By the Numbers

Global Tax Policy Sentiment in 2025

Much like Deloitte’s 2024 survey, the firm’s 2025 Global Tax Policy Survey showed that transparency, reporting, and digitization remain top of mind for tax leaders around the world. In addition, sustainability has reportedly risen to a higher priority than international tax reform has, despite ongoing Pillar Two implementation and the… Read more »

2025 State Tax Changes

This year, thirty-nine states made significant changes to their tax codes, effective January 1, continuing a trend of tax reforms to which we’ve become accustomed over the past several years. Changes to the tax code in seven states—Alaska, Connecticut, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania—are highlighted below, and… Read more »

Tax Foundation on Trump’s Tax Proposals

As anticipated, the new US presidential administration, under President Donald Trump, will aim to set in motion a set of policies—some familiar, some not as much—that could greatly affect in-house tax departments. Ahead of the US presidential election, the Tax Foundation broke down Trump’s tax proposals to evaluate the impact… Read more »

KPMG on Tax ‘Reimagined’

Disruption has been the name of the corporate tax game of late. The upcoming 2025 tax cliff, ongoing implementation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s global tax plans, and ceaseless regulatory change—the “tax trifecta,” as KMPG calls it in its recent report, Tax Reimagined 2024: Perspective From the… Read more »

OECD Report Highlights Corporate Tax Rate Stabilization

According to a recent report and accompanying press release from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), statutory corporate tax rates are stabilizing across the globe following a steady period of declining rates. In the OECD’s 2024 edition of Corporate Tax Statistics released in mid-July, average statutory corporate tax… Read more »

Comparing State Tax Systems

The March/April issue of Tax Executive highlighted some of this year’s state-level tax changes, including six states’ reduction of their corporate income tax rates. This issue, Tax Executive is looking to the Tax Foundation once again for insight into how states stack up against one another. Its State Business Tax… Read more »

EY Report: Governance Remains Front and Center Amid Risk and Controversy

In this new era of tax risk and controversy that emerged after a pause in enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic, multinational businesses will need to stand firm with strong and effective tax governance. That’s the sentiment conveyed in EY’s latest report, Why Tax Governance Is Key in an Era of… Read more »

2024 State Corporate Income Tax Changes

Spurred by their emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic with revenue surpluses and a drive to mitigate the effects of inflation, states continue to ride waves of reform in 2024. This year, thirty-four states made changes to their tax codes, effective January 1. As detailed here, six states—Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,… Read more »

Generative AI in Corporate Tax Departments

A recent report by Thomson Reuters highlights the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in legal, corporate, and tax environments. Among findings in related fields, the report, titled “Future of Professionals: ChatGPT and Generative AI in Legal, Corporate & Tax Markets,” explores whether, in particular, corporate tax departments are… Read more »

The Shifting State of US Tax Leadership

In the May 29 edition of Tax Analysts’ Tax Notes International, Tony Santiago, founder and president of TaxSearch Inc., discusses a shift in tax expertise due to the latest wave of leadership turnover and retirements. In this article, Santiago explores and shares strategies for filling job vacancies with younger-generation talent… Read more »