According to new audit report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), current IRS procedures are insufficient to ensure that all foreign seller real estate transactions subject to the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 (FIRPTA) are in fact compliant with FIRPTA.
Read more →Robert Stack, Treasury deputy assistant secretary (International Tax Affairs), predicts that the department will face a difficult year in 2015 as it begins to tackle several of the tougher issues listed in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action
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