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Introduction to Form 5471: Demystifying Reporting for Foreign Entities

INTRODUCTION TO FORM 5471: DEMYSTIFYING REPORTING FOR FOREIGN ENTITIES

Cost Free
Presentation Length 1.0 hour

Recorded DateNovember 21, 2023
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Subject AreaTaxes
Course LevelBasic
Course Description

Are you frustrated by the complex world of international tax laws for your clients with Controlled Foreign Corporations? This course simplifies Form 5471 reporting, ensuring you and your clients stay compliant.

This course is perfect for tax professionals with minimal experience in Form 5471 reporting who wish to enhance their international tax expertise and provide valuable guidance to clients with foreign entities.

After completing this course, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of Form 5471 reporting requirements, identify the correct category filers for your clients' foreign entities, and be able to effectively prepare and submit Form 5471 with confidence. Whether you're an accountant, tax consultant, or advisor, this comprehensive course will equip you with the necessary tools to navigate the complexities of international tax compliance with confidence and precision.

Learning Objectives:


  • Determine how to avoid costly errors and penalties by ensuring accurate Form 5471 compliance

  • Summarize how to effectively complete Form 5471, eliminating risks for IRS penalties

  • Translate and interpret IRS regulations and updates, ensuring up-to-date compliance and reducing audit risks

  • Assemble the necessary skill sets for Form 5471 reporting, building a competitive edge and cultivating trust with clients seeking your international tax expertise

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Lauramtshilumba

Laura is the leader of the international tax practice at HLB Gross Collins. As a CPA with close to two decades of expertise in U.S. international taxation, Laura takes the hassle out of filing U.S. tax returns for American expatriates. She also helps American expatriates and dual U.S. citizens rectify their past due U.S. tax returns with the least amount of pain and on the most favorable terms with the IRS.

Serving clients throughout the world, Laura is committed to helping her clients maximize tax savings strategies in the U.S., while also implementing an aligned global structure for clients with multi-national operations in several industries including but not limited to consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, and technology. 

An educator at heart, Laura is a presenter of NASBA-certified CPE courses on international tax matters -helping tax professionals connect the dots between the tax law and IRS tax forms. 

In her pursuit of becoming a healthy accountant who mentally, spiritually, and physically thrives busy season after busy season, Laura became a certified health mindset coach and a certified integrative health nutrition coach. In 2021, she started her health and wellness business where she coaches executive women and women entrepreneurs to manage their stress levels and prevent burnout from high-pressure work and business environments, by implementing authentic self-care regimens that translate to high performance, greater visibility, leadership opportunities, and increased financial net worth. She also coaches high-achieving women into living in their now body, while improving on their wellness without sacrificing their mental health or their favorite cultural foods. 

About Our Presenter

Lauramtshilumba
Laura has close to 2 decades of experience in public accounting with a focus in international accounting and taxation. She has extensive experience with global mobility, providing tax compliance and consulting services including but not limited to global secondment, global payroll management and consulting, tax equalization, U.S. tax withholding and reporting requirements, and income tax treaty analysis. She collaborates with tax advisors in the United States and abroad to assist them with international tax issues faced by their clients.