December 11, 2024
Liberty Global cannot use a recent ruling that allowed Exxon Mobil a tax deduction for interest payments to claim a deduction for dividends that arose from its intragroup shuffling of a Belgian affiliate, the U.S. government told the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday.
December 10, 2024
A ruling allowing Exxon Mobil a U.S. tax deduction for interest expenses in its natural gas deal with Qatar confirms that Liberty Global is entitled to a deduction related to its sale of a Belgian affiliate, an attorney for the telecommunications company told the Tenth Circuit.
November 19, 2024
The economic substance doctrine is broad and can invalidate telecommunications company Liberty Global's transaction that led to a $2.4 billion deduction because steps taken to maximize the tax break lacked business purpose, a government attorney told the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday.
November 07, 2024
A U.S. Tax Court decision that granted medical device company Varian Medical Systems a deduction for dividends received from foreign subsidiaries does not support Liberty Global's claims to a $110 million tax refund, the federal government told the Tenth Circuit on Thursday.
August 02, 2024
The IRS is trying to block Liberty Global's bid for a $110 million tax refund by improperly using a legal doctrine requiring transactions to have economic substance, the telecommunications giant told the Tenth Circuit, arguing it was allowed to make tax-driven choices in the transactions at issue.
July 18, 2024
Tax attorneys will be tracking several high-stakes cases in the second half of 2024 that could define the bounds of the IRS' ability to craft regulations or lodge direct challenges aimed at what it sees as the tax avoidance maneuvers of multinational corporations. Here, Law360 looks at key international tax cases to follow during the rest of the year.
July 05, 2024
In the coming months, the U.S. Treasury and the IRS will defend rules designed to go after what they consider as abusive tax practices, including the economic substance doctrine, the Corporate Transparency Act and the moratorium on employee retention tax credits. Here, Law360 looks at key federal tax cases to watch in the rest of 2024.
June 27, 2024
The U.S. government urged the Tenth Circuit on Thursday to reject telecommunication giant Liberty Global's push for a $110 million tax refund, arguing a lower court correctly deduced that the company's business restructurings were carried out solely to avoid tax.
May 07, 2024
The Tenth Circuit must not uphold a Colorado federal court's ruling that it didn't need to determine whether economic substance doctrine was relevant before disallowing an intercompany transaction by Liberty Global Inc., three business groups told the Tenth Circuit in briefs Tuesday.
May 06, 2024
To preserve the stability of federal tax law, the Tenth Circuit should reverse a lower court's finding that it needn't determine the economic substance doctrine is relevant before disallowing a transaction's tax benefits, the National Foreign Trade Council said Monday, supporting telecommunications firm Liberty Global.