Bloomberg Tax
Oct. 22, 2021, 8:45 AM

Breaking Down Facebook’s $9 Billion Tax Fight With IRS (Podcast)

Jeffery Leon
Jeffery Leon
Reporter
Aysha Bagchi
Aysha Bagchi
Reporter

Facebook’s long-running tax dispute with the IRS finally resumed this month after a lengthy delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,

The social media giant is fighting IRS allegations that the company undervalued intangible assets that were allocated to its Irish subsidiary. It is one of a string of high-profile cases the IRS is fighting against multinationals over transfer pricing—the value of assets transferred among related corporate entities.

The U.S. Tax Court recently heard five days of in-person testimony in Washington and the case is scheduled to shift back to San Francisco early next year. Although the trial focuses only on ...

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