Company: PRGO
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001585364-25-000122
Chunk: 238

Company: PERRIGO Co plc
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 15
Chunk 238
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 U.S. federal tax purposes. On May 5, 2023, we finalized an agreement resulting in settlement of the May 7, 2020 NOPA. In fiscal year 2023 we adjusted our previously established reserves related to this matter. On March 28, 2024, we received a Notice of Assessment and on April 10, 2024 we made the settlement payment.On December 2, 2021, the IRS commenced an audit of our federal income tax returns for the tax years ended December 31, 2015, through December 31, 2019, which remains ongoing. On March 12, 2025, the IRS issued a NOPA to reduce Perrigo U.S.’s deductible interest expense for the 2015 through 2018 tax years by $348.2 million, using the same interest rates that we agreed with IRS Appeals for the 2014 and 2015 tax years, and a Closing Agreement is pending that, once fully executed, will resolve this issue with finality. We previously adjusted our reserves using such interest rates and, as a result, we are fully reserved for the adjustments specified in the NOPA. Internal Revenue Service Audit of Athena Neurosciences, LLC, a U.S. Subsidiary    On December 22, 2016, we received a NOPA for the year ended December 31, 2011, denying the deductibility of settlement costs incurred in 2011 by Athena's parent company Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("EPI") related to illegal marketing of Zonegran by EPI's employees in the United States raised in a Qui Tam action under the U.S. False Claims Act. We strongly disagreed with the IRS' position on this issue. Because we believed that any concession on this issue in Appeals would be contrary to our evaluation of the issue and to avoid double taxation of the same income in the United States and Ireland, we pursued our remedies under the Mutual Agreement Procedure ("MAP") of the U.S. - Ireland Income Tax Treaty. On October 20, 2020, we requested Competent Authority assistance and the request was accepted. On April 14, 2025, we received a MAP Closing Letter from the IRS Office of Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement advising that the U.S. and Ireland Competent Authorities reached a mutual agreement regarding the competent authority request filed by Athena. This mutual agreement is a favorable resolution of this matter and had an immaterial impact on our financial statements.Although