A year into the Trump administration’s global tariff campaign, many companies are still struggling to coordinate their trade functions with their tax and transfer pricing teams, risking messy audits in the years to come.
The IRS is increasing informal talks with other tax authorities to speed up progress on bilateral advance pricing agreements, and is urging taxpayers to communicate more actively to speed tax dispute negotiations, an agency official said Monday.
Multinational companies should check their governance of related-party contracts, given Australia’s controversial stance on taxing intellectual property royalties, tax professionals say.
Healthcare company Accendra Health paid the IRS $19 million due to a transfer pricing dispute, the company told investors on an earnings call Monday.
In the Amex case, France’s Supreme Court has reaffirmed the central role of the contract when identifying the recipient of services for VAT purposes in complex intragroup structures, Grant Thornton practitioners explain.
Australia expects that a carve-out from a global minimum tax agreed to by over 140 countries at the OECD in January will decrease its tax receipts by A$240 million ($173 million) over five years.
Companies can formally express interest in securing advance tax certainty for their billion-dollar infrastructure projects from June 1, the UK tax authority said Tuesday.
Congress made the adoption tax credit partially refundable for 2026—but an IRS crackdown on fraud could turn that pro-family policy into another refund-delay mechanism. To fix the problem, the agency should publish specific related guidance to make claiming the credit faster and easier, says Andrew Leahey.
The Trump administration asked the US trade court to pause a ruling that declared the president’s latest 10% global tariffs unlawful while the government appeals, meaning importers would keep paying the levies while the legal fight continues.
The IRS is increasing informal talks with other tax authorities to speed up progress on bilateral advance pricing agreements, and is urging taxpayers to communicate more actively to speed tax dispute negotiations, an agency official said Monday.
Multinational companies should check their governance of related-party contracts, given Australia’s controversial stance on taxing intellectual property royalties, tax professionals say.
Healthcare company Accendra Health paid the IRS $19 million due to a transfer pricing dispute, the company told investors on an earnings call Monday.
This week, experts examined an Italian transfer pricing case, relocation for high-net-worth individuals and families, and more.
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French tax authorities used the wrong comparables to challenge energy multinational Engie’s pricing of LNG transactions for foreign subsidiaries, France’s top administrative court ruled.
The Uruguayan General Directorate of Taxation May 8 posted online Consultation No. 6767, clarifying the application of the 2009 DTA with Spain to payments for services and trademark royalties. The ...
The Tanzanian Ministry of Finance and Planning May 4 announced the same date signing of a DTA with Turkey. [Tanzania, Ministry of Finance, 05/04/26]
The Liechtenstein Fiscal Authority May 4 announced the same date signing of a DTA with Belgium. The DTA includes measures to: 1) incorporate the international standards and requirements of the ...
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