In a further indication of the IRS’s continued focus on international tax issues, the tax agency updated an International Practice Unit (IPU) summarizing the calculation and recapture of foreign and domestic losses and their impact on the foreign tax credit.
IRS issues audit tips on adjustments made in transfer pricing deals
In a new International Practice Unit (IPU), the IRS provides audit tips to its examiners on a taxpayer’s affirmative use of Internal Revenue Code Section 482, “Allocation of Income and Deductions.” That section of tax law gives the IRS the authority to make adjustments between or among members of a “controlled group,” if a controlled taxpayer hasn’t reported its true taxable income. (more…)