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North America Tax News & Developments - Volume 10, Issue 4

Newsletter
18 August 2010
Author/s: North America Tax Practice Group
Articles in this issue include:
  • A Taxpayer Victory in the Most Recent Battle Over Documents Disclosed to Independent Auditors
  • Tenth Circuit Finds No Economic Substance in Sala
  • Why the IRS Needs to Give Up Stock Option Ghost in Cost Sharing Arrangements
  • Calloway v. Commissioner: The Tax Court Issues the First of Two Consecutive Unfavorable Rulings in Share Lending Transactions
  • The Arm's Length Standard in the Real World: The Federal Court of Appeals Decision in GlaxoSmithKline Inc.
  • State Tax Developments
    • Illinois Offers a Tax Amnesty Program
    • Supreme Court Held Comity Barred Federal-Court Adjudication of Challenges to Certain State Tax Schemes
    • Throwout Rule Withstands Constitutional Challenge in Whirlpool
    • Remedies in State Tax Controversies: Fighting the Tide of Retroactive Tax Policy
    • Washington Implements Key Changes to the B&O Tax: Economic Nexus and Single Sales Factor
  • The First Round to the Taxpayer – Court Holds that Intercompany Transactions are Excluded in the Calculation of the Research Credit
  • Special "Split-Waiver" Election Permits Five-Year Carryback Without Forfeiting NOLs to Former Consolidated Group—Calendar Year Taxpayers Have Until September 15, 2010 to Take Advantage of the New Rules
  • Notice Outlines Forthcoming Entity Classification Regulations to Target Domestic Partnership Blocker Structures
 
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