International taxes

Boaz Schwartz was detained over alleged value-added-tax violations involving the company’s clients, the latest setback in the German firm’s attempts to end years of legal issues and misconduct.

This year, tax reform could give U.S. companies access to hundreds of billions of dollars they have stashed overseas. Many corporations can’t wait that long.

The deal expands the firm's international tax practice in New York.

The Internal Revenue Service is taking a new approach to tax compliance, with a series of 13 initiatives aimed at cracking down on tax evasion.

When White House press secretary Sean Spicer floated the idea of paying for a border wall with a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports, beer went flat.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s revised guidance on transfer pricing to prevent base erosion and profit shifting will have minor administration costs for the Internal Revenue Service, although the impact on companies is uncertain.

House Ways and Committee chairman Kevin Brady—fresh from a public-relations blitz aimed at selling a controversial plan for taxing U.S. businesses’ domestic sales and imports—now has to persuade his fellow Republicans in Congress.

Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump has released a “Contract with the American Voter,” outlining his 100-day plan to “make America Great Again,” including plans for a Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act.

Altus Group Ltd. plans to double its revenue in the next five years as the Canadian real estate data provider expands further into property-tax consulting with acquisitions in the U.S. and U.K.

Profitable companies that pay little in income taxes aren’t necessarily indulging in risky tax strategies, according to a new academic study.

Firm highlights its latest advances in audit, tax, analytics and consulting at its New York offices.

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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