Departments and Columns
Martina Krummen
When Martina Krummen joined KPMG for her internship, she was transferred for three months to the indirect tax department for a special project. During this time, she traveled across Canada and the United States for a major client of the firm to identify sales tax opportunities for their various business… Read more »
An LB&I Reorganization Overview
The recent restructuring of the LB&I division of the IRS has many wondering how responsibilities may change. (See the March/April 2016 Tax Executive cover story, “The New LB&I.”) Here we provide an easy-access organizational chart* so you can see who is responsible for which regions and where your LB&I questions… Read more »
Corporate Tax Professionals’ Greatest Challenges Require Forward-Looking Technology
Corporate tax departments are facing an unprecedented barrage of new and changing reporting demands as a result of global regulatory shifts. To get a better understanding of the issues that corporate tax departments face, Thomson Reuters recently surveyed more than 3,500 tax professionals about their corporate tax challenges and technology.… Read more »
TEI — Wonderfully the Same, Wonderfully Different
Traveling for TEI is one of the responsibilities—and benefits—of serving in the Institute’s senior leadership. Over the past three years, and now, as Institute president, I have had the opportunity to visit chapter, regional, and Institute events around the world. Visiting chapters in different parts of the world provides insight… Read more »
Acknowledgements
March/April 2016
TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms that sponsored TEI’s Midyear Conference. Their financial support enables TEI to maintain a rich program of value-added education, networking, and advocacy activities for the in-house tax community. Platinum Thomson Reuters (TEI’s Exclusive Affinity Partner) ADP Alvarez & Marsal Taxand LLC Andersen… Read more »
Nancy Farahmand
Someone once said, “The world is made up of two kinds of people: Those who love solving puzzles—and those who don’t.” Nancy Farahmand, the director of international taxes and planning at JCPenney, loves solving puzzles. “I always enjoyed solving puzzles and knew, from my first tax course in college, that… Read more »
HMRC Issues New Guidance on UK’s Diverted Profits Tax
On November 30, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) issued new interpretive guidance on the UK’s diverted profits tax (DPT) found in Part Three of the Finance Act 2015, which is intended to apply to large multinational enterprises (MNEs) with business activities in the UK that enter into “contrived arrangements” to… Read more »
Who’s Who at the TEI Midyear Conference
Tax Executives Institute is an organization made up of varied in-house tax professionals, and there’s no event like a conference to take stock of how the distribution works out. We examined the attendee data* to give you a look at who makes up the TEI membership. (*Data current based on… Read more »
Change — It’s Everywhere
No matter who said it first—Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, or someone else—the message remains true to this very day: The only real constant is change. In the tax world, change is everywhere, in international tax policy developments, administrative and regulatory reorganizations, and expansion of financial reporting regimes, not to mention… Read more »
Acknowledgements
TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms that sponsored TEI’s Annual Conference. Their financial support enables TEI to maintain a rich program of value-added education, networking, and advocacy activities for the in-house tax community. PLATINUM Thomson Reuters (TEI’s Exclusive Affinity Partner) ADP Alvarez & Marsal Taxand LLC Andersen… Read more »
An Overview of the EU Public Country-by-Country Reporting Rules The European Union (EU) has long been at the forefront…
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