Corporate taxes

Starbucks Corp. won a court fight and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV unit lost one over European Union tax orders in decisions that left lawyers puzzling over the impact on Apple Inc.’s chances of toppling a record 13 billion-euro ($14.3 billion) bill.

Corporations brought $88.3 billion of overseas profits back to the U.S. in the second quarter, marking nearly $1 trillion that has returned since Congress overhauled the international tax system.

The iPhone maker told a European Union court it was unfairly painted as a tax dodger as it sought to topple a massive EU back-tax bill.

Apple fights the world’s biggest tax case in a quiet courtroom this week, trying to rein in the European Union’s powerful antitrust chief.

More corporations can now apply for the Compliance Assurance Process program.

What many businesses don’t realize is that communications tax applies to much more than just the wireless and cable industries.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to audit corporate mergers and acquisitions and is wasting tens of thousands of days on cases that aren’t likely to generate more tax dollars.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to have a better strategy for determining the tax compliance or noncompliance of corporations that do mergers and acquisitions, according to a new report.

Tax laws tend to be boring, so sometimes it is easier to understand something if you know the reasoning behind it.

Almost 40 percent — or some $15 trillion — of the world’s foreign direct investment is “phantom capital” designed to minimize the tax bills of multinational firms, according to a study published by the International Monetary Fund.

Now a few of them have latched on to a generous new federal benefit for investing in lower-income U.S. communities.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to address billions of dollars worth of potentially erroneous carryforward tax credits and deductions claimed by businesses, according to a new report.

The protocols represent the first updates to U.S. tax treaties in nearly a decade.

Germany is looking to cap its corporate tax burden at 25 percent as the country seeks to help smaller businesses amid signs the economy is lurching into a recession.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued a notice saying they intend to issue regulations for determining global intangible low-taxed income.

Most CPAs are familiar with the tax benefit of using an IC-DISC, but many do not realize the additional benefit that can be generated by a different method of calculation.

The federal government is collecting billions of dollars less than it could because of resource shortages at the tax agency, according to a new study.

The cost can be enormous in terms of taxes paid unnecessarily, and more.

The Trump administration’s tax cuts have had little direct impact on business investment decisions, according to an analysis by the International Monetary Fund.

Uber Technologies Inc., responding to a European crackdown on offshore tax havens, created a $6.1 billion Dutch tax deduction that will help the company reduce a chunk of its global tax bill for years to come.