Intellectual Property
Apr. 21, 2017
Protecting IP from taxes is tougher than you think
It's harder than it used to be for startup technology companies to avoid taxes on their intellectual property. By Mary F. Voce and Pallav Raghuvanshi
Mary F. Voce
Mary F. Voce is a shareholder in the tax department of Greenberg Traurig LLP's New York office
When the owners of a development-stage technology company foresee the prospect of meaningful revenues, their creative focus almost invariably turns to how they can avoid or defer U.S. tax on their upcoming profits. Easy, right? Tax havens with no taxes and nice beaches immediately come to mind along with a dim recollection of articles reporting multinationals paying virtually no U.S. taxes on thei...
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