Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held, in Xilinx, Inc. Comm r WL C. This decision is a major victory for the Internal Revenue Service as it has significant ramifications for multinational taxpayers, especially those taxpayers involved in high technology or similar businesses that have substantial operations conducted through foreign subsidiaries. Related companies are required to allocate certain costs and income among themselves for U. The general test is that costs and income needed to be allocated consistent with an arm s-length standard in other words, costs and income are to be shared among related parties in a manner consistent with how independent, unrelated parties would have shared such costs and income. With respect to the development of intellectual property, many businesses, as a matter of practice, did not allocate to non-u. Reallocation of a portion of these expenses to a foreign subsidiary would reduce New York Washington, D. Los Angeles Palo Alto London Paris Frankfurt Tokyo Hong Kong Beijing Melbourne Sydney. While the deductions would be allocable to the foreign subsidiary, any benefit from these deductions would generally be deferred until the related income is repatriated to the U. Although the applicable regulations were amended in to require reallocation of stock-based compensation expenses to offshore subsidiaries on a prospective basis, many companies are involved in ongoing transfer pricing disputes with the Internal Revenue Service for pre tax years and the Xilinx opinion would appear to have a direct impact on their disputes. Xilinx has potentially a far-reaching impact as the decision upholds the Internal Revenue Service s broad discretion to issue transfer pricing regulations deviating from the arm s-length standard, a standard that had generally been thought by practitioners to be the principal standard for the application of Code Section see below for a description of Code Section Moreover, the arm s-length standard is the international standard for transfer pricing adjustments, and thus Xilinx essentially rejects the international standard for transfer pricing adjustments in favor of a purely domestic U. Cost Sharing Regulations Under Code Section Code Section authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to adjust and allocate income, deductions and other tax items among related parties in order to prevent tax evasion or to reflect the proper allocation of income among them. The regulations promulgated under Code Section generally require related party transactions and arrangements to conform to an arm s-length standard and allow the Internal Revenue Service to adjust the allocation of income and deductions accordingly. Under the relevant Treasury Regulations, the Internal Revenue Service would adjust taxable income and other items with respect to a qualified cost sharing arrangement relating to the development of intangibles only to the extent necessary to make each participant s share of the costs of intangible development equal to such participant s share of reasonably anticipated benefits attributable to the development. A participant s cost for this purpose includes all of the costs incurred by that participant related to the development of intangibles, plus all of the cost sharing payments it makes to other participants including unrelated 1 In this context, it should be noted that sinceCode Section a has included a provision authorizing a specific allocation method not necessarily the arm s-length standard for income with respect to a transfer or license of intangible property. Inthe Treasury Department amended these regulations to provide that stock-based compensation must be taken into account as a cost of developing intangibles subject to transfer pricing adjustment under these rules. The question that was before the court in Xilinx, however, is the treatment of expenses attributable to ESOs under the rules as they were in effect from toprior to amendment. The Tax Court Decision In Xilinx v. Comm r T. The taxpayer established Xilinx Ireland XI in as an unlimited liability company under Irish law as a subsidiary of two Irish subsidiaries wholly owned by the taxpayer. Inthe taxpayer and XI entered into a cost sharing agreement providing joint ownership of any new technology developed by either XI or the taxpayer. This agreement did not specifically address whether expenses attributable to ESOs issued by the taxpayer were among the costs to be shared under the agreement. Inthe taxpayer and XI entered into two agreements that allowed XI employees to acquire options for the taxpayer s stock and provided that XI would pay the taxpayer for the cost of the exercise of the stock options, equal to the spread between the stock s market price on the exercise date and the exercise price. XI made such payments to the taxpayer in the tax years in question from to The ESOs issued by the taxpayer during the relevant tax years consisted of incentive stock options ISOsnonstatutory stock options NSOsand employee stock purchase plan shares ESPPs. An employee is generally taxed on the spread between the fair market value and the exercise price of NSOs on exercise but is only taxed on ISOs and ESPPs if the employee sells the stock acquired before a specified waiting period has expired a disqualifying disposition. Employers such as the taxpayer receive a corresponding deduction when the employee recognizes income. Accordingly, from tothe taxpayer claimed deductions for amounts attributable to its employees exercises of NSOs and disqualifying dispositions of ISOs and ESPPs. In addition, the taxpayer took these amounts in account in determining its qualified expenses for the purpose of determining the credit for research and development expenses. The Internal Revenue Service issued notices of deficiency for these tax years, disallowing the taxpayer s deductions for its employees exercises of NSOs and disqualifying dispositions of ISOs and ESPPs and imposing accuracy-related penalties. By shifting a portion of these While the deductions would be allocable to the foreign subsidiary, any benefit from these deductions would generally be deferred until XI s related income is repatriated to the U. The taxpayer challenged the Internal Revenue Service in the Tax Court on the grounds that the ESO expenses in question were not costs for this purpose. The Tax Court ruled in favor of the taxpayer. The Tax Court found the arm s-length standard was controlling, and thus, according to the Tax Court s analysis, ESO costs would be subject to transfer pricing only if unrelated companies under an arm slength standard would share such costs. The Tax Court found that unrelated companies under an arm slength standard would not share such costs this finding was based on evidence and testimony from experts that, in practice, unrelated companies do not explicitly share costs attributable to ESOs and, further, would not implicitly share such costs as the valuation of this cost i. The Internal Revenue Service also conceded that unrelated parties would not share ESOrelated costs. Accordingly, the Tax Court concluded that the Internal Revenue Service s determination was arbitrary and capricious because it subjected the costs associated with the ESOs to the cost sharing agreement even though two unrelated companies under an arm s-length standard would not share such costs. THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION The question before the Court of Appeals was whether, under Treasury Regulations as in effect during the tax years in questionrelated companies are required to include the cost of ESOs i. Inconsistency of Regulatory Provisions Both the majority and the dissent in the Court of Appeals were in agreement that the regulatory provision requiring the arm s-length standard to be applied in every case was inconsistent and irreconcilable with the regulatory provision that required related parties to share all costs of intangible development in proportion to their share of reasonably anticipated benefits from such development the all-costs requirement. The majority resolved the inconsistency by concluding that the bright-line rule under the all-costs requirement addressed a particular type of related party transaction intangible product The dissent took a strong view against this position and instead argued that the regulations should be interpreted in light of, and consistently with, the underlying purposes of the regulations and, more significantly, the Ireland-U. Tax Treaty and the Treasury Department s Technical Explanation thereof, which referred to the arm s-length standard as the only relevant standard for transfer pricing purposes. In reaching its determination, the majority rejected attempts by the taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service to reconcile the two regulatory provisions by concluding that the plain language of the regulations precluded either i reading an implicit arm s-length requirement into the all-costs requirement as the taxpayer suggested or ii reading the all-costs requirement as automatically conforming to the arm slength standard as the Internal Revenue Service suggested. Consistency with Saving Clause of Ireland-U. Tax Treaty The majority further held that the all-costs requirement did not violate the Ireland-U. According to the majority decision, although the treaty designates the arm s-length standard as the appropriate standard for determining whether related party transactions would be subject to transfer pricing adjustments, the treaty s saving clause reserves the ability of a state to apply its domestic laws to its own citizens and residents even if such laws conflict with the treaty. Accordingly, the majority concluded that, notwithstanding that the all-costs requirement conflicts with the treaty s arm s-length standard, the treaty was not violated in this case because the United States was taxing its own resident in conformity with the treaty s saving clause. The Court of Appeals remanded to the Tax Court for further proceedings on the narrow question of determining whether the Internal Revenue Service s allocation accurately options ESO costs attributable to the joint development of intangibles, and directed the Transfer Court to take into account how much of their time employees receiving ESOs spent on tasks relevant to the joint development of intangibles. Penalties The Court of Appeals also directed that the Tax Court consider on remand whether it was appropriate to impose accuracy-related penalties in this case, suggesting that it may not be fair to impose penalties on a taxpayer for failure to follow a law that the government later found necessary to clarify through the subsequent promulgation of new regulations. The information contained in this publication should not be construed as legal advice. 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