Happy new year! And speaking of 2023, I’m happy to announce that registration is open for several significant events. 2023 Mergers & Acquisition Seminar, Nashville, February 6–7: We’re excited to offer this seminar for the first time since the start of the pandemic. This meeting will survey mergers and acquisitions… Read more »
Since this column last appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Tax Executive, the major news has been the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Joe Biden signed into law on August 16. As TEI members are by now well aware, the IRA included two major “revenue… Read more »
At TEI’s 77th Annual Conference this past October, one standout session, “A Tax Family Feud: An Interactive Discussion of Tax Department Challenges and Opportunities,” featured an all-star panel comprising Jack Hart, director at Brewer Morris; Satnam Singh, chief product officer, tax and trade, at Thomson Reuters; Jeffrey Friedman, partner at… Read more »
We are excited to announce that three new staff members have joined TEI, bringing our total staff to sixteen full-time professionals. Judi Raigns Judi Raigns joined TEI in November as TEI’s new AMS administrator and data analyst. Raigns leads efforts to form data governance standards and serves as the central… Read more »
On December 6–7, members of TEI’s Canadian Commodity Tax Committee and TEI’s Canadian Income Tax Committee met with representatives from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Department of Finance Canada to conduct their annual liaison meetings. The 2022 meetings featured robust agendas covering a range of tax law, policy,… Read more »
At TEI’s 77th Annual Conference, the Institute presented awards to three key members in the TEI family: Debbie Giesey, Judy Zelisko, and Paul O’Connor. Debbie Giesey TEI presented the Distinguished Service Award to Debbie Giesey, TEI’s director of administration, who retired in October 2022. The award recognizes outstanding service to… Read more »
When the United States adopted the book minimum tax in July 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, it became clear that the country was not racing to implement Pillar Two issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in March 2022. But the enactment of the minimum…
After Scott Tincher started his tax career in Columbus, Ohio, he returned to his roots in Cleveland in 2005. He knew that he needed to build a new professional network after moving from Columbus. His solution was one you might have thought of yourself at one time or another: joining…
The tax insurance market is rapidly evolving and its benefits are becoming more widespread, especially in the area of mergers and acquisitions. To find out more about what’s happening in this space, we convened a roundtable comprising four knowledgeable professionals who gave us the real skinny on tax insurance: Jordan…
On July 28, TEI submitted comments to the European Commission (EC) regarding the EC’s proposal to set forth rules on a debt-equity bias reduction allowance (DEBRA) and on limiting the deductibility of interest for corporate income tax purposes. The EC proposed to accomplish this objective by providing for “the deductibility… Read more »
