Private Client Services Partner, Thomas Giordano-Lascari, published the article, "Supreme Court Can Guide Congress in Foreign Earnings Tax Case" to Bloomberg Tax.

Excerpts:

In the tax world, the Supreme Court’s decision to hear arguments in Moore v. United States is a big deal because it challenges the constitutionality of a tax on foreign earnings known as a mandatory repatriation tax, or MRT, under Section 965 of the tax code.

The plaintiffs argue that the MRT is a direct tax on property and must be apportioned. Specifically, they say the MRT isn’t a tax on “income,” as interpreted under the Sixteenth Amendment. The essence of this argument is that the plaintiffs, as shareholders of a controlled foreign corporation, haven’t “realized” any income but instead are being taxed on the value of their shares as measured by that corporation’s retained earnings—a direct tax on property.

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