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Acknowledgments

TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms that sponsored TEI’s Hybrid 76th Annual 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… Read more »

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How Automating Compliance Can Help Taxpayers in Turbulent Times

In recent years enormous numbers of legislative changes to tax policy at the local, state, and international levels have dramatically affected the corporate tax function. We wanted to learn more about how automation and technology could help taxpayers deal with these changes, so we sat down with a true expert… Read more »

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Embracing the Certainty of Change

Wow! We’ve just returned from our 76th Annual Conference at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in Florida. What a special meeting! Actually, our Annual Conferences are all special, but perhaps none more so than this one—our first fully hybrid Annual Conference with hundreds of members participating virtually or in… Read more »

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Marji Gordon-Brown

When Marji Gordon-Brown was in law school, she needed an elective. Having majored in accounting as an undergraduate, she thought that taking a somewhat numbers-oriented class would not be too difficult. In that elective, Gordon-Brown says, “I had a wonderful professor, Linda Galler, who was a new, young, energetic teacher.… Read more »

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Peter Waterstreet

When Peter Waterstreet opted for an accelerated master of accountancy program, he made a critical decision: he chose the tax stem over the professional accounting and information systems stems. In making that choice, he was influenced by business law and introductory tax classes that were part of the undergraduate accounting… Read more »

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The Rise of Remote Work

According to Global Workplace Analytics, since 2009 the number of Americans who work from home has risen by 159 percent. In just the past five years, remote work has grown forty-four percent globally. Add to that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s easy to posit that remote work… Read more »

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Setting Goals

It is truly an honor to serve the members of the Institute and now to be elected your 2021–2022 TEI international president. Being international president does not just get you an extra cookie during conference breaks (although that would be nice) but something much more important—a chance to interact with… Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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