International taxes

Transfer pricing, once an arcane specialty, has been growing as more countries apply their own rules and regulations.

The Large Business and International Division is targeting virtual currency, S corporation distributions and more for extra scrutiny.

Volkswagen AG’s Porsche sports car unit is under investigation by the Stuttgart tax office over the way it accounted for marketing and catering expenses during the past 8 years, according to people familiar with the matter.

Leaders of tax enforcement authorities from the five countries have allied to create the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (or J5), to collaborate in fighting international and transnational tax crimes and money laundering.

Here are the major considerations to keep in mind when developing future strategies that are affected by the tax code's new provisions.

The European Union is on course to hand dozens of U.K.-based companies a pre-Brexit tax bombshell, according to people familiar with a state-aid probe that could lead to bills exceeding 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion).

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are going to amend the Section 987 regulations to postpone them for another year.

Ernst & Young has released a study on some trends it is seeing at companies around the world.

Corporate tax rates are falling around the world. Inequality expert Gabriel Zucman questions the conventional wisdom that they will goose investment and economic growth.

A growing proportion of U.S.-born expatriates do not feel they should be required to file taxes while they live abroad and about one-fifth of them are considering renouncing their U.S. citizenship, according to a new survey.

The agency is waiving some of the late-payment penalties pertaining to the section 965 transition tax on foreign earnings in the new tax law.

A district court decision could require rethinking tax strategies on assets held abroad.

For multinationals and companies with international vendors and customers, maintaining compliance can be a slippery slope fraught with curveballs and unforeseen regulatory changes.

Frankfurt prosecutors confirmed that they have charged six people — including three former London-based investment bankers — for allegedly getting improper refunds on dividend tax.

A couple of weeks ago I had lunch with Sidney Kess and Chaya Siegfried.

European authorities indicated they are open to dropping a case against Ireland for failing to collecting Apple Inc.’s tax arrears quickly enough, as the company paid over a first tranche of cash.

The U.S. lost a bid to help Apple Inc.’s court fight against the European Union’s order to pay Ireland a record 13 billion euros ($15.3 billion) in unpaid taxes.

Cash-rich companies that had been some of the biggest buyers of corporate bonds have started selling their holdings after tax law changes, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists.

A proposed tax on financial transactions in 10 European Union countries could generate about 19.6 billion euros ($23.5 billion) of annual revenue, though Brexit could make collection more difficult, according to a new estimate.

A key figure disappeared from Apple Inc.’s latest quarterly report. It’s also gone from the regulatory filings of Netflix Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google’s Alphabet Inc. and Oracle Corp.