Interviews

The LCN Interview: Jim Sams

Jim Sams has been a tax consulting specialist for over 30 years, with around seven years in the public sector followed by 27 years at KPMG. Now semi-retired, he provides training in US international tax to a range of clients. How did you get into tax? I sort of fell into it. I’m…

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The LCN Interview: Josh Finfrock

Paul O’Regan

Josh Finfrock is a transfer pricing specialist with more than 17 years’ experience of working with multinational businesses. He started his career with a Big Four firm, and has since led transfer pricing for a top-10 national public accounting firm and served as an IRS economist. He is currently Director, Transfer Pricing at Weaver….

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Intercompany Agreements

The LCN Interview: Andrew Spiers

Paul O’Regan

Andrew Spiers is a Senior Associate at LCN Legal. He has extensive experience of a wide range of corporate legal work. As we speak you’ve been at LCN Legal for about a month; has the reality matched your expectations? To be honest, it has exceeded them. Everyone has been fantastic, and the work…

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Intercompany Agreements

Interview with Liz Bates, CEO of MACS

Paul O’Regan

Our CEO, Xiaofang Sutton, is running the London Marathon this year in aid of MACS, a charity which helps people born with a variety of rare eye conditions. We spoke to the charity’s CEO, Liz Bates. What was your career path to your current role? It’s quite an unusual path. My background is working in…

Interviews

The LCN Interview: Borys Ulanenko

Paul O’Regan

Borys Ulanenko is a transfer pricing professional, currently working in Krakow as part of Royal Dutch Shell’s in-house team. He also runs StarTax Education, a company he created that provides high-quality and affordable educational materials for people who are studying TP. How did you get into transfer pricing in the first place? It was…

Interviews

Intercompany Agreements

The LCN Interview: Jinkan Khatadia

Paul O’Regan

Jinkan Khatadia has over thirteen years of experience in transfer pricing. He is currently a Senior Manager at Grant Thornton’s Manhattan office in New York. How did you get into transfer pricing? Of my thirteen years of transfer pricing experience, two years is in academia. I was pursuing a master’s degree in Economics at…

Interviews

Intercompany Agreements

Live Workshop on 17 February: Intercompany Agreements for Transfer Pricing Compliance 101

Paul O’Regan

Few subjects in TP seem to be as misunderstood as intercompany agreements and group contracting models. This can lead to TP policies which make no sense. I came across a good example last week, in a TP report produced by the Los Angeles office of a Big Four firm. The report benchmarked manufacturing support services…

Group Reorganisations

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What we can learn from Singtel: webinar discussion with Johann Müller

Paul O’Regan

Following on from two recent blog posts by Paul Sutton and Harold McClure that related to the recent tax case involving Singapore Telecom Australia, we have completed the trilogy in a webinar with Johann Müller. Johann is a very experienced expert in international tax. In this discussion he looks at the details of the structure that…

Group Reorganisations

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