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Pension Reform Could Disrupt Investment Funds
Detroit’s financial woes, exacerbated by underfunded pension liabilities, have brought renewed scrutiny to public pension plans. Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, and others have suggested...
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Bezos’s acquisition of Wa Po
Jeff Bezos’s purchase of The Washington Post raises the possibility that he acquired the paper as a trophy to celebrate his success as the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com. The acquisition...
View ArticleA Holiday From Taxes
Large multinationals based in the United States – among them General Electric, Pfizer, Apple and Citigroup – have been hoarding record amounts of cash overseas, mainly because of the 35 percent tax...
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Why Twitter May Have to Pay Income Taxes One Day – NYTimes.com
Potential investors in Twitters’s planned initial public offering may be struggling to estimate how much the company will have to pay in taxes in the future. An article in Politico on Friday...
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An Offbeat Merger
Other methods of tax avoidance have received less news media attention but are no less troubling. A recent deal by LIN Media, a media company backed by the private equity firm HM Capital Partners and...
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Baucus International Tax Proposal
Changes to the tax code always create winners and losers. An ambitious plan to revise the system for taxing multinational corporations, released on Tuesday by the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Max...
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Baucus Cost Recovery Proposal
A tax proposal released on Thursday by the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, addresses a topic that tends to make my students’ eyes glaze over: cost recovery.Cost recovery is a...
View ArticleTaxes Won’t Kill Bitcoin, but Tax Reporting Might – NYTimes.com
My take on the bitcoin guidance: Bitcoin is a digital representation of value, not a real currency, according to the latest pronouncement from the Internal Revenue Service.The I.R.S. on Tuesday...
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How Tax Laws Distort the Pfizer Deal
But the clearest distortion is not size, but location. For multinational corporations based in the United States, taxes create an incentive to expand overseas operations by opening foreign...
View ArticleObama can increase the tax on carried interest unilaterally
My latest Dealbook column: President Obama could change the tax treatment of carried interest with a phone call to the Treasury Department. But the White House will need a precise understanding of the...
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