As a proud member of the Academy of Attorney-CPAs (AAA-CPA), our firm is elated to congratulate William B. LeVay who was installed as the 56th President of AAA-CPA on July 9, 2019. Mr. LeVay was installed during the Academy’s Annual Meeting & Education Conference held in Orange Beach, Alabama. Jo Ann Koontz of Sarasota, Florida […]
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For those interested in tax treaty implications of the latest US tax reform, we recently published an article with Tax Notes International that took a specific position on an issue being highly contested in the international tax community. While we did not request anyone to “challenge” our conclusion, we stated that we would love to
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Marc spent the week of May 19th – 22nd with Managing Partners of dozens of other US and foreign advisory firms at Allinial Global’s 2019 Executive Team Conference in Napa, California. As a smaller firm of international tax nerds, we relish the opportunity to learn how the larger firms handle their complex issues, whether they
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recognized in a June 14th court filing that the French Generalized Social Contribution (CSG) and the Contribution for the repayment of social debt (CRDS), are, in fact creditable taxes for US tax purposes. This ends a 7-year legal battle about whether the CSG and the CRDS were “social taxes”
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While most were shoveling snow and battling the winter winds, Marc spent the week of February 24-26 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico with dozens of Managing Partners of Latin American and Caribbean advisory firms. Having lived in Mexico City for almost 2 ½ years as an international tax nerd, Marc appreciated the opportunity to refresh
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We would like to send a special thanks to Monte Raynor and the Big Frog Custom T-shirts of Fayetteville team for finally allowing us to show our international tax nerd-ness on our sleeves! Don’t forget to contact Schwartz International for all your individual or company international tax needs. Visit us at www.schwartzintl.com.
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On Thursday, April 25th Simone Alting spoke about International Tax Policy at the Georgia Society of CPAs (GSCPA) Decision Makers Conference. Here is a snippet of what she covered: Despite budget constraints and key vacancies, the IRS continues to target international issues and assert large penalties. The IRS is focused on FBAR violations, expanded foreign
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The IRS has announced that starting May 13, 2019, only individuals with either a Social Security Number (“SSN”) or an Individual Tax Identification Number (“ITIN”) may be listed as the ‘responsible party’ on an entity’s Employer Identification Number (“EIN”) application on Form SS-4 (“The SS-4”). The SS-4 instruction’s define responsible party as, “the person who
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Marc Schwartz was pleased to be invited to present an international tax training seminar to the Cleveland and Akron, Ohio-based firm of Bober Markey Fedorovich (“BMF”) on January 31. With Ohio’s negative 4 degree temperature that week, Marc is glad his home-base is Atlanta and he presented via webinar. Marc provided an update on international
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Marc Schwartz and Simone Alting were pleased to be invited to present an update on international tax topics to the North Atlanta Tax Council (NATC) on January 18. They discussed a broad overview of the policies the law is intended to support, including the concept that tax changes might motivate companies to “move jobs back
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