Activities By Committee

On June 1, 2011, the Institute filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision allowing Iowa to tax corporations with no physical presence in the State, KFC…
On May 31, 2011, TEI submitted comments to the European Commission on a Green Paper consultation titled "On the future of VAT: Towards a simpler, more robust and efficient VAT system." The comments…
On May 5, 2011, members of TEI's Cleveland and Cincinnati Chapters attended their annual liaison meeting with the Ohio Department of Taxation. The TEI contingent met with high-level Department…
On April 29, 2011, TEI submitted a letter opposing a referendum to rescind British Columbia's Harmonized Sales Tax and restore the Provincial Sales Tax. TEI's letter summarizes the Institute's…
On April 12, 2011, TEI filed a letter urging the Alabama legislature to pass bill establishing a pre-payment, independent tax appeals tribunal but raising concerns with the legislation's proposed "…
On March 30, 2011, TEI sent a letter to the OECD affirming direction of OECD's VAT/GST neutrality guidelines. TEI's comments were prepared by the Institute's European Indirect Tax Committee, whose…
On March 7, 2011, TEI submitted a letter to Finance Canada and Canada Revenue Agency recommending amendments to the Harmonized Value-added Tax System regulations to make restricted input tax credit (…
On February 24, 2011, TEI filed an amicus letter with the California Supreme Court urging the Court to grant the pending Petition for Review filed by the California Taxpayers's Association in Supreme…
On December 7-8, 2010, TEI held its annual liaison meetings with Canadian Department of Finance and Canada Revenue Agency. Canada Revenue Agency TEI Liaison Agenda IncomeTax Meeting Minutes…
On October 26, 2010, TEI submitted recommendations to the OECD on its consultation Transfer Pricing Aspects of Intangibles. Download the submission.  
On September 21, 2010, TEI filed an amicus letter with the California Supreme Court in River Garden Retirement Home v. Franchise Tax Board urging the court to accept the case and clarify the rules…
On September 2, 2010, TEI filed comments suggesting changes to proposed Washington Department of Revenue emergency regulations (WAC 458-20-19401, 458-20-19402 and 458-20-19403) interpreting recently…
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