Specializes in income tax and tax planning, compliance, and financial reporting
Licensed Certified Public Accountant and member of the State Bar of Texas
Houston
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Mark Young is a Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLC, in Houston. He specializes in income tax matters. His primary areas of concentration are tax planning, compliance, and financial reporting.
With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Young has advised both public and privately held, multinational companies on a variety of income tax matters, including complex business transactions, tax compliance, and financial reporting matters. He has experience in accounting for income taxes (ASC 740) as well as helping companies with tax department performance improvement, operations, and best practices. Mr. Young regularly speaks at the Tax Executives Institute and to other industry and tax organizations. He has worked with clients across various industries, including energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, banking, insurance, professional services, and private equity.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Young was a Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Industry Service Group and Federal Tax Practice in Houston. Previously, he worked as an Associate with both Ernst & Young’s Dallas office and the firm’s National Tax Department in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Young earned his bachelor’s degree in business (concentration in finance) from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas.
With the new tax bill now official, companies making acquisitions that are asset purchases (or treated as asset acquisitions for tax purposes) will want to pay close attention to the agreed-upon purchase price allocation.
I’ve lived through both the highest highs and lowest lows of the IPO market since I first began working in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s. I’ve experienced both the manic days of the dot-com boom’s seemingly daily S-1 filings (remember Pets.com and Webvan?) and the darkest days of the Great Recession (and everything in between).
While there are many uncertainties in the House Republicans’ current tax reform blueprint, perhaps the item garnering the most attention is the potential decrease in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 or 20 percent.
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The Romanian Prime Minister has reintroduced legislation raising the standard VAT rate from 19% to 21% and replacing the existing 5% and 9% VAT rates by a new reduced rate of 11% with effect from 1 August 2025 (supply date driven).
