Simone Alting brings a wealth of experience to Schwartz International. Growing up in her native Germany, she rounded out her formal education there with a law degree before coming to the US 20 years ago. With her LLM (Tax) and CPA credential, she’s an integral part of the SI’s global tax and advisory team. Please […]
Simone Alting Educates us on Usufruct and its US Estate/Gift Tax Implications Read More »
The 2 November Republican proposed tax plan has several significant international tax provisions. Take a quick look at our summary —Â Republican Tax Bill.
Proposed International Tax Reform Summary Read More »
Marc Schwartz attended the latest Corporate Tax Alliance (CTA) global meeting in Berlin, Germany September 8 and 9. The annual meeting focused on practical global tax strategies and effective implementation. “It’s important to get face-to-face with our global colleagues to discuss ‘live’ issues. This helps ensure appropriate strategy implementation for our global client base, whether
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Marc Schwartz and Paul Tadros were honored to be invited to speak at the Georgia Society of CPA (GSCPA) annual Southeastern Accounting Show (SEAS) on August 30, 2017 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA. The pair spoke about possible international tax reform coming out of the US, including the potential pitfalls of the
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Value Added Tax (VAT), Border Adjustment Tax (BAT) and other terms are being used by all sides in the debate on international tax reform. The problem is that people are misunderstanding them. Read our latest article on tax reform — The Value-Added Tax And Border Adjustment Tax Debate: Enough Is Enough — to get our take
SI’s take on International Tax Reform — Let’s get the facts straight Read More »
Most of you already know the US government shares data about you. Now there’s more people subject to the rules — those earning bank deposit interest income in the US and who are from newly-listed countries. The IRS recently issued Rev. Proc. 2017-31 which updates Rev. Proc. 2016-56 (issued December 2016) adding jurisdictions from Rev. Proc. 2014-64. If you’re
Want privacy in the tax world? Think again Read More »
Schwartz International participated in Allinial Global’s first Asia Pacific Conference last week in Shanghai. Marc Schwartz ran his mouth for three days speaking non-stop about global tax issues, planning, implementation and compliance — and his new colleagues were still willing to spend time with him! Check out Allinial Global at https://www.allinialglobal.com/ to see how the
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Teaming with Bo Jackson (no, not that Bo Jackson — the Atlanta CPA), SI’s Richard Hartnig and Marc Schwartz revisit various US tax issues related to Cuba. Last year the IRS made a few constructive changes, and we wanted to revisit those as we await the Trump Administration’s Cuba policy. See page 11 for the
Investing in Cuba? Read More »
Click on the below link to see SI’s latest article on proposed US-international tax reform, written by SI’s Paul Tadros, Richard Hartnig and Marc Schwartz. The article reviews the VAT concept, dispels the notion that VAT and the proposed border adjustment tax are similar and provides additional commentary.  Border Adjustment Tax Article — Global-Tax-Weekly_March 2 (005)
The Proposed Border Adjustment Tax is Not a VAT Read More »
Have you or someone you know been thinking of renouncing U.S. citizenship? There are multiple tax implications when considering this, so it is important to understand the full impact of this decision. Marc Schwartz recently partnered with Illumeo to create an online course where attendees: Discover why/how the U.S. taxes based on citizenship and not
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