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Data Analytics for Tax: A Primer

Big data is one of the most important advances the business and consumer sectors have seen since the dawn of the internet. But what does big data mean for tax? What doors can it open? Although some skepticism is healthy every time marketers and media outlets trumpet a new, seemingly… Read more »

Practical Implications of New Partnership Audit Rules
The Experts: Michael Hauswirth, Todd McArthur, and Adam Feuerstein

Ignore the new partnership audit rules at your own peril. Absent an election of earlier application, they take effect for tax years beginning in 2018. Under the new rules, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) generally will collect tax at the partnership level on adjusted partnership items at the highest corporate… Read more »

TEI’s 71st Annual Conference— Examining Tax Transparency

Checking in Ahead of Year-End

It’s almost year-end. No, not that year-end! The one that’s focused on family and friends, sumptuous meals, storytelling, and kids home from school. Yes, it’s almost holiday time, when we take stock of our progress, express thanks for our blessings and accomplishments, and hope for the same in the coming… Read more »

Mitch Frank

For some corporate tax practitioners, interest in tax issues begins with their first job in the financial area; for others it’s law school; still others, college. But for Mitch Frank, general director, taxes, at BNSF Railway Inc., it began in high school. “I took a bookkeeping course that included reference… Read more »

The Intersection of Customs and Tax Disciplines: Which Tail, Which Dog?

In determining “which tail, which dog” controls the intersection of the customs and tax disciplines, we must first define what we mean by “tax.” If we refer to tax in the broadest sense, to include all forms of tax levies, both direct and indirect, then there is no intersection at… Read more »

Tax Reformers Consider Cash Flow Business Taxes, VATs, and Integration
The Expert: Harry L. (Hank) Gutman

In the last Congress, tax reformers considered cash flow business taxes, VATs, and integration as part of potential business tax reform. What’s the Outlook for Congressional Tax Reform? The second session of the last Congress saw some positive developments in the seemingly never- ending quest for business income tax reform.… Read more »

Access Granted: The Campaign

When TEI Past President Sandy Macfarlane assumed his post a little more than a year ago, he introduced his plan Building for the Future. Part of the plan involved engaging with emerging leaders in TEI and expanding access to new members. This strategic endeavor, continuing its progress under new TEI… Read more »

Emerging Leader: Wayne Hamilton

When Wayne Hamilton was in his second year of law school at North Carolina Central University Law School in Durham, North Carolina, he took two business tax classes. “I instantly knew I had found my niche as I realized that tax impacted every aspect of life—business or personal—in some respect,”… Read more »

Reporting for Duty and Honored to Serve

Leading the preeminent association of in-house tax professionals represents the ultimate combination of service and duty to our peers and profession and, for me, is a capstone to my thirty-plus-year career as a tax professional. As I rose through the Institute’s leadership queue, I regularly thought about how, when my… Read more »

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