Cross-border Tax Talks

Steve Kohart, PwC international tax partner and former OECD adviser, joins Doug McHoney to discuss the OECD's Pillar Two Administrative Guidance. They cover topics like safe harbor implementation, purchase price adjustments, hybrid arbitrage arrangements, CFC tax allocation, and potential additional guidance in 2024.

In this engaging discussion, Dom Megna, a New York-based tax partner at PwC, dives into the transformative role of AI in tax practices. He clarifies key concepts like generative AI, machine learning, and deep learning. The conversation highlights how AI can enhance data management and streamline documentation, emphasizing the need for human oversight. Dom also reflects on the evolving roles of tax professionals and the importance of responsible AI use, exploring both opportunities and challenges in this new frontier.

PwC's International Tax Services Global Leader Doug McHoney and ITS Partner Rebecca Lee discuss the history and challenges of Section 987 regulations on foreign exchange gains/losses for foreign branches. They analyze the 250-page package of the proposed regulations, its limitations, and its impact on industries like banking and insurance. The hosts also explain the implications for deferred tax assets, liabilities, and pillar two global minimum tax calculations.

Matt Ryan, London-based international tax partner and PwC UK’s Pillar Two Leader, joins Doug McHoney to discuss the challenge UK legislators face in enacting legislation while the OECD guidance is still changing. They explore practical next steps for UK-parented taxpayers, complexities created by UK rules around safe harbors, and issues with partnerships and deferred taxes.

Doug McHoney, PwC's International Tax Services Global Leader, and Will Morris, PwC's Global Tax Policy Leader, discuss the progress of Pillar Two. They explore the administration and adjudication process, potential FAQs and future guidance from the OECD, the recent EC guidance, retroactive OECD guidance implementation, and business participation in the process.

Doug McHoney (PwC’s International Tax Services Global Leader) is at PwC’s Global Transfer Pricing Conference where he’s joined by Giorgia Maffini. Giorgia is part of PwC’s Global Transfer Pricing team in London and was previously the Deputy Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division at the OECD. Doug and Giorgia discuss why taxpayers should care about Pillar One, starting with the basics - what is Pillar One and how does it work with Pillar Two? They discuss the complexities, scope and impacts of both Amount A and Amount B. Also the timing, economic impact, and what’s next. Finally, they address what might happen with digital services taxes and what companies should do next.

Doug McHoney and David Ernick discuss the transitional safe harbor rules for Country-by-country reporting (CbCR) in this podcast. They cover topics such as the safe harbor tests, exclusions, and differences between safe harbor and full GLoBE rules. They also discuss the history and implementation of public CBCR, challenges of transfer pricing adjustments, and the importance of Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs).

Doug McHoney, PwC's International Tax Services Global Leader, discusses US tax updates, including the fate of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. They also talk about Section 163(j), Treasury notices and guidance, foreign tax creditability, corporate alternative minimum tax, Section 367(b) regulations, and the Moore case.

Doug McHoney and Nils Cousin discuss tax treaties, mutual agreement procedures, competent authority, recent US tax treaty activities, treaty shopping, the USMCA Trade Agreement, and the future of tax treaties in the United States. Specific treaties discussed include those with Chile, Croatia, Hungary, Taiwan, and Russia.

Doug McHoney (PwC's International Tax Services Global Leader) and Wade Sutton (former Deputy International Tax Counsel for the US Treasury and newly appointed ITS leader of PwC’s Washington National Tax Practice) are back in Washington, D.C. to discuss the recent Supreme Court grant of certiorari for the Moore v. US case. Doug and Wade go back to their law school days to break down the Moore case, starting with the facts, procedural history, and the potential implications if Section 965 is ruled unconstitutional, including direct taxation, indirect taxation, subpart F, Section 245A, GILTI, and, as always, Pillar Two.