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Emerging Leader: Michell Rodriguez

For many people, Costco is their favorite store. For Michell Rodriguez, it’s her favorite (and current) employer, and she appreciates working there as much as if not more than customers enjoy shopping there. Here’s how Rodriguez, director of corporate tax, describes working at Costco: “I work for and with really… Read more »

A Little Rebellion Now and Again

Over two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson observed that “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing.” Well, there are rebellions and then there are rebellions. The recent 2016 presidential election arguably belongs in that second category, with its pushed envelopes, destroyed conventions, and overturned expectations about… Read more »

Emerging Leader: Dorothy O’Shea

“When I graduated from university with a bachelor of commerce degree with a major in accounting, I would never have imagined that my career path would have led me to spending the majority of my career in tax,” Dorothy O’Shea says. But O’Shea, currently head of tax for General Mills… Read more »

Jim Kennedy

For Jim Kennedy, there was little doubt that his calling was to be a tax professional. In law school, Kennedy took every tax course he could and wrote a comment for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review on safe harbor leasing under ERTA and TEFRA. “This interest in tax legislation… Read more »

Data Analytics for Tax: A Primer

Big data is one of the most important advances the business and consumer sectors have seen since the dawn of the internet. But what does big data mean for tax? What doors can it open? Although some skepticism is healthy every time marketers and media outlets trumpet a new, seemingly… Read more »

Practical Implications of New Partnership Audit Rules
The Experts: Michael Hauswirth, Todd McArthur, and Adam Feuerstein

Ignore the new partnership audit rules at your own peril. Absent an election of earlier application, they take effect for tax years beginning in 2018. Under the new rules, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) generally will collect tax at the partnership level on adjusted partnership items at the highest corporate… Read more »

TEI’s 71st Annual Conference— Examining Tax Transparency

Checking in Ahead of Year-End

It’s almost year-end. No, not that year-end! The one that’s focused on family and friends, sumptuous meals, storytelling, and kids home from school. Yes, it’s almost holiday time, when we take stock of our progress, express thanks for our blessings and accomplishments, and hope for the same in the coming… Read more »

Mitch Frank

For some corporate tax practitioners, interest in tax issues begins with their first job in the financial area; for others it’s law school; still others, college. But for Mitch Frank, general director, taxes, at BNSF Railway Inc., it began in high school. “I took a bookkeeping course that included reference… Read more »

The Intersection of Customs and Tax Disciplines: Which Tail, Which Dog?

In determining “which tail, which dog” controls the intersection of the customs and tax disciplines, we must first define what we mean by “tax.” If we refer to tax in the broadest sense, to include all forms of tax levies, both direct and indirect, then there is no intersection at… Read more »

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