On its face, the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 (the “Act”) doesn’t sound much like legislation that affects the filing of taxes, because such legislation rarely does. The enactment of this Act promulgates changes…
I.R.C. § 6038 requires U.S. taxpayers to file Form 5471 (Information Return of U.S. Persons With Respect to Certain Foreign Corporations) with their tax returns. The reporting requirements of § 6038, as well as § 6046, require Form 5471 to…
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, enacted Dec. 18, 2015, extends a long list of expired tax provisions into the future. Unlike in past extension legislations, Congress extended many provisions permanently. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the total…