Author: Tax Executive Staff

Midyear Conference Makes an Impression

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TEI’s 74th Midyear Conference featured a full panoply of sessions focused on the latest developments covering all practice areas that affect in-house tax practitioners—including multiple sessions featuring government speakers from the Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury Department. A notable session highlight was a special fireside chat discussion featuring… Read more »

TEI Intensifies Direct Engagement With Tax

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One of the many benefits of active engagement in TEI’s advocacy activities is the potential to meet face-to-face with tax authority decision-makers to discuss issues important to TEI and its members’ companies. These important meetings help shape tax policy and administration in the United States and worldwide, strengthen TEI’s relationship… Read more »

TEI Bestows President’s Award on Evan Ernest and Honorary Membership on James Silvestri

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Two of the highest honors a TEI member can receive are the Institute’s President’s Award and honorary membership. At the 2024 Midyear Conference in Washington, D.C., in March, TEI gave the President’s Award to Evan Ernest and honorary membership to Jim Silvestri. Here’s a brief summary of the impressive careers… Read more »

Acknowledgments

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TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors. Their financial support enables TEI to maintain a rich program of value-added education, networking, and advocacy activities for the in-house tax community. Exclusive Affinity Partner Thomson Reuters Platinum ADP Inc. Andersen Bloomberg Tax & Accounting CAC Specialty Crowe LLP CSC Corptax Deloitte… Read more »

The Market for Clean Energy Tax Credits Is Booming

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The Expert: Rob Parker Since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, private companies have announced over $628 billion in commitments to American industries like clean energy manufacturing, electric vehicles, and clean power. The economic research firm Rhodium Group reports that clean energy investments in the twelve… Read more »

The SALT Team of the Future
An income tax perspective on the evolution of work environments

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To respond to rapidly changing state and local tax (SALT) developments, this article envisions how a well-balanced SALT team can serve the needs of a large multistate business. It is instructive to look at how things, from a tax perspective, used to run in office settings back in the day,…

Gorka Echevarria

When Gorka Echevarria made the move to Lexmark in 2018, he realized an exciting opportunity to oversee the entire indirect tax function of the corporation. “The prospect of steering a significant transformation within the department, including the enhancement of tools and processes, was particularly appealing,” he says. As the global… Read more »

VAT in the Digital Age
What's happening now—and what's coming—in the EU

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On December 8, the European Commission proposed the VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) package, arguably the most revolutionary reform concerning the value-added tax (VAT) in the European Union in recent years. The ViDA package includes a proposal to amend the European Union’s Council Directive 2006/112/EC, Regulation 904/2010, and Implementing…

Midyear Jammin’

TEI continues to deliver marquee events for the in-house tax community, and it wouldn’t be possible without the outstanding contributors—speakers, panels, sponsors, staff, and many others—who again set the stage for an outstanding 74th Midyear Conference. Don’t miss out on the Institute’s 79th Annual Conference, October 27–30, at the beautiful… Read more »

TEI Roundtable No. 46: My Tax Journey, Part One
Tax professionals share insights into their unique journeys and roles

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  No two journeys toward a career in tax are the same. Just ask the panelists from TEI’s My Tax Journey session at the Annual Conference last fall. For this issue’s Roundtable, we reconvened the panelists to gather more of their perspectives. They are Josephine Scalia, head of tax at…