Managing tax risk is one of the greatest challenges for tax departments around the world (creating the opportunities to build relationships with revenue services), starting with the verification audit through to the resolution of tax controversies. A recent survey supports this contention. Key...

Structured finance transactions are increasingly under scrutiny by tax authorities. They are suspicious that the driving motivation behind such transactions is tax avoidance. This places all structured finance transactions in a spotlight of tax uncertainty and makes them a source of potential...

This paper is a submission to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on proposed Draft Income Tax Statement EB/2009/02. This submission analyzes the effect of the proposed treatment of tax uncertainties, which create potential contraventions of constitutions world-wide if...

This paper was presented as part of a workshop to supply chain managers in 2006, on tax planning as part of a tax risk management process. The paper contains useful tools to conduct the appropriate tax risk management strategy, with tax planning as the focal point. The paper also deals...

This paper summarizes the key features of tax risk management and sets out the typical steps that should be followed. It follows a typical Six Sigma process in going about tax risk management. This paper discusses tax risk management, in particular, in the context of Section 404 of the U.S....