8th Annual Conference
Tax Executives Institute - New York Chapter
LMSB Financial Services Industry
October 28 & 29, 2008
The Sheraton New York Hotel
811 Seventh Avenue, New York, N.Y. (at 53rd Street)
To register, please use the following link: https://www.acteva.com/go/teiny
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
8:00 - 8:45
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Registration and continental breakfast
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8:45 - 9:00
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Welcome and Open
- Walter L. Harris, LMSB Financial Services Industry Director
- Iris Schneider, Tax Executives Institute Chapter President
- Paul Heller, Tax Executives Institute, Past President, NY Chapter
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9:00 - 10:00
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Remarks: Industry Director Walter Harris
Financial Services Industry Director Walter Harris discusses current state of the industry and vision for future.
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10:00 - 10:15
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Break
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10:15 - 12:00
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US Withholding Agents
Designed for a wide audience covering the issue for anyone with international activities. Hear the latest information about withholding agents, which include major corporations and multi-national companies outside of the financial service community.
- LMSB Representative
- Carl Cooper, Attorney, Assistant Chief Counsel, International
- John Sweeney, LMSB Counsel
- John Staples, Burt, Staples & Maner
- Laurie Hatten-Boyd, KPMG
- TEI Moderator Paul Heller
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12:15 - 2:00
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Lunch
Keynote Speaker: Frank Ng, Commissioner, Large and Mid-Size Business Division
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2:00 - 3:00
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International
Deputy Commissioner Barry Shott and others discuss international issues including:
- Transfer Pricing
- International Treaty Administration
- Competent Authority Process
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US Withholding Agents
- Barry B. Shott, Deputy Commissioner (International)
- Chuck Larson, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Commissioner (International)
- Doug O'Donnell, Director - International Treaty Administration
- Kathy Robbins, Director of Field Operations (Financial Services)
- James Gannon, Deloitte Tax
- Marc M. Levey, Baker & McKenzie LLP
- TEI Moderator Steve Rogozinski
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3:45 - 5:15
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Compliance Strategies, Trends & Focus – Panel Discussion concerning Transaction of Interest Regulations, Listed Transactions, Compliance Assurance Process, and FIN 48 and Tax Accrual Workpapers Policy of Restraint.
- Paul DeNard, Deputy Commissioner LMSB (Operations)
- Mike Baldasaro, Ernst & Young
- Ken W. Busey, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Tom Wharton, Tax Executives Institute
- Arthur Bailey, Steptoe & Johnson
- TEI Moderator Lisa Cappell
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5:30
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Reception
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Continental Breakfast 8:15-8:45 AM
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8:00 - 11:45
(coffee break 10:15-10:30)
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Industry Breakout Sessions
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Banking
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Tier II issue - Accrual of Interest on Non-Performing Loans
Tier II issue - Interchange and Merchant Discount Fees
Section 265(b) - including discussion of newly published regs. if published by October
Foreign Banking:
Revised Form 1120F
Source Rule Definitions
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Panelists:
- Jeffrey Kammerman, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Shelley Mitchell, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Vincent Guiliano, LMSB Counsel
- Chuck Wheeler, Alston & Bird
TEI Moderator
- Kenneth W. Busey, PricewaterhouseCoopers
TEI Moderator - Paul Heller
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Insurance
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Life Insurance:
- Life Insurance Securitization
- New Life Insurance Products
- Life Settlement Transactions
- International Reinsurance Transactions
Property and Casualty:
-Homogeneity is it needed?
- Cell Captive update
- Excise Tax update
- Warranty update
- Reserve margins for adverse deviation
- ID companies required to file as insurance companies, HMO warranty and others
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Panelists:
- Mary Sordi, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Anna Petinova, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Gerald Bell, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Steve Henson, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Charlie Maurer, LMSB Counsel
- Joseph Long, LMSB Counsel
- Sheryl Flum, Branch Chief, Financial Institutions & Products
- J. Howard Stecker,
SMART Business Advisory and Consulting
- Peter H. Winslow, Esq., Scribner, Hall & Thompson
- TEI Moderator – Lori Matulewicz
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Securities
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- REMICs
- Section 475 Mark to Market
- REITs
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Panelists:
- Sherri Kenyon, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Steven Henson, LMSB Technical Advisor
- Nicole Cammarota, LMSB Counsel
- Accounting Firm
- Steven Rosenthal, Ropes & Gray
- Jeffrey Callender, Deloitte Tax
TEI Moderator –
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International Topics
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- Fin48 and Intersection with Transfer Pricing
- Fin48 and Intersection with IFRS
- US Withholding Agent - Peeling the Onion a Little More
- Arbitration - Germany, Belgium and Canada
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- LMSB Panelists
- Ronald Harvey, KPMG
- TEI Moderator - Steve Rogozinski
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12:00 noon
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Lunch
Keynote Speaker: Don L. Korb, IRS Chief Counsel
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2:00 - 2:30
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Office of Professional Responsibility
Chan Yu, Senior Attorney, OPR
Cono Namorato, Caplin & Drysdale
TEI Moderator – Robert Levy
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2:30 - 4:30
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LMSB Industry Issue Focus
- LMSB Industry Panelists: Lavena Williams, Director Field Operations; Communications, Technology & Media
- Deborah Nolan, Ernst & Young
- David Robison, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
TEI Moderator – Thomas Wharton
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(rev. 9/4/08)
Registration Fee for the two day program and all meals is $700 thereafter. Please register at https://www.acteva.com/go/teiny.
For more information, contact: Paul Heller at paul.heller@rbccm.com, Steve Rogozinski at steve_rogo@hotmail.com, or Robert Levy at robnewcity@verizon.net.
IRS and other government employees interested in attending should contact Louise Kaminskyj at Louise.Kaminskyj@irs.gov.
If you have specific questions that you would like to be considered by the panelists during the conference, please email them to Paul Heller at paul.heller@rbccm.com.
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