Tax Administration
The Trials and Tribulations of the Family Office
Get ready to deal with the trappings of wealth and leveraging the next generation’s tax exemptions
If you’re a veteran family office adviser, you’ve spent decades working with the family’s estate-planning counsel to ensure that wealth is passed to succeeding generations as tax efficiently as possible. You faithfully oversee the implementation of annual exclusion gifts, intrafamily loans, and rolling grantor-retained annuity trust (GRAT) programs, and you… Read more »
How To Bind Without Getting in One: Avoiding Controversy Over Signature Authority Issues
It’s late in the day. After weeks of review, it’s time to file an entity classification election for an entity in your company’s structure. The election is due today. You have already carefully analyzed the ramifications of the election. Form 8832 has been drafted, reviewed, and approved. All that is… Read more »
Transfer Pricing: Are We in a Global Tax War?
Expect Controversy To Heat Up in Light of BEPS
Transfer pricing. This is one of the most complex and controversial areas of corporate tax, occupying considerable time and energy on the part of many of TEI’s members, especially in the last twelve months. What exactly is transfer pricing? According to Mike Patton and Eric Ryan, partners at the law… Read more »

Overreliance on AI for Tax Advice: A Cautionary Perspective With the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), many people…
Sales Tax Traps for Disregarded Entities Sales tax rules can be confusing, because states often take…
How Is Tax Policy Shaping the Future of Clean Energy Investment? US electricity demand is accelerating at a pace few anticipated.…
TEI Tax Technology Seminar Set to Deliver Once Again Each year, TEI’s Tax Technology Seminar brings together in-house tax…
Considerations in Tax Refund Litigation The Internal Revenue Service has seen unprecedented changes this year.…
The Unconstitutionality of the Brazilian QDMTT On December 30, 2024, the government of Brazil published Law…

