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Tax Reformers Consider Cash Flow Business Taxes, VATs, and Integration
The Expert: Harry L. (Hank) Gutman
In the last Congress, tax reformers considered cash flow business taxes, VATs, and integration as part of potential business tax reform. What’s the Outlook for Congressional Tax Reform? The second session of the last Congress saw some positive developments in the seemingly never- ending quest for business income tax reform.… Read more »
Access Granted: The Campaign
When TEI Past President Sandy Macfarlane assumed his post a little more than a year ago, he introduced his plan Building for the Future. Part of the plan involved engaging with emerging leaders in TEI and expanding access to new members. This strategic endeavor, continuing its progress under new TEI… Read more »
Emerging Leader: Wayne Hamilton
When Wayne Hamilton was in his second year of law school at North Carolina Central University Law School in Durham, North Carolina, he took two business tax classes. “I instantly knew I had found my niche as I realized that tax impacted every aspect of life—business or personal—in some respect,”… Read more »
Reporting for Duty and Honored to Serve
Leading the preeminent association of in-house tax professionals represents the ultimate combination of service and duty to our peers and profession and, for me, is a capstone to my thirty-plus-year career as a tax professional. As I rose through the Institute’s leadership queue, I regularly thought about how, when my… Read more »
Acknowledgements
September/October 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 »
How Tax Platforms Can Drive Corporate Data Analytics
Data analytics, over time, has had an unquestionable impact on how we do business, affecting consumers and the corporations that serve them. The impact on corporations has been both externally and internally focused, and now it’s time for tax departments to get in on the revolution. Data analytics is opening… Read more »
Head to the (Gubernatorial) Races!
Twelve states will be electing governors in the November elections. Here’s the breakdown of who is running where. Delaware Incumbent: Jack Markell (D); term limited Candidates Rep. John C. Carney Jr. (D) State Sen. Colin Bonini (R) Lacey Lafferty (R) Sean Goward (L) Indiana Incumbent: Mike Pence (R); running for… Read more »
Lynne Clare
Lynne Clare knows value-added tax (VAT). She really knows VAT. Currently the strategic VAT director at Sony, Clare has been involved with VAT issues for most of her career. It all began a little more than 26 years ago when she was posted to a VAT team at Her Majesty’s… Read more »
Thank You
When I began preparing for my year as TEI International President, I reached out to several past presidents to gain a general sense about their experiences, what was especially memorable, and what, if anything, they may have done differently. I was especially interested in two particular dimensions. First, the goal-setting… Read more »
Acknowledgments
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 »
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