Kat Gregor, tax partner and co-founder of the firm’s tax controversy group, discusses the OECD’s digital tax proposal as well as actions being taken by several countries to pass digital services taxes of their own.
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On August 6, 2020, the IRS issued proposed regulations (REG-132434-17) limiting the role of contractors hired to assist the IRS in audits, including during summons interviews. The proposed regulations implement Section 7602(f), enacted by the Taxpayer First Act (P.L. 116-25), which became effective on July 1, 2019. They withdraw and replace proposed regulations
After the Supreme Court declined to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, 926 F.3d 1061 (9th Cir. 2019) (cert denied — S. Ct. — (June 22, 2020)), the IRS has confirmed that it is examining taxpayers that did not include stock-based compensation costs as intangible development costs under Treasury
The IRS has announced that it will begin enforcing Section 965’s repatriation tax in October 2020. Section 965 and its regulations require United States shareholders to pay a one-time transition tax on untaxed foreign earnings of certain foreign corporations as if these earnings had been repatriated to the United States. Cash holdings are taxed at
In this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series, Disputing Tax, Pascal Mayer, a senior attorney in the employment, executive compensation & employee benefits group, is joined by Kat Gregor and Loretta Richard, partners in the tax, employment & benefits practice and co-founders of the tax controversy group, to discuss the payroll tax provisions
This article was originally published on Law360 on June 9, 2020, and includes commentary from tax partner and tax controversy group co-founder, Kat Gregor, on the implications of the European Union’s new tax transparency rules, including certain conditions that could trigger disclosure obligations in cross-border situations.
The European Union’s new tax transparency rules involve certain conditions that could trigger disclosure obligations for some surprising cross-border situations, including preexisting transfer pricing arrangements, practitioners said during a webinar on Tuesday.
Common arrangements could unexpectedly get flagged for potential tax avoidance under the latest amendment (2019 Law360 56-102) to the EU’s Directive on Administrative Cooperation, or DAC6, according to Kat Saunders Gregor, a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP. Specifically, these arrangements could get pulled in under conditions that don’t look at whether the “main benefit” of an arrangement is to gain a tax advantage, she said during a webinar hosted by the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation.
Instead of using the main benefit test, these conditions — referred to as hallmarks in the legislation — require reporting if the situation is simply flagged as a potential for tax evasion or abuse, without regard to whether it’s tax motivated, according to Gregor. For example, multinational corporate structures that use a single cash management function where there are extensive transfer pricing arrangements could expect to trigger DAC6’s disclosure rules, she said.
Under these broad rules, preexisting arrangements potentially are “going to create a reporting obligation on a going forward basis, even if these were transfer pricing agreements that have been in place for a long time,” Gregor said.
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Kat Gregor, tax partner and co-founder of the tax controversy group, was recently appointed to Law360’s 2020 Tax Editorial Advisory Board. The purpose of the board, according to the announcement, is “to provide feedback on Law360’s coverage and expert insight on how best to shape future coverage.”
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On May 12, 2020, the IRS released proposed regulations (REG-104591) affecting the deductibility of payments made to governments in settlement of alleged violations of law. The proposed regulations interpret Sections 162(f) and 6050X of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code), as amended and introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), respectively.
R&G attorneys outline some practical considerations for taxpayers and their advisers in light of federal and state taxing authorities’ enforcement-related responses to COVID-19 in an article published in Bloomberg Tax.
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The IRS launched a compliance campaign targeting issues arising out of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) on May 1, 2020. The Large Business & International Division (“LB&I”) has released a number of issue-based compliance campaigns in recent years, including one targeting the so-called repatriation tax enacted under the TCJA in Internal Revenue