Departments and Columns
Elevating Examination Concerns Within the New LB&I
The Expert: Rosemary Sereti
For contentious U.S. federal tax issues, tax controversy management tends to follow a horizontal path from examination to appeals and finally litigation. The likelihood of being embroiled in a contentious issue increased recently as the Internal Revenue Service’s Large Business & International (LB&I) Division announced another round of campaigns. Campaign… Read more »
Hold on Tight—It’s 2018!
As we closed out 2017, there was no shortage of apprehension, uncertainty, and stress around the tax world, as Congress and the White House sought to complete work on far-reaching tax legislation. To be sure, the sausage-grinding exercise that passed for tax reform bore little resemblance to the order and… Read more »
Audit on the Rise: Accessing Data Across Jurisdictions Essential Post-BEPS
The Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting (BEPS) set by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is creating a high-stakes audit environment for multinational enterprises. With jurisdictions around the world enacting legislation to boost transparency and end corporate tax avoidance, a lack of data accessibility across jurisdictions… Read more »
States Embrace Broader Rules for Taxing E-Commerce Income
The state corporate income tax implications of e-commerce are largely uncertain for multistate corporations making sales without a physical footprint. “Pure” e-commerce transactions constitute an ever-growing segment of the economy and include, for example, sales of cloud computing services; access to streaming content; music, video, and software downloads; online educational… Read more »
TEI Website and Community Manager Lorelei Bassi on TEI Connect
TEI has launched TEI Connect to provide a user-friendly platform for its members. To find out more about this uber-practical online tool, we interviewed Lorelei Bassi, TEI’s website and community manager. Q. What is TEI Connect? A. TEI Connect is TEI’s newly launched community system, designed to be a user-friendly… Read more »
Delivering on Our Promise: Merci Beaucoup, Toronto
By design, there is something for everyone at a TEI Annual Conference. The reason is that TEI is committed to serving the entire in-house tax professional community and, at our conferences, we have the opportunity to deliver on that commitment. If all attendees can bring back actionable insights relevant to… Read more »
Acknowledgments
TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms that sponsored TEI’s 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. Platinum Thomson Reuters (TEI’s Exclusive Affinity Partner) Andersen Tax Baker & McKenzie LLP Bloomberg… Read more »
Catherine Gallagher
Catherine (Cathy) Gallagher is vice president of tax and human resources at Connell Limited Partnership, a privately owned holding company comprising primarily flow-through entities. So which area of corporate tax does she find most interesting? Structuring acquisitions and dispositions to be tax efficient. As Gallagher explains, “At Connell Limited Partnership,… Read more »
TEI Comes to Argentina
More than one hundred in-house tax professionals gathered at the Faena Hotel in Buenos Aires to participate in the inaugural event in Argentina of TEI’s Latin America Chapter. Participants welcomed Latin America Chapter President Lionel Nobre (Dell Inc.) and Institute Executive Director Eli J. Dicker to share the history of… Read more »
Service and Duty to Our Profession
Being an in-house tax professional means service to our employers and to the system of taxation of which we are a part. We are duty-bound to add value, skill, and competence to both, yet how we choose to fulfill those obligations is a matter of personal choice. For me, joining… Read more »
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An Exciting Year Ahead It is a great honor for me to serve as…