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Recently, I was honored to sit on a panel at TEI’s 74th Annual Conference with my colleague Minah Hall and Follett’s Vice President – Tax, Ken Hansen, to discuss trends in negotiated incentives and credits, and how talent trends are impacting business decisions as well as the tax profession specifically. The Tax Executives Institute (TEI) continues to provide a world-class platform for tax professionals and this years’ annual conference was […]

Authored by Anli Chen, Director – Technology Transformation We are in the age when people are overwhelmed with inputs while hungry for meaningful and impactful intelligence. This is especially true for the tax function of an organization where regular reports, financial data points, regulatory updates, or system extracts, in fragmented and sporadic fashions, are aggregated for compliance and regulatory purposes. As a response, tax technology platforms have evolved beyond basic […]

Politics and Congressional Activity The House and Senate both passed a continuing resolution (CR) that extends government spending authority through November 21st, thereby averting a government shutdown at the end of September.  The House has approved a number of the annual appropriations bills, but they were developed prior to the passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (BBA) (enacted on August 2nd), which lifted the statutory caps on discretionary […]