Strategizing Multinational Tax Risks

As the time for US seems to tick ever closer, EY’s Global Tax Alert highlights the tax accounting implications that would take effect on the “enactment date.”

Key items for consideration:

• Tax attributes re: one-time repatriation/taxation of foreign earnings
• Capital expensing impact
• State tax impact, dependent on if they automatically follow federal tax law
• APB 23, how will this be affected?

Although such items are hypothetical at the moment, some items may require additional planning to have the data available for the requisite disclosures.  Thus, the time for planning and consideration is the present.

http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/US_Administration_releases_Joint_Statement_on_Reform_-_Income_Tax_accounting_considerations_related_to_potential_future_US_tax_legislation_and_steps_companies_can_take_now_to_prepare/$FILE/2017G_04560-172Gbl_US%20joint%20statement%20on%20tax%20reform.pdf