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    Opportunity for Public Comment on OECD VAT/GST Guidance

    As expected, late last week the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released discussion drafts of two additional sections of its VAT/GST Guidelines, the initial version of which was published earlier this year. The purpose of the document is to lay out guiding principles for any country looking to introduce a VAT or GST system and, for those that already have one, to help provide a pathway to best practices, including the avoidance of double taxation and non-taxation.
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    What’s Your Transfer Pricing Story?

    “This is happening.” That line describes an important narrative from the 14th annual International Tax Review and TPWeek Global Transfer Pricing Forum I attended in Washington D.C. recently. The event, organized in association with Deloitte, identified several important steps tax professionals should consider as they contend with “this” –the G20 and OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS) project.
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    What Zappos, Netflix and Vertex Share

    What is it that Vertex shares with Netflix and Zappos? At our core we believe in enabling people to feel a greater sense of meaning, purpose and satisfaction at work. This in turn serves to drive innovation and performance. Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace study reinforces this by revealing, “the 30 million engaged employees in the U.S. come up with most of the innovative ideas, create most of a company’s new customers, and have the most entrepreneurial energy.”
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    Checking in on the Hospitality Industry’s Tax Challenges

    Whether you’re a bed and breakfast, an online travel agency (OTA) or a hotel chain, accurate tax calculation is critical. While these calculations have always been complex, the ramifications of non-compliance have never been higher. Companies in the hospitality industry -- especially hotels and other lodging businesses – face intense challenges in light of a spike in litigation over lodging and occupancy taxes. Headlines from business pages and digital publications throughout the country demonstrate this surge.
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    Temps and Tax Returns - Think Twice

    Recently, I attended the Association of Consumer Vehicle Lessors (ACVL) annual conference in New Orleans, where many of the country’s leading vehicle lessors met to discuss numerous business topics, including tax.
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    The Paparazzi Focus on Tax Transparency

    Thanks to social media, communications and technology advances and the public's insatiable appetite for information, sensationalizing corporate tax-planning activities has become a favorite pastime of the news media, activist groups and politicians. Never mind that these legal tax-planning activities are performed for the purpose of increasing shareholder value (and employee value). Campaigns of “tax shaming” are carried out by a growing throng of paparazzi that post “exposés” online and in print. Tax transparency demands are no longer just in the realm of regulators and taxing authorities.
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    5 Small Business Tips for Audit Protection

    When it comes to sales & use tax for small to medium-sized businesses, it is critical to understand what makes you compliant, and what puts you at risk.
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    Standardized Global Tax Processing No Longer a Pipe Dream

    Imagine a single technology platform in which a global company’s entire tax processing is performed according to a set of standardized processes … delivering unprecedented levels of transparency, governance and control.
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    Brave, New, Uncertain World for Retailers (Retail Tax Challenges, Part II)

    In my previous post, I discussed several of the primary challenges that confront retail tax functions. Tax automation can help address these challenges while delivering confidence that requirements are being met, as well as establishing a foundation for more efficient and effective compliance and reducing audit exposure.
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    Tax Plunges into the Era of Hyper-Regulation

    Twenty-five thousand... That’s roughly how many legislative changes have occurred around the world regarding tax in the past 12 months – and that is just in the area of transaction taxes.
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    Industry Focus: Retail Tax Challenges, Part 1

    “Unprecedented disruption and change” is the phrase that a Deloitte report uses to describe the current state of the retail industry. This extraordinary period of retail-industry disturbance is giving rise to new tax challenges, which in turn are motivating more tax functions to invest in automation to achieve greater efficiencies and free up tax professionals to engage in more valuable activities.

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