Sentences with phrase «tax deal the company»

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When considering a business sale, a company owner typically faces a daunting intersection of several planning issues related to deal structure decisions, legal and regulatory considerations, income - tax minimization planning, wealth transfer, philanthropic strategies and capital - sufficiency analysis.

When the company announced the tax cut bonus in January, it told the union that the pay would not be distributed until a deal was signed.

Leder didn't reveal the multiple fetched by her company, writing only: «While I negotiated mightily for the keys to the Gulfstream, the corporate apartment in Paris, the company yacht, the lifetime consulting contract and, of course, a tax gross up — all crazy perks we've written about in various M&A deals — I came up empty handed.»

Fastfood chain McDonald's (mcd) and French energy company Engie are next in the EU crosshairs over their Luxembourg tax deals.

EU regulators are expected to order Amazon on Wednesday to pay Luxembourg millions of euros in back taxes, a person familiar with the matter said, the latest global company to be hit by an EU crackdown on unfair tax deals.

Thanks to tax cuts, companies have access to more cash they can spend on deals.

Returns were lousy, the early - stage companies the funds invested in constantly needed more money, and Ontario had already decided to cancel its tax credit in 2010, which became a deal - breaker for many investors.

Although it has been reported by those close to the Burger King deal that its relocation to Canada is not primarily motivated for tax reasons, the move would empower the company to repatriate profits on its overseas business at a lower rate.

But these deals, called tax - equity deals, are relatively expensive to structure and only a small number of companies appear interested.

Inversion is a process whereby a bigger organization targets and acquires a smaller firm that's located in a more corporate tax - friendly country, with the deal structured so that the smaller company becomes the controlling partner of the larger firm.

These deals are set up in a way so that the investing company reaps the renewable energy tax credits generated by the projects.

Multinational companies can expect the European Commission to press on with a crack down on sweetheart tax deals after handing Apple a breathtaking demand for 13 billion euros, officials and experts said on Wednesday.

Cook's remarks, made on CBS's 60 Minutes, come amid a debate in the U.S. over corporations avoiding taxes through techniques such as so - called inversion deals, where a company re-domiciles its tax base to another country.

Many of the recent Big Pharma deals and acquisition proposals have been motivated by the companies» desire to lower their tax rate by acquiring a foreign rival and moving their headquarters overseas in a process known as an inversion.

The Obama administration has been gunning for so called «inversions», in which a U.S. company buys a smaller foreign company and then locates the merged company outside the U.S. for tax purposes, for over a year, but that hasn't stopped the flow of deals.

Pfizer may face regulatory hurdles with its proposed merger, amid news on Wednesday that the Treasury Department is looking to stem the tide of companies exiting the U.S. through tax inversions, which is one of Pfizer's motivations for doing a deal with Dublin - based Allergan.

Investors shifted their focus to whether Pfizer would split after the company terminated a $ 160 billion deal to acquire Irish drugmaker Allergan Plc in April due to new U.S. tax inversion rules.

ETE said it provided written notice terminating the deal due to failure of conditions under the merger agreement, including company counsel Latham's inability to deliver the required tax opinion.

The corporate headquarters of the new global company will be in Canada but, despite much speculation about the possible tax benefits of such a deal, Behring said taxes weren't a motivating force for the move.

The European Commission is taking legal action against Ireland and Luxembourg for allegedly giving sweetheart tax deals to companies like iPhone maker Apple and burger chain McDonalds that allowed them to shift profits from other EU nations.

In November, Starboard Value pressed Yahoo and Mayer to reverse the company's plan to spin off its large stake in Alibaba, worth north of $ 25 billion, amid tax concerns about the deal.

Meanwhile, to keep the reforms deficit - neutral, meaning that they would pay for themselves, Obama's deal includes a tax on profits that U.S. companies hold overseas.

If, in our hypothetical example, the tax man agrees with your company's judgment about the spin - off's tax - free status, you will be guaranteed that treatment once the deal happens — with one important caveat.

The deal values the combined company at $ 160 billion (including debt), and, as expected, is structured in such a way as to reduce Pfizer's tax bill by moving its domicile out of the U.S. to Ireland.

And in a major blow to Minnesota's business reputation, medical device manufacturer Medtronic, an iconic Minnesota company that was founded in a Minneapolis garage 65 years ago, is moving its headquarters to Ireland in a so - called «tax inversion» deal.

Sanofi CFO Jérôme Contamine said the company would benefit from «the new tax environment in the U.S.» as part of the Bioverativ deal in an analyst call Monday.

That deal raised hackles because it relocated the merged companies headquarters to Canada, a move critics said was aimed at avoiding taxes.

Not willing to call Twitter's bluff, the city offered a deal to the company, which now works out of space in the gritty but fashionable South of Market district where many Internet start - ups begin: move to a building in the even more gritty and decidedly less fashionable mid-Market neighborhood — on a section of Market Street that is marred by drug dealing, homeless encampments and shuttered storefronts — and get a payroll tax exemption.

A deal, which could be reached as soon as this week, would mean the iconically American company would be headquartered in Canada, and benefit from the country's lower corporate tax rate, 15 percent, compared to the on - paper 35 percent rate in the U.S.

Other topics likely to come up include Berkshire's decision to team up with Amazon and JPMorgan Chase to form a new company to lower health care costs; Berkshire's growing pile of cash and the environment for deal making; and the tax cuts passed late last year, which provided Berkshire with a hefty windfall.

In addition, Canadian companies are dealing with heightened levels of uncertainty related to U.S. tax and trade policies.

Ironically, among the list of these so - called «tax inversion» deals complied by the Washington Post is Tim Hortons — it was technically repatriated to Canada from the U.S. when former owner Wendy's spun it out into a public company in 2006.

A central plank in the report deals with the Income Tax Act, which allows companies to deduct the cost of advertising on all Internet sites.

Tax cuts and economic growth are spurring a spending spree by U.S. companies on deal making as well as share buybacks.

With the deal, the Seattle - based company is on track to collect sales taxes in 12 states, which make up about 40 % of the U.S. population, by 2016.

Harbor might work, for example, with a company that owns and operates commercial properties and that regularly issues real estate securities like bonds or stock in a building, but which also needs to deal with complex legal stuff, like tax withholdings and minimum investor requirements.

Companies doing business in Canada face a number of challenges as they deal with customs documentation and adapt their operations for sales tax accounting, procurement procedures and even packaging and labeling.

Over the last two years or so, though, the EC has been looking at special tax deals member countries have been giving to companies; where it finds that a country has provided special tax treatment to one particular company (and not granted similar tax treatment to other companies), it has held that the country provided «state aid» to that company.

The big increase in the in the last six months of 2012 was because of tax changes, with entrepreneurs and companies trying to close deals before New Year's to take advantage of capital gains treatment, John Guzzo, managing director of Berkery Noyes, said.

«If they are the only company taking a one - time tax write off that would be disconcerting but the fact that nearly everyone is doing it implies it is not a big deal,» said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of 50 Park investments, an investment advisory service.

Employees of the Danish customer service firm Zendesk fan out into the poverty - stricken Tenderloin neighborhood to help in area schools and work in food kitchens, though it's part of a deal with the city that earns the company a break in payroll taxes.

Home - Stake Production Company of Tulsa lured these well - heeled speculators into a deal crammed with tax benefits.

Without getting into a great deal of song and dance about a side topic, I'll just say that I believe our GDP growth would explode as companies rushed to establish operational headquarters in the US, and the changes in the individual income tax codes would have a chilling effect on both the Wall Street money churners (people would be rewarded for going long with their investments instead of shuffling money around to chase pennies) and the out - of - control executive compensation at the expense of the long - term health of the company.

For peoples subject to, or allied with, the Roman state, this change in the form of government did not make a great deal of difference, except that in the early years of the empire the power struggles which accompanied the decline of the republic seemed to have come to an end, and tax - collection by private companies, often accompanied by extortion, was replaced by tax - collection by civil servants.

The five written complaints made by the CIOT to the EU Commission are as follows: · Attribution of gains — that the capital gains tax provisions dealing with assets held through non UK - resident closely controlled companies remain contrary to EU fundamental principles of freedom of establishment and free movement of capital.

The public accounts committee (PAC) substantiated claims from UK Uncut, which campaigns against corporate tax avoidance, and suggested there are # 25 billion of outstanding tax issues with big companies which Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has failed to deal with.

In December, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee supported LITRG's call for an independent review of tax credit compliance processes following significant delays and difficulties faced by tax credit claimants trying to deal with Concentrix, the private company hired by HMRC to carry out tax credit checks on their behalf.

In late November, Donald Trump negotiated his deal with the Indiana - based company Carrier to keep 1,000 jobs in the U.S in exchange for tax incentives.

Over the last few weeks we have heard a good deal about the tiny amounts of corporation tax being paid in the UK by companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Google.

Tompkins County claims it is the first county in New York State to reach a deal with home rental company Airbnb to pay the local hotel room occupancy tax.