ESG Tax Transparency
You might want to check out BRT’s statement signed by 181 CEOs
In years gone by, business looked primarily to increasing shareholder returns, paying less attention to how their business practices affected the environment and society. For many, the primary concern in supply chain design was cost, with little inquiry into how supply chain partners conducted business. But more and more, such…
Jump-Starting Tax Automation, With Practical Tips to Sustain Momentum
Tax needs automation now more than ever—and fast
Tax functions have pursued automation and efficiency for a long time. Enterprise financial and management reporting systems are not designed to produce tax outputs such as tax provisions, tax returns, and other key tax deliverables, but instead provide the source financial data required to prepare the tax calculations—and that is…
ADP’s Tax and Technology Director Talks Tax Credits, Tools, and Technologies
In this issue’s Tax Tech Corner, senior editor Michael Levin-Epstein interviews Ewa Cater, ADP’s tax and technology director. For the last fourteen years, Cater has worked with tax credits and business incentives and figured out how to close the gaps between better tax tools and technologies and tax operations. She… Read more »
Planning for People Within Your Technology Road Map
What path are you taking?
A road map lays out the path to get from where you are today to where you want to be in the future. In technology settings, the term is often used to conceptualize the work that needs to be completed for a technology solution to be ready for use. However,…
TEI’s 76th Annual Conference Goes Hybrid!
After hosting the 75th Annual Conference virtually due to COVID-19, TEI is offering the best of both worlds for the 76th Annual Conference, now scheduled for October 24–27, 2021, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in Florida. The Institute is excited to offer members the opportunity to meet in… Read more »
Emerging Leader: Jennifer Bowers
When Jennifer Bowers was in eighth grade, her math teacher had students complete US tax returns for a variety of taxpayers using Forms 1040-EZ, 1040-A, and 1040. “The examples were simple,” she says, “but I remember thinking I could do that and determined I would need to become a CPA.… Read more »
Acknowledgments
TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms that sponsored TEI’s Virtual Midyear Conference. Their financial support enables TEI to maintain a rich program of value-added education, networking, and advocacy activitiesfor the in-house tax community. Exclusive Affinity Partner Thomson Reuters Platinum ADP Andersen Avalara CertCapture Inc. Baker McKenzie Bloomberg… Read more »
A Rise in E-Commerce Puts Pressure on Tax and IT
Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce activity around the globe has skyrocketed over the past year. The rise in online selling brings with it added processing of sales tax. As a result, tax and IT teams and their enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transactional systems have been put to the… Read more »
TEI Roundtable No. 36: The Total Transformation of the Tax Function
Technology—ERP, AI, robotics, and much, much more—is leading the way
Clearly, the corporate tax function has been transforming dramatically in the last decade as new technology has emerged at an accelerated pace. But we’ve been so busy keeping up with the evolving transformation, do we know exactly how it’s actually been changed? To get a handle on that thorny issue,…
High Priority: Tax Technology Implementation
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2020 Corporate Tax Departments Survey: New Technology Demands New Skills & New Attitudes, the role of the tax technologist is increasingly important, and tax departments need to decide whether to teach technology to tax professionals or hire technologists who can be taught about tax. On top… Read more »
Optimizing Your Tax and IT Stack Tax leaders, tax technologists, chief financial officers (CFOs), and chief…
An Overview of the EU Public Country-by-Country Reporting Rules The European Union (EU) has long been at the forefront…
Optimizing Tax Through Structured Data Storage and Data Pipelines In today’s fast-paced digital business environment, tax departments are under…
Renewable Energy Tax Credits After the Inflation Reduction Act Following the the 2024 US general election, with Donald Trump’s…
TEI Roundtable No. 49: A Look at the TCJA in 2025 Editor’s note. This conversation was recorded in August, prior to…
Inequitable Barriers to Equitable Apportionment Every state that imposes a corporate income tax requires multistate…