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Hey, anyone hear the one about the new tax rules enacted by the US Congress in late 2017? Of course, we all did. Inevitably, unavoidably, somewhere, sometime in December, we read or heard something about the new US tax bill signed into law just before Christmas. However, what you have heard about it might be irrelevant to your circumstances or, worse, might generate “white noise”, distracting you from what is in fact relevant to your circumstances. Even more worrisome, the distinction may not be clear. The modification of an organism as vast, complex and ungainly as the US Internal Revenue Code is like dredging an ocean harbor to install port facilities: From the perspective of the harbor, the entire ocean is now different; from the perspective of the ocean, nothing much has changed at all. Therefore, a beneficial analysis of tax code revisions must understand when its readers are in the ports and when they are in the middle of the ocean.
Accordingly, this blog (or rather set of blogs) will seek to do just that, concentrating on the elements of the new tax laws that are relevant – either directly or indirectly – to its core readership: Swiss financial institutions and Swiss (or other non-US) investors in US financial assets. Thus, it will de-emphasize the parts that have little impact on an international readership (even the…. drumroll please… HEADLINE political news). Finally, it will seek to present a three-dimensional view of the package of changes that affect a specific type of non-US taxpayer or industry, rather than simply listing each changed provision while expecting the reader to integrate the various parts into a comprehensive understanding of the new US tax landscape. As I am a tax specialist, you’ll not be surprised when I begin with caveats. The blog will not cover the following topics in detail, though some or all may be critical to the impact of the new tax bill:
And thus, we move onwards to Part II, the actual analyses of the bill, which will be posted over the coming days and feature the following themes:
Part II of this blog series dissecting the new US tax code provisions will be published in a few days’ time. If you wish to be automatically notified when it’s posted, please send an email to blog@millentaxandlegal.ch and you will be added to our subscriber list Comments are closed.
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