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Webinar: Decoding the New Tax Code

This webinar explores the contours of the new tax legislation, and explains how you can best take advantage of it.

Audience: Member-only webinars are crafted and presented by AAFA to address member needs and provide exclusive insights around industry developments. AAFA member-only webinars are closed-press.

Description:

On December 21, President Trump signed into law the most comprehensive U.S. tax reform in more than three decades. The new law impacts virtually all parts of the tax code and requires companies to rethink the tax strategies and assumptions that have guided them for the past thirty years. Among other things, the new law includes complex new provisions affecting pass through entities or those who do business with connected companies based overseas. Please join AAFA and tax specialists from RSM as we explore the contours of the new tax legislation, and explain how you can best take advantage of it.

Attendees of this webinar will:
  • Understand major features of the new tax law.
  • Explore what the regulatory process will look like going forward.
  • Consider strategies to maximize benefits for your bottom line.  

Speakers:

Steve Lamar
Executive Vice President
AAFA

Stephen E. Lamar is Executive Vice President, where he also serves as liaison to AAFA’s Government Relations Committee, Government Contracts Committee, and Legwear Committee. He represents AAFA members before Congress and the Administration on a range of issues, including government procurement, counterfeiting/intellectual property rights, international trade, market access, customs, labor, environment, and product safety. In these roles, Steve also advises AAFA member companies on legislation and regulatory policies affecting the clothing and footwear industries. Prior to AAFA, Steve was a trade analyst at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Before joining the Commerce Department, Steve served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the southern African country of Botswana. Steve is President of the Washington International Trade Association. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Colgate University and a Master of Arts Degree in International Affairs (with a concentration on African politics and international trade) from George Washington University.

Mathew Talcoff
Partner, National Consumer Products Tax Leader
RSM US LLP

Matt is a Partner in RSM’s tax practice and the U.S. tax leader for our Consumer Products Industry.  He has 25 years of experience assisting clients with tax compliance, tax planning and transaction advisory services.  Matt assists his retail clients with such things as federal and multistate tax planning and compliance, global tax rate and tax cash flow management, manufacturing incentives, tax credits (investment tax credits, work opportunity, and enterprise zone), accounting methods, build out and capital expenditure depreciation, lease inducements, cost segregation studies, succession planning, accounting for income taxes and more.   Matt helps his clients streamline, integrate, and automate their tax and financial accounting, compliance, research, and knowledge management systems and has significant experience working with both public and private companies.

Prior to joining RSM, Matt was a partner at Caturano and Company and practice leader at a Big Four firm where he worked for over 17 years serving businesses that operated in multiple states and foreign locations with their federal, state, international and accounting for income tax needs.

Ramon Camacho
Principal, Washington National Tax
RSM US LLP

Ramon Camacho advises clients on a host of international tax and capital markets issues, including tax planning and compliance, due diligence and documentation initiatives, restructurings, and tax controversy (including tax shelters), and is the firm’s base erosion profits shifting practice leader. Prior to joining RSM, Ramon spent 20 years serving clients from the national offices of large accounting firms and a large law firm. Most recently, he was the technical tax leader for international and cross-border finance matters at Andersen Tax, LLC. Prior to his work at Andersen Tax, Ramon was responsible for the international tax practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and served clients as part of the international tax consulting group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Ramon’s experience includes four years at the Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel (International), where he acted as an attorney-advisor. He was the team leader on various pricing agreements entered into by international banks and other multinational taxpayers, the principal national office attorney on significant litigation and was responsible for developing trial and technical strategy in tax audit controversy and litigation matters involving international tax and financial products taxation. While at the IRS, Ramon developed and proposed a number of international tax policy alternatives, authored various treasury regulations and acted as a technical adviser to the Senate Finance Committee with respect to the international tax and financial products provisions of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997.
When
2/1/2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where
Online
Registration not available.