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Tax Credit Investments
The Expert: Paddy O’Brien
Tax credit investments play an important role in strategic planning for tax professionals. We wanted to delve deeper into the crevices of this issue and turned to Paddy O’Brien, vice president of investments at Foss & Co., for answers. Tax Executive’s senior editor, Michael Levin-Epstein, interviewed O’Brien in February. Michael… Read more »
Bloomberg’s 2022 Tax Department Trends
Bloomberg Tax recently released results from its 2022 Corporate Tax Department Benchmark Survey, titled “The Trends Shaping Tomorrow’s Tax Function.” Among the greatest challenges, Bloomberg found, were the perpetual juggling act related to compliance, staffing, and economic uncertainties; worries about risk; cost reduction; expanded involvement in nontax financial issues; understaffing;… Read more »
Continuing Education Calendar
2023 Leadership Foundations Seminar June Virtual Federal Tax Course – Level 1 June 12–16 East Lansing, MI Federal Tax Course – Level 2 July 17–21 Atlanta, GA Annual Meeting of Members August 7–9 Newberg, OR US International Tax Course August 14–18 Atlanta, GA 2023 Annual Conference… Read more »
TEI Submits Comments on Notice 2023-2 and the Stock Repurchase Excise Tax
On March 20, TEI submitted comments in response to a request for comments in Notice 2023-2, which provided guidance on the stock repurchase excise tax. The comments requested carve-outs from the tax for redemptions of nonparticipating, nonconvertible preferred stock and addressed the funding rule and related per se rule that… Read more »
2023 State Tax Changes
Thirty-eight states rang in the new year with significant changes to their tax codes. Most of these state-level changes were spurred by a wave of rate reductions and other tax cuts over the past two years, greater tax competition during a time of greater mobility, and, of course, inflation, according… Read more »
Continuing Education Calendar
2023 Tax Technology Seminar April 24–26 San Diego, CA Leadership Foundations Seminar June Virtual Federal Tax Course – Level 1 June 12–16 East Lansing, MI Federal Tax Course – Level 2 July 17–21 Atlanta, GA Annual Meeting of Members August 6–8 Newberg, OR US International Tax Course August 13–18… Read more »
Acknowledgments
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Dealing With New Schedules K-2 and K-3
On April 30, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service released early drafts of the new Schedules K-2 and K-3 for Forms 1065, 1120-S, and 8865 for tax year 2021. Why did the IRS feel the need to release these new forms, and what do they mean for taxpayers and preparers? To… Read more »
Ranking State Tax Systems
The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index is intended to show how well state tax codes stack up against those of other states, with the goal to provide a road map to improve the system. Each year, the Tax Foundation updates the index and ranks the states. Among the… Read more »
Melissa Smith
When Melissa Smith was in her second year of law school, she thought most students knew what they wanted to do in their budding legal careers. “Some wanted to be litigators, some wanted to be corporate lawyers. Everybody seemed to know, and I had no clue.” But then, she says,… Read more »
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