You may already be modeling out the tax impact on your company’s financial statements of various tax reform scenarios, just as we have been doing for a number of our clients.

For five consecutive years, our global Taxand organization has surveyed CFOs and tax and finance directors across Europe, Asia and the Americas as part of its global survey to understand the current tax landscape across the world and how multinational companies are currently interacting with rapidly changing legislation and more focused tax authorities.

Taxand has conducted its annual global survey with an exclusive selection of large multinational clients, operating across a variety of industry sectors. Survey responses comprise interviews with CFOs, tax and finance directors from across Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Tectonic shifts are taking place in the global tax environment at a unprecedented pace and frequency, with some effects already clearly visible (e.g., BEPS directive in EU, interest barrier rules).

Successful CFOs are expected to partner with and provide guidance to the Board, CEO and other executives in making critical decisions directly impacting the success of the business.

The “dual function software,” “third party subset” and “third party interaction” concepts will change how you classify and document software development activities under Section 41.

A&M looked back at what happened in 2016, and looked ahead to the top prudential and conduct debates impacting bank strategy to identify the way forward for banks searching for a profitable franchise.

The emergence of big data technologies has led to a fundamental shift in the otherwise disconnected compliance information supply chain. Traditionally, organizations have relied on antiquated know-your-customer (KYC) and customer identification program (CIP) methods to solicit, capture and collect critical pieces of information about their customers, which is then disseminated across multiple business lines and often compartmentalized to make assessments about risk tolerance, marketing efforts, and compliance with laws and regulations.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its trust management capacity with the addition of Barry Babbitt, who joins the firm’s Financial Industry Advisory Services group as a Senior Advisor in Detroit.

A&M has promoted Managing Director Jonathan Hickman to the role of Co-Head of the Southern Region for its North American Restructuring division.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has bolstered its offerings across Asia with three senior hires in the region and the opening of an office in Singapore. These additions reflect A&M’s commitment to helping clients across Asia drive change and create value.

When our professionals provide multistate tax consulting services to a company, we approach the tax issue with a mindset that our efforts are designed to ensure that the company doesn’t pay any more tax than what is legally owed to a taxing jurisdiction.

Few major changes announced, and most previously announced changes confirmed. Autumn Statement to be abolished and replaced by an annual Autumn Budget.

Regulatory technology (regtech) is a rapidly growing sub-segment of the fintech ecosystem that focuses on technologies that deliver regulatory requirements more efficiently and effectively than existing capabilities.