President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16. As TEI members know, the IRA included two major “revenue raisers” of importance to the business tax community. First, a new corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) imposing a fifteen percent tax on the “adjusted financial statement… Read more »
We are excited to announce that three new staff members have joined TEI. Brenda Zelada Brenda Zelada joined TEI as manager of membership and chapter engagement in September. Zelada has more than nine years of experience in the nonprofit arena, and her skills and expertise include event management, donor and… Read more »
TEI’s Canadian Income Tax Committee, in collaboration with a spectacular legal team from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, which represented TEI pro bono, recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of Canada in Deans Knight Income Corporation v. Her Majesty the Queen. The Deans Knight case addresses important…
For almost four decades, the foreign tax credit regulations have established a three-part net gain requirement for determining when a particular foreign levy is an income tax. Now, things have changed. We assembled a panel of knowledgeable tax practitioners in the space to discuss how these changes came about and…
Latacia Trice, who took over as president of TEI’s Detroit Chapter in July, hopes to get back to more in-person events as well as to host the first social event the chapter has held in several years. Although she had been chapter president for little more than a month at…
A common question tax directors ask when considering whether to litigate a state tax case is, What is the likelihood we will win? It’s an obvious question to ask, but an impossible one to answer. In our own experience, we have won cases we’d thought were stacked against us and…
TEI is excited to announce the launch of a new member benefit, the Thought Leadership Bulletin. The Thought Leadership Bulletin is a biweekly electronic newsletter featuring a compilation of curated content from TEI’s sponsors in different areas of tax. Over twenty sponsors participated in the Thought Leadership Bulletin’s inaugural edition.…
On August 1, the TEI Cleveland Chapter hosted its sixth Annual Scholarship Golf Outing at Signature of Solon Country Club in Solon, Ohio. This year’s outing included twenty-two teams sponsored by fifteen firms. Proceeds from the golf outing support scholarships for students who have an interest in a career in… Read more »
As readers are well aware, almost a year ago, on December 28, 2021, the Treasury Department issued final foreign tax credit regulations (hereafter the “final regulations”)1 finalizing the proposed regulations that Treasury had issued the prior year.2 On July 26, 2022, Treasury issued two sets of technical corrections to the…
TEI’s State and Local Tax Committee has developed an extensive set of policy statements reflecting TEI’s position on important administrative and procedural issues. These statements facilitate advocacy by providing formal position papers TEI’s members can use when communicating with taxing agencies. The State and Local Tax Committee recently revised a… Read more »
