MNEs get easy ride under US repatriation and GILTI regimes as US expats pick up the bill

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MNEs get easy ride under US repatriation and GILTI regimes as US expats pick up the bill

May 22 2018
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Although the 2017 US Tax Cuts and Job Act (TCJA) aimed to cut taxes for all Americans, individual US shareholders of controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) living outside the US (expats) are being discriminated against under the repatriation and GILTI tax regimes. Monte Silver of Silver & Co in Israel explains why the likes of Google and Apple are getting a good deal.

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