Dance to the Music: The Proposed Foreign Tax Credit Regulations

Not again! Treasury has issued proposed regulations concerning the foreign tax credit (again) that address the cost recovery, attribution for royalty payment withholding tax, and defining a reattribution asset for purposes of allocating and apportioning foreign taxes. 87 Fed. Reg. 71,271 (Nov. 22, 2022). Applicability dates vary, but in all events the regulationss provide taxpayers the option to apply the proposed regulations, once finalized, to all foreign taxes that were subject to the modified provisions of the regulations that were finalized on January 4, 2022 (see 87 Fed. Reg. 276 (Jan. 4, 2022)).

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