Featured in The fertile solar crescent – 01-2018

Taxing times

Solar and U.S. tax reform: The solar and wind industries largely dodged the bullet in the process of U.S. tax reform. But there will still be impacts on renewable energy project finance, which are many and complex, and it is hard to say what the final end-market impact will be.

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Christian Roselund

16 Jan 2018

The U.S.’s Base Erosion Anti-abuse Tax, or BEAT, was introduced to deter non-domestic companies from drawing too high a portion of their U.S. earnings from federal taxes. This provision is still being debated in congress.

Five days before Christmas 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the final version of the first major overhaul of the nation’s tax system in 30 years. Two days later, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the bill, the first major legislative victory for a Republican Party that has controlled both houses of Congress and the …

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