It’s Complicated

Coming to grips with the U.S. tax treatment of the foreign-sourced income of a closely held domestic business, and of commercial transactions involving such a business and its related foreign entities, may be intimidating not only for the owners of the business, but also for their advisers.

Indeed, the Code and Regulations include

Most transactions have their share of hiccups. Some cases are more serious than others.

Generally speaking, they originate with the seller. For example, due diligence turns up some disturbing information about the target company’s legal status, the target’s financials aren’t as rosy as the buyer was led to believe, the target’s owners keep trying to renegotiate the deal, or a rift develops among the target’s owners – these and other surprises are not unusual. Some result in a change in purchase price or a change in payment terms (including escrows and other holdbacks), while others just kill the deal.

Continue Reading PE Fund, Foreign Investor, No Blocker, & Partnership Rollover – Hiccup?

We’ve all heard about the profits that publicly-held U.S. corporations have generated overseas, and how those profits have, until now, escaped U.S. income taxation by virtue of not having been repatriated to the U.S.

It should be noted, however, that many closely-held U.S. corporations are also actively engaged in business overseas, and they, too, have

Many of our clients, most of which are closely-held U.S. businesses, are looking to expand their operations overseas. Some are venturing into foreign markets on their own, while others are joint-venturing with established foreign businesses.

In structuring a joint venture, the parties will often form a foreign business entity that affords a significant degree of

Coming to America

Whether they are acquiring an interest in U.S. real property or in a U.S. operating company, foreigners seek to structure their U.S. investments in a tax-efficient manner, so as to reduce their U.S. income tax liability with respect to both the current profits generated by the investment and the gain realized on