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Acknowledgments

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Prepping for Year-End: Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The Expert: Jennifer Crawford

As year-end approaches, tax departments can already sense the year-end process looming. With limited time to get year-end financials released while maintaining a robust tax control process, it is critical that the tax department prepares well in advance. We reached out to Jennifer Crawford, director at Baker Tilly, to gain… Read more »

US Election Results Offer Clarity on What May Be Coming

With presidential and congressional victories in the recent US general election, Republicans will be working to enact President-elect Donald Trump’s tax policy priorities. Below is a list of those policy positions that pertain to in-house tax professionals and their businesses. These were sourced from the Tax Foundation’s article, “Donald Trump… Read more »

Optimizing Your Tax and IT Stack
Tax technology road maps should address stakeholder relationships, tax talent, and risk management

Tax leaders, tax technologists, chief financial officers (CFOs), and chief information officers (CIOs) often ask, How should we upgrade our tax technology? Our response may sound surprising, given that our company is in the business of selling tax software services, but here it is: You will always be in a… Read more »

Laura Lu

When Laura Lu was just fourteen years old, she left her home in Shanghai, China, to attend high school at the Emma Willard School in upstate New York. “It was genuinely one of the best experiences I’ve had,” she says. “It was a very small community. There were about 100… Read more »

Continuing Education Calendar

2024 TEI Webinar Series: Ethics CPE for Tax Professionals December 9–12 Virtual Tax Technology Webinar Essentials December 16–19 Virtual 2025 International Course Simulive January 6–February 27 Virtual 76th Midyear Conference March 16–19 Washington, DC Tax Technology Seminar May 5–7 Seattle, WA Federal Tax Course – Level 1 May 19–23 Atlanta,… Read more »

Chris Anderson
Silicon Valley Chapter

Chris Anderson has been involved in TEI for ten years and has, in the last several years, stepped up in leadership. Right now, Anderson is vice president of the Silicon Valley Chapter, and next year he will serve as president. In addition to his local chapter duties, he is also… 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 »

Reflecting—and Facing Forward

As we reach the end of the calendar year, I’m filled with gratitude and optimism. We have just wrapped up our incredible 79th Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas—what an incredible way to celebrate how far we’ve come as a community and how much TEI continues to grow. I know… 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 »