Hosts annual tax conference.

• Position: PORTLAND CHAPTER - Conference notes

On April 29, more than 100 tax professionals gathered at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Oregon, for the TEI Portland Chapter's Annual Tax Conference.

Chapter President Michael Burch of Nike started the conference by welcoming participants. Eric Solomon, co-director of Ernst & Young's national tax department, delivered the keynote on tax policy. Manal Corwin, KPMG's National Service Line Leader for international tax, summarized the Organisation for Economoic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) ambitious Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. Manal worked for the U.S. Treasury Department and was the U.S. delegate to the OECD's Committee on Fiscal Affairs when the BEPS project was initiated.

Participants chose between one of two discussions to attend. The first, given by Jeff Jones and Nicole Stork of PwC, was about developments on the research-and-development tax credits. The second, on valuation, was led by Jeffrey Tarbell of Houlihan Lokey.

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