By David L. Bernard TaxBlawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the former Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a past president of the Tax Executives Institute, and a periodic contributor to TaxBlawg. My last blog post suggested that the best defense against transfer pricing assessments is the adoption of a globally consistent transfer [...]
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Transfer Pricing and How to Handle the “Double-Edged Sword”
February 28, 2011By David L. Bernard TaxBlawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the former Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a past president of the Tax Executives Institute, and a periodic contributor to TaxBlawg. Transfer pricing among affiliated companies is the classic “double-edged sword”. When carefully designed, transfer pricing practices can cut a company’s effective [...]
The Repatriation Dilemma Revisited
December 7, 2010By David L. Bernard TaxBlawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the recently retired Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a past president of the Tax Executives Institute, and a periodic contributor to TaxBlawg. My recent post titled The Repatriation Dilemma: Cash may be King, but is Earnings Per Share the Ace of Trump? [...]
The Repatriation Dilemma: Cash May Be King, But Is Earnings Per Share Trump?
September 1, 2010By David L. Bernard TaxBlawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the recently retired Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a past president of the Tax Executives Institute, and a periodic contributor to TaxBlawg. The financial press can’t stop talking about the amount of cash on corporate balance sheets. Journalists and arm-chair analysts alike [...]
LMSB’s Quality Examination Process – Ensuring its Application is “Fair and Balanced”
July 14, 2010By David L. Bernard TaxBlawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the recently retired Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a past president of the Tax Executives Institute, and a periodic contributor to TaxBlawg. In case you missed it, the IRS recently introduced a new approach to its audit management process, called the Quality [...]
All Hands on Deck: The Case for Broadening the In-House Discussion of Tax Issues
June 8, 2010By David L. Bernard TaxBlawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the recently retired Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a past president of the Tax Executives Institute, and a periodic contributor to TaxBlawg. As the IRS sifts through dozens of comment letters on the proposed disclosure of uncertain tax positions, in-house tax officers [...]
Tax Accounting Practices in a UTP Disclosure Environment
May 18, 2010By David L. Bernard Tax Blawg’s Guest Commentator, David L. Bernard, is the recently retired Vice President of Taxes for Kimberly-Clark Corporation and a past president of the Tax Executives Institute. It is not too soon for in-house tax professionals to be thinking about how the disclosure of uncertain tax positions (required beginning with 2010 [...]
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