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Xueshu ("Shae") Qian

Xueshu (“Shae”) Qian is special counsel in the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Her practice centers on tax planning, with particular depth in international tax, including the NCTI (formerly GILTI) and FDDEI (formerly FDII) regimes, foreign tax credit matters, U.S. minimum-tax regimes, and cross-border restructurings for inbound and outbound taxpayers. She helps clients model and optimize outcomes under various U.S. international tax provisions, navigating controversies involving the application of those rules, prepare comment letters on Treasury and IRS regulations, and secure closing agreements with the IRS.

On December 16, 2019, the Treasury and the IRS released final regulations under section 871(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.  The regulations finalize the 2017 temporary and proposed section 871(m) regulations without any substantive change.  On the same day, the Treasury and the IRS released Notice 2020-2 to extend through 2022 the relief provided in Notice 2018-72.
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