TCJA and Expanding the definition of and number of "Controlled Foreign Corporations" subject to Subpart F

As goes the number of “Controlled Foreign Corporations“, so goes the size of the U.S. tax base. The “messaging” was that the United States was moving to a system of […]

Take YOUR Money And Run: Understanding The Proposed § 899. ENFORCEMENT OF REMEDIES AGAINST UNFAIR FOREIGN TAXES

Update – June 27, 2025 – The 899 Penalty Tax has been removed from the “Big Beautiful Bill”: Although the removal of the proposed 899 #penaltytax is a good thing, […]

Part 43 – The 1996 Treasury Regs, 2017 TCJA And The Looting Of Canadian Controlled Private Corporations

Punishing U.S. citizens who live outside the United States As Tax Residents Of Canada "The Little Red Transition Tax Book" – Everything you need to know about the 965bmandatory repatriation […]

Treasury 26 CFR § 301.7701-2 – Business entity definitions discriminate against Canadian Controlled Private Corporations

Synopsis: The power to regulate is the power to destroy! That's why the regulatory process should require careful consideration of how and to whom regs apply. It's time for Treasury […]

US Treasury proposes that foreign income subject to high foreign tax be excluded from definition of #GILTI

In general – Good News For American Entrepreneurs Abroad … On Friday June 14, 2019 US Treasury proposed in Notice 2019-12436 that any foreign income earned by Controlled Foreign Corporations […]

Part 1: CCPCs – Why the Government of Canada is attacking the use of Canadian Controlled Private Corporations as personal pension plans

Introduction I have previously written about the “Worldwide trend of attacking the use of corporations as a way to reduce or defer taxation for individuals“. This is a continuation of […]

US tax reform bill appears to confiscate 12% (updated to 14%) of retained earnings of certain Canadian Controlled Private Corporations

Update November 9, 2017 Today Chairman Brady concluded the “Mark Up” period of his proposed tax legislation. The “Mark Up” period contained NO move to “territorial taxation” for individuals. It […]

The worldwide trend of attacking the use of corporations as a way to reduce or defer taxation for individuals

Introduction – The war against corporations and the shareholders of those corporations Corporations as entities that are separate from their shareholder/owners As every law students knows, a corporation is a […]

A #GILTI Carveout For INDIVIDUAL CFC Shareholders Of Certain Virgin Islands Corps

Introduction and purpose: The Big Beautiful Bill (“BBB”) Contains many surprises. Yesterday, I wrote a first post about a section of the BBB that addressed the application of the GILTI […]