Event Description
What Every Executive Should Know about State and Local Tax
TEI’s CTO Monthly Discussion Series provides a dedicated forum for Chief Tax Officers to connect, exchange insights, and discuss emerging issues and strategic priorities in a confidential, peer-only environment. These virtual sessions offer a unique opportunity to engage with fellow CTOs on timely topics, share best practices, and strengthen your professional network.
Nearly every business decision leads to a state and local tax consequence. Expanding or downsizing a facility? Acquiring (or divesting) a business line? Offering a new service? Each of these decisions will implicate a state tax. This presentation will provide some suggestions as to how best to communicate state tax considerations to business colleagues who do not necessarily love tax (like the rest of us).
Eligibility: This is a free, members-only event. Attendance is limited exclusively to TEI members currently serving in a Chief Tax Officer role.
Registration: To register, please email us at meetings@tei.org. All requests will be reviewed for eligibility.
Note: This event is not eligible for CPE credit.
Speakers:
Jeffrey A. Friedman, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
Jeff provides sophisticated state and local tax planning, strategic advice, and advocacy to numerous Fortune 100 and industry-leading companies.
His comprehensive practice includes state and local tax planning, compliance, legislation and policy, and litigation and controversy matters involving income, franchise, sales and use, and property taxes. Jeff’s clients span a variety of industries, including e-commerce, energy, technology, and telecommunications.
A recognized thought leader on state and local tax issues, Jeff works on high-profile and precedent-setting litigation and controversy matters across the country. These matters impact critical questions on nexus, apportionment, the Multistate Tax Compact and the equal protection, due process, and commerce clauses of the United States Constitution. Jeff is also a well-respected advocate on issues of tax policy, including the taxation of digital economy transactions.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland (US), Jeff was a partner in KPMG’s Washington national tax practice; served as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy, where he assisted with the development of the U.S. government's position on domestic and international electronic commerce tax issues; and served as vice president and counsel of the Committee (now Council) On State Taxation (COST).