United States | Publication | April 2022
The throwback tax is the US tax law’s main tool for discouraging tax-free accumulation of income by foreign non-grantor trusts for US beneficiaries. Its complex rules are a dangerous minefield that should be avoided. This article reviews the operation of the throwback tax rules, and assesses the effectiveness of this trust anti-deferral regime in various fact patterns. It also discusses how the trust anti-deferral regime interacts with the US law’s foreign corporation anti-deferral regime, another minefield.
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While country risk cannot be avoided in cross-border transactions entirely, it can be effectively mitigated through careful transaction structuring and tailored contractual protections.
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Miranda Cole, Julien Haverals and Emma Clarke of our Brussels/ London offices are the authors of a chapter on procedural issues in merger control that has been published in the third edition of the Global Competition Review’s The Guide to Life Sciences. This covers a number of significant procedural developments that have affected merger review of life sciences transactions.
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