Taxpayers who have accrued or paid foreign income taxes in a U.S. possession or foreign country can generally deduct those taxes from their U.S. tax on foreign source income. The foreign...
Posted by Jim McClaflin, EA, NTPI Fellow, CTRC on 11/17/2022
If foreign tax credits exceed the limitation in a given taxable year, these can be carried back one year and forward up to ten years. Excess credits on general limitation income...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/25/2015
Capital gains and losses receive a special treatment under U.S tax law. Individual capital gains and losses are netted. Non corporate taxpayer’s net capital gains get a preferred...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/23/2015
After computation of creditable foreign income taxes, next step is to compute foreign tax credit limitation. Example: USAco has U.S source income = 200 Foreign source taxable...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/18/2015
Bases for asserting jurisdictions Who to tax? What income to tax? Personal relationship between a taxpayer and the country This concept also applies to corporations and other type...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 10/13/2015
Source of income can have significant impact on calculation of foreign tax credit limitation. Formula for foreign tax credit limitation = Pre-credit U.S tax x foreign...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 02/18/2015
Code Section 7701 (a)(30) U.S citizens are U.S Persons and Citizens of foreign countries are U.S Persons who meet either of the following two tests: Green Card test Substantial...
Posted by The Accounting and Tax on 12/28/2014
