For anyone working in a partnership, making the leap from employee to partner is often a great career accomplishment. But from a tax standpoint, the achievement brings with it a number of new—and significant—tax considerations, particularly in the compensation and benefits arena. 

The IRS Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement (APMA) program announced recently that it has developed a “functional cost diagnostic model” (“FCDM”), an Excel-based program, to facilitate its review of certain Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) requests.

Supplier Relationship Management enables information exchange and joint problem solving to enhance spend visibility.

Alvarez & Marsal’s Compensation and Benefits Practice recently released two studies on compensation practices in the oil and gas industry, one covering the exploration & production (E&P) sector and one covering the oilfield services (OFS) sector. These are the key takeaways from our research.

Two powerful forces are pushing companies to assess whether they have a sustainable, profitable future.

On the 4th April 2019, HMRC published a special employer bulletin relating to key social security considerations in the event of no deal exit from the E.U.

Senior Director Michael Carter recently co-authored a New York Law Journal article discussing how sports betting operators can maintain compliance and legal standards with increased regulation and scrutiny due to the legalization of gambling. 

A potential revamp of corporate formation disclosure rules is likely to turn on who controls sought-after ownership data.

The April 2019 edition examines the rapid spread of shareholder activism across Continental Europe, with France, Germany, Italy and Spain all showing increasing concentrations of companies vulnerable to activist campaigns. While the UK remains the largest activist market, the report finds that investor attention is becoming more widely distributed as activism gains acceptance across European boardrooms.

As taxpayers near the end of income tax provision and tax return extension calculations, they may be thinking they have reached the end of the learning curve in terms of the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). While tax departments were busy developing new data sets and finding tools to assist with the calculations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was releasing new draft and revised forms. Taxpayers will be required to familiarize themselves with these forms to report the TCJA effects in the coming months.

In 2009, the UAE took a significant step forward in adopting international best practices by introducing governance regulations for listed companies.

The soaring number of campaigns by activist investors means management teams and board members have become increasingly familiar with the activist playbook

The increased overtime salary threshold is back. On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to raise the salary thresholds of the “white collar” overtime exemption rules. This is the second time in recent years that the DOL has attempted to increase these thresholds, and this latest effort is sure to be a hot topic in the coming months.

The UAE has always played an active role in the prevention of illicit financing, but its latest efforts now need the support of engaged organizations to ensure regulatory compliance and the building of requisite internal capacity. If this happens, the rewards could be significant.

A&M Managing Directors, Brian Cumberland and J.D. Ivy, featured in the Houston Business Journal discussing executive compensation in the oil field services sector.