International taxes

PricewaterhouseCoopers is bringing aboard more than 600 tax professionals from General Electric and acquiring GE’s tax technologies, the firm announced Thursday.

A one-year tax holiday for the more than $2 trillion parked overseas is clearly in the offing, experts say.

Moore Stephens Doeren Mayhew has merged with Emerson & Partner U.S. Tax GmbH, a firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Bank agrees to pay $95 million to settle allegations it used underfunded shell companies to evade taxes, the second time since 2010 that it resolved a government tax case.

Alphabet Inc.’s search engine company saved billions worldwide taxes by moving 14.9 billion euros ($15.5 billion) to a Bermuda shell company, new regulatory filings in the Netherlands reveal.

Apple Inc. has set up a court battle with European Union competition watchdogs who ordered Ireland to claw back a record 13 billion euros ($13.6 billion) in unpaid taxes.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of retribution against companies that move jobs out of the U.S. is already having the effect he probably intended: some business leaders are pausing plans to seek foreign addresses.

McDonald’s Corp. shrugged off Brexit by announcing plans to switch its non-U.S. tax base to the U.K., ditching tiny Luxembourg where its fiscal arrangements are under attack from European Union regulators.

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Boeing Co. received an illegal tax break from Washington state as part of $8.7 billion in aid to assemble the 777X and manufacture the jetliner’s carbon-fiber wing there, the World Trade Organization said.

When Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty in 2014 to helping Americans cheat on their taxes, it promised to help the U.S. root out suspicious accounts. Now, U.S. investigators want to know why the Swiss bank neglected to tell them about $200 million in undeclared assets owned by an American client, according to people familiar with the matter.

An emeritus professor of business administration in Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty to hiding $200 million in assets from the Internal Revenue Service by using offshore accounts at a bank that people familiar with the matter identified as Credit Suisse Group AG.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on controlled foreign corporations to provide rules about the treatment of U.S. property held by the CFC in connection with transactions involving partnerships.

Internal Revenue Service examiners confront some steep barriers when trying to audit the transfer pricing strategies used by multinational corporations to reduce their taxes, according to a new report.

Multinational corporations could end up shifting even more of their income to low-tax countries under some tax reform proposals, according to a new study.

The Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to prod taxpayers to disclose their offshore bank accounts and pay taxes on their holdings have reached the $10 billion mark and prompted over 100,000 taxpayers to come forward, the IRS said Friday.

The United Arab Emirates is setting up a federal tax authority that will be in charge of collecting levies, as the oil-rich Gulf nation seeks to diversify its revenue base with value-added taxation.

The U.S. Treasury Department softened new rules aimed at preventing multinational companies from shifting their profits offshore to lower-tax countries—a response to sustained criticism from big business and from members of Congress, who had asked that they be delayed and scaled back.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released final regulations on earnings stripping in an effort to reduce the tax benefits of corporate inversions.

Facebook Inc. is carrying on its fight with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over taxes relating to its transfer of global operations to Ireland in 2010.