This past Friday, a federal district court set aside the temporary regulations that frustrated certain inversion transactions, including the proposed Pfizer/Allergan merger, which was aba...
Just before a major development in the Panama Papers document leak, the United States Treasury Department announced a series of initiatives signaling an increased regulatory focus on offs...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Issues Guidance on New Iran Disclosure Requirements
SEC Extends No-Action Relief to Broker-Dealers Who Rely on Registered Investment Advisers to Perform...
On July 22, the Tax Court published its decision in the case of Anschutz Company v. Commissioner, involving a taxpayer that (indirectly) engaged in various prepaid variable forward contra...
Today, the IRS released guidance that provides significant relief to persons considering the extent to which they need to submit a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (an “FBA...
The Treasury Department has released proposed regulations that would provide some relief to filers attempting to determine their obligations under the rules regarding the Report of Foreig...
President Barack Obama unveiled plans to propose a financial crisis responsibility tax that would be levied on the largest financial institutions in terms of assets for at least the next ...
Taxpayers have been struggling to comply with their reporting obligations for foreign financial accounts because of informal statements by IRS officials in June suggesting that the obliga...
Informal comments by representatives of the IRS suggested for the first time on June 12, 2009 that investments in certain types of foreign hedge funds may constitute foreign financial acc...
