Strategizing Multinational Tax Risks

The first set of final Regulations were recently issued; some changes include:

• Stock basis flexibility
• Right to have some changes in methods of accounting as “regarded”
• Clarification of ordering rules
• Elect to not disregard payments between SFC’s between measurement dates
• Including only actual Sec 956 inclusions for the “without” calculation

As the Regulations were issued in January, this set of Reg’s, as well as others to be issued by June 22, 2019, will be treated as having retroactive effect to the enactment date of December 22, 2017.

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