US TAX
MB Partners LLP provides U.S. tax services to a wide range of businesses in the manufacturing, transportation, high-tech engineering, software-consulting, and wholesale industries.
The tax regime in the U.S. is becoming even more complex and is aggressively targeting foreign entities. It is more important than ever before that you take measures to assess your exposure, and where warranted, file appropriate returns in the U.S. It is equally important to ensure that you adequately plan and structure your cross border activities to meet the appropriate U.S. requirements as well as to minimize tax. Before you make any decisions about your cross border activities, let us help you navigate the complexities.
Cross-border U.S. - Canada tax planning
MB Partners LLP advises Canadian businesses in structuring their U.S. business expansion in the most tax efficient manner.
U.S. companies with Canadian operations
We advise U.S. companies with Canadian operations, on in-/out-bound transactions, foreign-to-foreign reorganizations, profit repatriation, preparation of foreign earnings and profits calculations, amongst other U.S. based studies.
Canadians with property in the U.S.
MB Partners LLP provides a comprehensive solution for acquiring, operating and disposing of real estate and other passive investments in the United States.
U.S. Tax Compliance
We can prepare any U.S. corporate and individual federal and state income, franchise, fiduciary and estate tax returns. We can also assist clients in preparing payroll, sales and use and property tax returns.
IRS CIRCULAR 230 REQUIRED NOTICE – PUT THIS AS A SEPARATE LINK, IF CLIENTS WANT TO READ MORE
IRS regulations require that we inform you that to the extent fax or email communications contain any statement regarding federal taxes, that statement was not written or intended to be used, and it cannot be used, by any person (i) for the purpose of avoiding federal tax penalties that may be imposed on that person, or (ii) to promote, market or recommend to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.
Compliance with IRS Circular 230 Notice & Tax regulations
The United States Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have been engaged in an effort to curb abusive tax shelters. As part of this effort, the IRS issued regulations known as IRS Circular 230 that have broad effects on tax-related communications sent by the firm to clients, including those communications relating to federal income tax planning techniques.
The new rules require us to add certain standard language to many of our letters, memos, e-mails, and other correspondence concerning federal tax matters, unless the advice is in the form of a formal opinion that complies with the requirements of IRS Circular 230.
In order to comply with the requirements of IRS Circular 230, the firm has adopted a policy of generally including language similar to that described in the previous paragraph in all written communications (including e-mails) sent by tax professionals unless the writer specifically determines not to include it. As a result, you may see the disclosure language in e-mails from us that do not discuss any tax issues. The inclusion of the disclosure does not indicate that tax-related penalties would, or could, be asserted.
A practitioner who fails to satisfy the requirement of the new rules risks censure, disbarment and substantial penalties.
In those cases where a client does not want written advice to state that it cannot be used for the purpose of avoiding tax-related penalties, attorneys will often need to provide lengthy opinions which carefully evaluate all potential federal tax issues. These opinions will likely require a time-consuming investigation into the facts underlying the federal tax issues and a substantial amount of research of relevant law to determine whether we can issue such an opinion. Unfortunately, we believe that complying with Circular 230 in providing such tax advice may substantially increase costs to clients.