On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed a year-end spending package that included the long-awaited Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the “SECURE Act”), ushering in the most sweeping reform to retirement saving in the U.S. since the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

A&M Taxand UK and Taxand commissioned macroeconomic research firm, Capital Economics, in Autumn 2019, to analyse and assess the tax system options available to the UK post-Brexit.

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States was considered to have the most advanced infrastructure in the world, supported by the quality and integrity of the roads, railways, bridges, airports and utilities.

Schools, libraries, hospitals, courthouses, and government buildings serve as the cornerstone of society and facilitate core functions of democracy. Despite the critical role these facilities play in our daily lives, our public buildings, often referred to as social infrastructure, are crumbling.

On June 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair (“Wayfair”), 585 U.S. ___ (2018), overturned the long-standing precedent embraced 26 years earlier in its 1992 decision in Quill v. North Dakota requiring physical presence for sales and use tax nexus.

Constant, rapid innovation is often seen as essential for high-tech engineering firms.Here, we outlined how the company worked with A&M to develop a surprisingly unradical approach, which helped to simplify processes and drive better business outcomes.

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed a spending bill that included legislation to extend the Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deduction (Internal Revenue Code section 179D) through December 31, 2020.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) Disputes and Investigations team in Asia provides analysis of trends in Asia in 2020 to guide businesses in identifying and navigating potential risks in a year of expected growing economic uncertainty and heightened regulatory demands.

After leading the way as the primary home for brownfield infrastructure investors capital for much of the last ten years, a sharp reduction in U.K. transactions in 2019 drove a decrease in European volumes for the first time in five years.

Managing Director Vincent Walden recently published an article for ACFE’s Fraud Magazine titled, “Demystifying AI in Anti-Fraud and Compliance Efforts,” where he discussed the implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning for fraud examiners and compliance professionals.

Alvarez & Marsal Managing Directors Nandini Chopra, Vivek Kamra, Nikhil Shah contributed to a feature article in India’s Business Standard that explains how Alvarez & Marsal, as advisor and resolution professional, helped in the insolvency proceedings of Essar Steel Ltd.

As businesses face heavy pressures due to the global economic downturn, companies and their stakeholders need to remain vigilant against fraud to avoid financial ruin.

Valuation of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and the accounting policies and procedures surrounding them has evolved over the last several years. Over that same time horizon, the CLO market has boomed, forcing those involved with valuation to achieve a deeper understanding of the risks of these structures and put firm valuation policies in place.

On December 2, 2019, the IRS and Treasury Department published two new regulation packages -- one on foreign tax credits (“FTC”) and the other on the base erosion and anti-abuse tax (“BEAT”). In this edition of Tax Advisor Weekly, we focus specifically on the BEAT regulation package.

The gaming industry is expanding and gaming companies are growing their businesses in new markets with new players through a growing number of betting and entertainment products.