Valerie Dickerson Honored With the 2017 Benjamin F. Miller Award

• Publication year: 2018

Valerie Dickerson Honored with the 2017 Benjamin F. Miller Award

The Taxation Section of the California State Bar is pleased to have presented the Benjamin F. Miller Award to Valerie Dickerson of Deloitte, LLP. Valerie was presented with the distinguished state and local tax award at the Annual Meeting of the California Tax Bar and California Tax Policy Conference held on November at 1-3, 2017, at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad, California.

The Benjamin F. Miller Award is presented on an annual basis by the Taxation Section to a recipient who is recognized as having outstanding achievement and contribution in the field of state and local taxation law. The recipient, who is selected by the Executive Committee of the Taxation Section, may be engaged in private practice, teaching, or government service in California. With respect to this award, the official statement of Taxation Section reads:

Benjamin F. Miller has been instrumental in leading California and the nation in the development of multistate taxation laws, regulations, and procedures throughout his 38-year career in the Legal Division at the Franchise Tax Board. He was the principal draftsperson of the Water's-Edge legislation and the principal draftsperson and hearing officer on regulations involving the multijurisdictional taxation of numerous special industries, as well as the author of many scholarly articles. He authored briefs in significant California Appellate and Supreme Court cases, United States District Court of Appeals cases, and 11 United States Supreme Court cases, including Container Corporation of America v. Franchise Tax Board and Barclays Bank International, Ltd. v. Franchise Tax Board. He has been a key figure in numerous California Tax Policy Conferences, Multistate Tax Commission committees, Federation of Tax Administrators meetings, the University of California, Davis Summer Tax Institute, and various other multistate jurisdictional tax symposiums, and has served as a tax consultant for the Internal Revenue Service, United States Air Force, Prentice-Hall, and the states of New Mexico, Virginia, and New Hampshire. He appeared in an advisory capacity before the United States Congress and as primary spokesperson for the Franchise Tax Board before the California Legislature, and was an invitee of the European Economic Union to provide expert opinion on the possible adoption of a formulary apportionment system of assigning the income of multinational businesses among the countries in the European Economic Union. He has earned the universal respect and admiration of his colleagues at the Franchise Tax Board, the many professionals with whom he has worked from private accounting and legal firms, the Board of Equalization,

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