IRS Finds US Trade Or Business For Foreign Fund; IRS Intends To Audit Fund Lending Activities
In Chief Counsel Advice 201501013 (CCA), issued on January 5, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considered whether a fund manager (US Manager) that made loans and acted as a stock underwriter through its US office and as an independent agent on behalf of a foreign fund (Fund) caused the Fund and its foreign feeder (Foreign Feeder) to have a US trade or business under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Code). […]