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• IRS Eyeing Executive Pay

  BNET - 2006-04-10

  The Securities and Exchange Commission isn't the only regulator taking a closer look at executive compensation. The Internal Revenue Service will be scrutinizing executive pay this tax season too, as part of its continuing effort to force more companies to treat fringe benefits as wages for income and employment tax...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Executive Compensation, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance

• Overexposed

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  In a technical-advice memorandum, the Internal Revenue Service IRS states that transactions are taxable if the executive lends company shares to the entity that arranges the deal. As it turns out, these entities - banks or other financial institutions - typically sell the stock short to hedge their own exposure....

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance

• The Broad Implications of Section 965 Repatriation

  BNET - 2005-09-01

  Repatriation provisions under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (section 965 of the Internal Revenue Code) offer an opportunity to bring profits earned overseas back to the United States with greatly reduced tax consequences. But section 965 is as much a forward-looking strategic matter as it is a tax...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Section, Internal Revenue Code, Taxes, Free Trade, Regulations, Financial Planning, Finance, Government

• Looking To Land

  BNET - 2005-01-01

  From the executive summary: ‘According to real estate services firms, CFOs, and other senior financial executives increasingly get the nod to lead major site-selection programs. A variety of reasons are cited, including a growing desire to subject site decisions to the same sort of return-on-investment analysis demanded by other capital...

  Tags: Supply Chain, Staffing, CFO Publishing Corp., Transportation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Taxes, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance

• Shelter Fallout

  BNET - 2004-11-01

  From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that the risks for law-abiding companies in recent years have also climbed. According to tax experts, even companies that scrupulously adhere to the tax code are now more likely to face government scrutiny. As regulators cast a bigger net, they will inevitably haul in...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance

• Taxpayer Beware

  BNET - 2004-10-01

  From the executive summary: ‘The Internal Revenue Service IRS is making good a directive aimed at curbing transfer-pricing abuses. The practice, which involves the sale of goods from one business unit to another in a different country, is a notoriously gray area that has often confounded regulators. IRS has tried...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, Pricing, Free Trade, Marketing Research, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing

• Where Are All The Europeans?

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  From the executive summary: ‘The relationship between deal flow and currency values surprises few experts in the M&A field. One problem with buying American assets to take advantage of the weak dollar, is that the cash flows eventually coming from the purchase must be repatriated at the future exchange rate,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Free Trade, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Euro Clash

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  From the executive summary: ‘Socially sensitive issues may prove to be much more intractable than tariffs, in context of international trade. And that's troubling. With the ebb of Cold War cooperation and the rise of Iraq War fractiousness, trade has been touted as the glue that holds the United States...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Free Trade, Finance

• Bolting From The Big Four

  BNET - 2004-04-01

  From the executive summary: ‘Most companies keep two sets of books; one for financial accounting and one for tax filing. But, a new proposal from the Internal Revenue Service IRS would make them synchronize the two sets of numbers. The proposed form, known as Schedule M-3, would force corporate taxpayers...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Income, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

• Poor Move

  BNET - 2004-02-09

  From the executive summary: ‘The best time for a company to handle property taxes is before it moves to a new location. Yet, even when states offer property-tax abatements as relocation or expansion incentives, companies tend to leave money on the table. When it came to the incentives actually offered,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Sales Force Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales