TEI recently hired Robert Burman as its new director of membership and chapter engagement. In his role, Burman oversees all aspects of the membership and chapter engagement programs. This includes exploring and developing TEI’s member value proposition, supporting and collaborating with the leadership of Institute chapters and regions, and ensuring… Read more »
A wait-and-see attitude characterizes this year’s global tax landscape, with the emergence of regulations like BEPS Pillar Two marking a pivotal moment. Designed to address base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS Pillar Two proposes a framework to establish a minimum global corporate tax rate. This initiative signifies a concerted effort…
Michelle Schapiro recounts her introduction to TEI more than twenty years ago. “From the time I started with The Cheesecake Factory, my former boss—and my current boss—were very involved with TEI and encouraged me to attend their seminars,” she says. “Since that time, I’ve been actively engaged with the local…
2024 2024 Audits & Appeals Seminar September 10–12 Tysons, VA Federal Tax Course – Level 1 Simulive September 30–November 20 Virtual 79th Annual Conference October 27–30 San Antonio, TX TEI Webinar Series: Ethics CPE for Tax Professionals December 10–12 Virtual Tax Technology Webinar Essentials December 16–19 Virtual 2025 International… Read more »
On May 20, TEI’s Cleveland Chapter honored Larry Boron, who recently retired as head of tax at Sherwin-Williams. He has been a member of TEI since 1997 and served in numerous chapter roles, including chapter president and chair of the chapter’s International Tax Committee. Boron has been a staunch supporter…
As artificial intelligence (AI) gains traction throughout the business world, tax is in the thick of it, aiming to take advantage of AI’s benefits while navigating the attendant complexities. At TEI’s Tax Technology Seminar held this spring in Orlando, one session spoke to those issues at length—an engaging conversation and…
Internal Revenue Service Notice 2023-80 (hereinafter “the notice”) provides the US government’s view on the foreign tax credit treatment of Pillar Two top-up taxes and makes a clear distinction between qualified domestic minimum top-up tax (QDMTT) and the extra-jurisdictional top-up taxes imposed by an income inclusion regime (IIR) and the…
TEI Region 10 held its forty-fourth Annual Conference May 22–24 at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort & Club in Dana Point, California. The three days of educational sessions kicked off with a discussion of current tax policy, including the possibility of tax legislation on Capitol Hill, the OECD Pillars…
TEI Region 1 held its fifty-sixth Annual Conference May 3–5 in Ottawa. Mark Caluori, Jun Ping, and Steve Saunders planned the conference, and incoming TEI International President Josie Scalia delivered opening remarks. The program included many notable speakers, including the Honorable Marc Noël, KC, partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt…
On May 9, Regions 6 and 7 held their annual liaison meeting with the Internal Revenue Service in Chicago. Larry Pociask, Cathy Stevens, Angela Schlemmer, Sara Zelazny, Meredith Menden, and Ryan Gibbons moderated sessions with IRS speakers on LB&I compliance priorities, the research credit, the Taxpayer Advocate Service, transfer pricing,…
