Departments and Columns

TEI’s Corporate Tax Department Survey: A Few Key Stats

In 2021, TEI launched a comprehensive Corporate Tax Department survey that highlights tax department makeup, budgeting, responsibilities, technology, and more. This survey is meant to enable tax professionals to more effectively benchmark those issues moving forward. TEI conducted similar surveys in 2004–2005 and 2011–2012, and the latest report includes insights… Read more »

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Walter Doggett

A great teacher can often make an epic difference in your life. Just ask Walter Doggett, the executive tax director of E*Trade Financial Corporation and incoming TEI international secretary. While attending the University of Virginia, Doggett took elective tax courses from David LaRue, an experience that greatly influenced his future… Read more »

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Celebrating Our Early 2022 Successes

We’re just a few months into 2022, but already we’ve had some terrific successes I want to tell you about. Midyear Conference First, as you read this, we’re on the verge of holding our second major hybrid event, TEI’s 72nd Midyear Conference, themed Tax Reform Redux—Seizing Opportunities and Mitigating Risks.… Read more »

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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 »

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Hiring Needs
The Expert: Jack Hart

Obtaining and retaining the best talent for your team has been an ongoing battle for hiring managers for many years now, but with the complexity that COVID has brought, accompanied by “the Great Resignation,” this challenge has become even more difficult. Question: How has the pandemic changed hiring, and what… Read more »

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Acknowledgments

TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms sponsoring TEI’s Hybrid 72nd Midyear Conference. 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 Andersen Avalara Baker McKenzie Bloomberg Tax… Read more »

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Lorry Limbourg
EMEA Chapter

Some TEI chapters cover relatively small geographical areas, but others, such as the EMEA Chapter, headed by Lorry Limbourg since July 2021, are vast—spread out over many countries large and small. Limbourg is also the indirect tax director, Europe, for Coca-Cola Services Brussels. Dealing with such a large chapter poses… Read more »

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Transactional Tax Issues Take Center Stage

Let’s face it. Transaction taxes are more important than ever before. In this column, we explore this issue and its impact on technology with Michael Bernard, vice president of tax content strategy and operations and chief tax officer at Vertex, and Sal Visca, chief technology officer at Vertex. Michael Levin-Epstein,… Read more »

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Continuing Education Calendar

2022 72nd Midyear Conference March 20-23 Washington, DC Federal Tax Course – Level 1 April 25-29 East Lansing, MI Tax Technology Seminar May 2-3 San Francisco, CA 77th Annual Conference October 23-26 Scottsdale, AZ  

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Chris Tressler
Detroit Chapter

This is the first in a series of profiles of TEI chapter leaders. Without vibrant chapters and dynamic chapter leaders, we would not be able to provide our members with as many rewarding opportunities and networking connections as they have come to expect from TEI for decades.  Chris Tressler is… Read more »

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