Sandra McGill focuses her practice on international tax planning. Sandra works with US and non-US multinational companies, public and private as well as high net worth individuals and family businesses. Sandra has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of cross-border tax issues, including the following:
- Foreign tax credit planning
- Subpart F and PFIC anti-deferral rules
- Source of income and withholding tax issues and compliance, including obtaining Treaty relief
- Foreign currency recognition rules under Sections 985-989
- US trade or business or local country permanent establishment (PE) issues
- Section 367 and other subchapter C issues related to cross-border restructurings, acquisitions and financings, including issues with respect to intellectual property
Sandra works with an extensive network of non-US lawyers on developing multi-jurisdictional business structures such as centralized sales and services and finance company structures.
Sandra is a co-founder of Tax in the City®: A Tax Roundtable, which consists of tax professionals who meet regularly to discuss substantive tax issues in a confidential setting.
- International Tax Review, World Tax, 2016-2026
- The Legal 500, International Tax
- Member of Chicago Finance Exchange
- Founding member of Tax in the City: A Tax Roundtable
- University of Michigan Law School, JD
- University of Kansas, BS, magna cum laude
- Illinois
- English
- French
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