Vol. 60 No. 3, May 2008
Index
- A winning team.
- TEI's chapters continue to impress.
- LMSB's Debbie Nolan receives TEI's Distinguished Service Award.
- Continuing education program set for 2008-2009: seminars on partnerships, financial reporting, IRS audits & appeals, and international tax planning round out calendar.
- State & local, Canadian activities top TEI's spring agenda: comments also filed on cafeteria plan regs, employment tax rules for disregarded entities.
- St. Louis Chapter hosts IRS Night, welcomes LMSB Commissioner Frank Ng.
- Santa Clara Valley Chapter presents Meritorious Service Award to Larry Langdon.
- New Jersey and Internal Revenue Service see things eye-to-eye.
- CRA Commissioner, government officials highlight 42nd Annual Canadian Tax Conference: Institute presents Distinguished Service Award to CRA's Ed Gauthier.
- Advancing TEI's social responsibility: on April 6, 2008, the Board of Directors of Tax Executives Institute adopted the following Report on Social Responsibility. Future issues of the magazine will discuss the implementation of the nine-point action plan approved by the Board.
- The pursuit of transparency does not trump the work product privilege.
- The issue focus approach after one year: can LMSB steer clear of the shelter paradigm?
- Advance pricing agreements - a strategic tool in global transfer pricing management.
- Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act: on May 13, 2008, Tax Executives Institute filed the following comments with the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, concerning H.R. 3359, the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007.
- Staff quick reference.
- VFJ Ventures, Inc. v. Surtees permissibility of Alabama's add-back statute: on April 29, 2008, Tax Executives Institute filed a brief amicus curae in with the Supreme Court of Alabama in VFJ Ventures, Inc. v. Surtees, relating to the permissibility of Alabama's add-back statute.
- Proposed revision of UDITPA: on May 13, 2008, Tax Executives Institute filed the following comments with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws concerning H.R. 3359, the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007.
- Proposed cafeteria plan regulations.
- Treatment of disregarded entities as corporations for employment tax purposes.
- TEI's letter to Canadian Department of Finance on paperwork burden reduction.
- Priority updates for Canadian interpretation bulletins and information circulars.
- Chapter employment committees.