Federal
Part II: GILTI, FDII, and FTC Guidance and International Tax Planning
How to decipher this complex stew, replete with interesting ingredients
Prior to tax reform, multinational businesses often had similar strategies with respect to outbound international tax planning. Given the high U.S. corporate tax rates and worldwide system of taxation, many businesses sought to earn and keep profits offshore to defer U.S. tax. When it was important to repatriate profits, foreign… Read more »
Part I: The Graphic Guide to Section 163(j)
A visual breakdown of this important aspect of the TCJA
As children, we learned new and difficult concepts, such as our first words, by associating them with pictures. Who could forget the Dr. Seuss classic Hop on Pop? In this article, we take you back to your childhood by offering a series of pictures to simplify the most significant aspects… Read more »
FASB’S
Revenue Recognition Standard Takes Center Stage
The Financial Accounting Standard Board’s (FASB) long-anticipated new standard on revenue recognition is clearly one of the most important developments in US GAAP accounting in the last several years. John Hepp, partner in Grant Thornton’s National Professional Standards Group, calls the new revenue standard, issued in May 2014, “the most… Read more »
Creative Approaches to Large-Case Tax Administration
IRS Budgetary Limitations Don’t Deter IRS from Precision, Speed, Transparency Goals
Despite budgetary and resource constraints at the Internal Revenue Service, corporate boards, securities regulators, and even the IRS are pressing to see increased transparency, greater speed, and enhanced precision on the part of large business taxpayers, according to KPMG tax professionals Mike Dolan and Tom Greenaway. Dolan is national director… Read more »
LB&I Audits: Old Lessons, New Approach
Transparency, Collaboration, Fair and Efficient Resolution: No Argument with Goals, but the Devil Is in the Implementation Details
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. That adage is true in all walks of life, but it is particularly appropriate as the IRS prepares to implement its most recent initiative for examinations by the Large Business & International division (LB&I), as described in the draft release of… Read more »
Tax Department of the Future: Reimagining Tax Technology On the first full day of TEI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration,…
The New Era of Transparency: Global Trends and Management Strategies In a particularly engaging session at TEI’s Annual Conference and…
State Tax Policy Takes Center Stage In an informative session on the first day of the…
TEI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration: A Closer Look & An Optimistic Future This past October, we took the opportunity to recognize a…
TEI Bestows President’s Award on Makaris and Wireman, Honorary Membership on Silbiger Two of the highest honors a TEI member can receive…
The Market for Clean Energy Tax Credits Is Booming The Expert: Rob Parker Since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction…