International taxes

The Internal Revenue Service issued a set of proposed rules on the new BEAT provisions added by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The draft reporting standard aims to provide more transparency around corporate tax payments.

The Dallas-based global tax services firm is expanding in Europe.

Europe’s efforts to tax large tech companies were kept on life-support Tuesday as France and Germany proposed a final-hour compromise that scales back the broad plan initially envisioned by Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron could introduce emergency tax cuts to quell violent protests, a move that risks worsening the country’s budget deficit.

Austria is trying to free about 70 billion euros ($80 billion) of capital locked in a “golden cage” the country created a few decades ago.

The widow of a onetime Frenchman billionaire won a round of her fight against a criminal tax investigation linked to the Panama Papers leak that initially targeted her husband.

Tax authorities swooped in on Walt Disney Co.’s Paris premises last year hunting for evidence to determine whether the entertainment giant improperly shifted revenue abroad, according to a series of court rulings from this month that tossed out claims the raids were illegal.

Major changes in last year’s tax overhaul include the so-called GILTI provisions, and the IRS has issued proposed regulations for them.

Resistance continues against a levy that divides the region’s governments and threatens to fragment its single market.