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Accounting for Income Taxes Quarterly Hot Topics highlights certain recent tax and accounting developments that may have accounting for income tax (ASC 740) implications.
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September 2017
Accounting developments
- Heads Up—FASB makes targeted changes to guidance on accounting for certain financial instruments with down-round features
Tax law developments
- US Federal
- Disgorgement payments made by defendants in enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Notice 2017-36 delays application of Section 385 documentation regulations
- Federal research tax credit safe-harbor based on ASC 730 costs
- Multistate
- California, Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas
- Amnesty/Voluntary Disclosures
- Multistate Tax Commission
- Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia
- IRS Conformity
- International
- Germany: Restriction on deductibility of royalty payments enacted
- Australia: Chevron withdraws appeal to the High Court in Australia in landmark transfer pricing case
- On the Horizon
- Multistate Tax Commission
- State Conformity to Federal Provisions—Exploring the Variances
- Oregon
- France: Supreme Administrative Court issued two preliminary decisions involving the application of the foreign tax credit
- OECD: Draft of 2017 update to model tax treaty released
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September 2017
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