Advocacy Agenda

DCLs, DPLs, SREs Under Section 174, and More

TEI’s advocacy is one of the prime benefits of membership. By participating in the Institute’s advocacy efforts, you can help make the corporate tax system—in the United States and around the world—more efficient and less burdensome. Below are a few examples of TEI’s advocacy over the past several months. At… Read more »

TEI Intensifies Direct Engagement With Tax

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 Focuses on Impact of CAMT

Since this column last appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Tax Executive, the major news has been the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Joe Biden signed into law on August 16. As TEI members are by now well aware, the IRA included two major “revenue… Read more »

TEI Weighs In on the Build Back Better Act’s Corporate and International Tax Reform Proposals

Welcome to the latest installment of Advocacy Agenda, a periodic column in which I share select insights and observations of interest to TEI members about the tax policy advocacy environment in Washington, D.C. My last column, in the July/August 2021 issue of Tax Executive, attempted to set the scene for… Read more »

TEI Issues Guideposts for Tax Policy in 117th Congress

Welcome to the latest installment of Advocacy Agenda, a periodic column that aims to share select insights and observations of interest to TEI members about the tax policy advocacy environment in Washington, D.C. Over the past three years, the historic tax reforms enacted in Public Law 115-97, colloquially known as… Read more »

Advocacy Work Continues on US Federal, State and Local, Canadian, and International Tax Issues

TEI’s standing committees continue their excellent advocacy work across the globe. Copies of TEI’s submissions can be found at www.tei.org/advocacy. To get involved in TEI’s advocacy efforts, please reach out to our committee chairs or any member of TEI’s legal staff. Canadian Tax Liaison Meetings With Canada Revenue Agency and… Read more »

Bonus Depreciation—A Case Study in TEI Advocacy

Welcome to another installment of Advocacy Agenda, a periodic column that aims to share select insights and observations of interest to TEI members about the post-tax reform advocacy environment in Washington, D.C. The historic tax reforms enacted in Public Law 115-97, colloquially known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act… Read more »

Getting Involved After the TCJA

Welcome to the first installment of a new (periodic) column in Tax Executive, through which I aim to share select insights and observations of interest to TEI members regarding the post–tax reform advocacy environment in Washington, D.C. The historic tax reforms enacted in Public Law 115-97, colloquially known as the… Read more »