9th Annual IBA Finance & Capital Markets Tax Conference

20 Jan - 21 Jan 2020

Session information

Financing and structuring cross-border real estate

Description

• Taxation on gains and disposition in Canada • Withholding tax on rental income in Canada • Insertion of a Canadian blocker or s.216 election • Use of Canadian REIT to own USA real estate • Interest deductions and thin capitalisation rules in Canada • Gain taxation on transfer of shares in real estate companies • Real estate security and taxation of interest • New rules regarding real estate transfer tax (RETT) blocker structures in Germany • Use of Luxembourg for real estate investments in France, Germany and the UK (Luxembourg) • Interest deduction limitation rules in Luxembourg • Treatment of dividends and gains on investments by foreign funds for real estate investments in Spain • Real estate investments through regular companies in Spain • Real estate investments through REIT (SOCIMI) in Spain • Limitations on deducibility of interest in Spain • Shares versus asset acquisitions: tax issues in Spain • Commercial real estate investment post-Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in the USA • Current income and withholding taxes on ownership and operation in the USA • Trade of business election in the USA • Interest limitation election in the USA • Branch profits and branch interest in the USA • Taxation of gains for foreign investment in property in the USA • Exemptions for qualifies foreign pension plans in the USA • Domestically controlled REITs in the USA • Ameliorating gains – interest and loss carry overs in the USA

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

David Jervis Eversheds Sutherland LLP, London, England

Speakers

Albert Collado Garrigues, Madrid, Spain
Dr Michaela Engel Noerr, Munich, Germany
David Hardy McDermott Will and Emery, New York, New York, USA; Treasurer, IBA Foundation
Antti Lehtimaja Krogerus, Helsinki, Finland
Barbara Worndl Aird & Berlis LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rutger Zaal AKD , Luxembourg City, Luxembourg