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New Proposed PTEP Regulations: Maintaining Shareholder Accounts, Tracking Basis Adjustments, Implementation

A live 110-minute CPE webinar with interactive Q&A

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

1:00pm-2:50pm EST, 10:00am-11:50am PST

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, February 14, 2025

or call 1-800-926-7926

This webinar will review the key components of the new proposed PTEP (previously taxed earnings and profits) regulations for CFCs, international shareholders, and multinational entities. Our panel of astute international tax experts will address the updates made to Sections 959 and 961 and point out the issues the new regulations will resolve as well as those that are still problematic. They will recommend steps international practitioners need to take immediately to prepare for these modifications to the U.S. foreign taxation regime.

Description

Described as highly-anticipated and overdue, the Treasury and IRS published proposed PTEP regulations (REG-105479-18) on Dec. 2, 2024. They offer much-needed clarification to extensive changes made under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). TCJA added several new provisions, including GILTI, BEAT, FDII, and a Section 965 transition tax on previously untaxed foreign income. The PTEP rules are meant to circumvent double taxation when, for example, a foreign corporation distributes a dividend to a U.S. shareholder that has been previously taxed. As expected, the regulations are highly complex, leaving many questions unresolved and creating the need for additional clarification.

Significant provisions include revisions under IRC Section 959 requiring PTEP accounts at the shareholder level in addition to the foreign corporation. The foreign corporation's PTEP is divided into 10 groups and two subgroups and maintained in the foreign corporation's functional currency. Shareholders must maintain dollar basis and tax pools annually. Also key, the newly proposed regulations provide new rules for calculating lower-tier basis and have added the term "derived basis" and provisions for basis adjustments for lower-tier CFC and partnership interests owned directly by another partnership.

The proposed PTEP regulations will be effective retroactively when and if finalized, and the reach of these regulations is considerable. Tax practitioners serving multinational taxpayers need to prepare for its impact.

Listen as our panel of authoritative international tax veterans explains the effect of the long-awaited PTEP regulations on multinational entities.

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Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. PTEP accounting
  3. Shareholder accounts
  4. Basis adjustments
  5. Ordering rules
  6. Partnership rules
  7. Consolidated return rules
  8. Foreign currency provisions
  9. Other components
  10. Effective date
  11. Implementation

Benefits

The panel will cover these and other critical issues:

  • Complying with shareholder account maintenance provisions under the proposed PTEP regulations
  • Calculating lower-tier basis under the new regulations
  • Steps multinational entities and their advisers should take to prepare for foreign regulation changes
  • Key issues not addressed in the proposed PTEP regulations

Faculty

Bordia, Surbhi
Surbhi Bordia

Partner
Armanino

Ms. Bordia has over 10 years of public accounting experience. She addresses complex tax issues that impact...  |  Read More

Furmanek, Cynthia
Cynthia Furmanek

Senior Manager
PwC

Ms. Furmanek is a senior manager in the International Tax Services practice at PwC’s Silicon Valley office....  |  Read More

Gbegnon, Kodj
Kodj Gbegnon

Principal
PwC

Mr. Gbegnon is a partner in the International Tax Services practice at PwC’s Silicon Valley office (San...  |  Read More

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