United States of America v. Facebook, Inc. and Subsidiaries
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3:16-cv-03777
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November 16, 2018
IRS, Facebook Resolve Document Row In Transfer Pricing Case
A California federal court has declared that Facebook Inc. and the Internal Revenue Service have resolved their disagreement over privileged documents in their transfer pricing dispute.
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May 01, 2018
Facebook Must Explain Privilege Claims In Transfer Pricing Suit
A California federal court on Monday gave Facebook 14 days to explain why three of the 15 documents the social media giant submitted in its transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service were entitled to continued privilege.
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March 28, 2018
Feds Can Pick 15 Facebook Docs For Court Review In Tax Row
A California judge will allow the federal government to have a court review of up to 15 Facebook documents from a larger collection it is trying to access in a lawsuit related to an IRS audit of the social media company's transfer pricing practices, according to a court order on Wednesday.
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March 05, 2018
Facebook Backs Tax Docs Privilege In Transfer Pricing Row
Facebook Inc. argued on Friday that the IRS' statement that some of the company's documents in a transfer pricing dispute should not be protected by privilege was incorrect because they reflect confidential tax advice, not business advice, and the online social media giant properly followed legal requirements in its discovery entry logs.
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February 09, 2018
Facebook Docs Not Privileged, US Argues In Tax Dispute
Documents withheld by Facebook Inc. in its transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service are not protected by privilege because they pertain to business development and not trial preparation, U.S. Department of Justice attorneys said Thursday in California federal court ahead of a March 29 hearing on whether the company should produce the documents.
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January 10, 2018
Facebook, Feds Narrow Dispute Over IRS Summonses
Facebook Inc. and the U.S. government have resolved some disagreements over seven summonses from the Internal Revenue Service seeking information on how the social media giant transfers rights from its worldwide business through Facebook Ireland, according to a court filing Tuesday.
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October 25, 2016
IRS Says Facebook Must Comply With Summonses In Tax Row
The Internal Revenue Service urged a California federal judge Tuesday to enforce the agency's seven summonses against Facebook Inc. seeking information on how the social media giant transfers rights from its worldwide business through Facebook Ireland, saying the requests are clear and not overly broad.
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October 12, 2016
Facebook Fights IRS' $8B Irish Transfer Pricing Hike
Facebook mounted a challenge Tuesday to IRS transfer pricing adjustments that could put the social media giant on the hook for billions of dollars in future tax obligations, telling the U.S. Tax Court that license agreements handed to Facebook's Irish subsidiary were correctly reported as worth roughly $6 billion rather than nearly $14 billion.
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August 10, 2016
Facebook Must Explain Snubbed IRS Summonses, Judge Says
A California federal judge on Wednesday ordered Facebook Inc. to explain why it hasn't complied with seven Internal Revenue Service summonses seeking information on how the social media giant transfers rights from its worldwide business through Facebook Ireland.
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July 06, 2016
Facebook Must Produce Irish Unit Records, IRS Says
The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday asked a California federal court to enforce summonses it served to Facebook last month seeking information about the way the company transfers rights from its worldwide business through Facebook Ireland.