain debt as equity), 752 (partnership liabilities), 367 (outbound transfers of property) and 987...more
On April 19, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Rev. Proc. 2017-30, 2017-17 I.R.B. 1, which provides an updated list of automatic changes in methods of accounting. As was the case with its predecessor, Rev....more
Although the cost of obtaining regulatory approval for a corporate transaction is identified as facilitative, a recent Chief Counsel Advice (CCA 2017-13-010, March 31, 2017) (the CCA) issued by the Internal Revenue Service...more
In the last few weeks, the Internal Revenue Service (the Service) issued several private letter rulings addressing a variety of tax accounting issues. From bonus depreciation elections to the correct unit of property for...more
Amid the Panama Papers leak and international concern that foreign persons were concealing assets through U.S. entities that are disregarded for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the...more
As reported in a prior Sutherland Legal Alert, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the 2015 Budget Act) makes significant changes to the procedural rules governing federal income tax audits and judicial proceedings that apply...more
Recently proposed Treasury regulations under IRC § 385 (the Proposed Regulations) would potentially treat related-party debt, in whole or in part, as equity for U.S. tax purposes. The Proposed Regulations generally apply to...more
On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed the Budget Act of 2015 (the “2015 Budget Act”), which makes significant amendments to the procedural rules governing federal income tax audits and judicial proceedings that apply to...more
The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (Service) have issued proposed tax regulations (Proposed Regulations) that provide guidance on, and significantly scale back, the types of activities...more
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Commerce Department is conducting its quinquennial (every five years) survey of investment in foreign entities. The BE-10 Benchmark Survey (BE-10 Survey) is the most...more