TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors. Their financial support enables TEI to maintain a rich program of value-added education, networking, and advocacy activities for the in-house tax community. Exclusive Affinity Partner Thomson Reuters Platinum Andersen BDO Birch Risk Advisors Bloomberg Tax CAC, part of The Baldwin Group Crowe… Read more »
Corporate tax departments continue to struggle to move beyond compliance work and into more strategic roles, according to Thomson Reuters’ 2025 State of the Corporate Tax Department report, produced in collaboration with TEI. Despite ambitions to modernize, most departments remain bogged down by limited budgets, talent shortages, and outdated technology.… Read more »
The TEI EMEA Chapter met at PwC’s offices in Lausanne, Switzerland, November 13–14, to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary and hold its fall meeting. The event began with an EMEA Chapter board meeting that welcomed several past chapter presidents. On Thursday, November 13, the chapter hosted its member day, which featured… Read more »
According to Sandy Shanks, managing director, tax, at ConocoPhillips Canada, her initial path to a career in tax was twisted. “I started my studies at the University of Alberta in a physiotherapy program but then decided I wanted to pursue medicine,” she says. “So, I pulled out of physiotherapy to… Read more »
TEI’s advocacy is a prime benefit of membership. By participating in advocacy efforts, you can shape the corporate tax system—in the United States and around the world—to be more efficient and less burdensome. Below are several examples of TEI’s advocacy over the past several months. At the end of this… Read more »
TEI hosted its third annual Ethics CPE for Tax Professionals Webinar Series, December 10–11, providing in-house tax professionals with an opportunity to earn 2025 ethics CPE credits before year-end while strengthening their understanding of today’s most pressing ethical challenges. The series covered timely ethics topics, including accounting method decisions, the… Read more »
The Internal Revenue Service has seen unprecedented changes this year. Approximately 25,000 IRS employees—or twenty-five percent of its workforce—have accepted the deferred resignation or retired or were laid off.1 When we wrote this article in November, the federal government had been shut down for more than four weeks with only…
US electricity demand is accelerating at a pace few anticipated. Growth in artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles, reshored manufacturing, and the large data centers that provide the connectivity infrastructure for each is pushing the power grid toward record new demand beyond its current capacity. Energy consulting firms predict sharp growth…
2026 US International Tax Course (Simulive Edition) January 21–March 11 Virtual Mergers & Acquisitions Seminar February 12–13 Houston, TX 76th Midyear Conference March 15–18 Washington, DC SALT Essentials Course (Simulive Edition) March 24–May 21 Virtual Tax Technology Seminar April 27–29 Las Vegas, NV Federal Tax Course – Level 1 April… Read more »
On October 20, TEI submitted comments on Notice 2025-44, which announced the forthcoming withdrawal of final regulations concerning disregarded payments losses and related changes to the dual consolidated loss (DCL) rules, among other things. The letter included comments on the definition of foreign use, the DCL rules’ treatment of disregarded… Read more »
