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Editors:
Dennis Schmidt, Ph.D., CPA
Professor of Accounting
College of Business
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Will Yancey, Ph.D., CPA
Independent Consultant
Dallas, TX
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FiscallyGreen.ca is a website supported by Environment Canada, an official agency of the Canadian government. The site provides information on ecological fiscal reform (EFR) in Canada and around the world. EFR includes reforms or redirections of subsidy, tax credit, and direct expenditure programs, as well as ecological tax reform. Topics covered include tax credits and incentives for land conservation, pollution control, and improving efficiency in fossil fuel consumption. This site and its links provide ideas on current and future environmental tax proposals for the United States and other countries.
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Global Transfer Pricing Survey, a study commissioned by Ernst & Young, is a detailed investigation of corporate taxpayers’ transfer pricing practices, strategies, and audit experiences based on interviews with 850 multinational enterprises across 24 countries. Topics covered in the report include transfer pricing as a risk issue in relation to managing financial statement risk; the frequency of transfer pricing examinations and resulting adjustments by tax authorities; and the importance of transfer pricing as a tax issue.
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GovSpot Tax Center is a nonpartisan information portal designed to simplify the search for online tax resources. The site offers a collection of top government and civic resources, arranged by category, selected by an editorial team based on quality, content, and utility. Categories include reference materials, tools, tax topics, deductions, FAQs, and tax audits.
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Tax Policy Blog is a website sponsored by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization. Most of the blog’s articles are personal views of Tax Foundation staff members. The primary focus is on current proposals and policy studies for federal income taxes, with some articles on foreign, state, and local tax policy. This blog provides a sense of the ideas being discussed by the congressional staff, think tanks, and trade associations.
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Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization (UPPO) is the leading association for unclaimed property professionals who work for businesses holding unclaimed property. Tax, accounting, and law practitioners are dealing with more and more unclaimed property issues. Some UPPO members are employed by consulting firms and some by large businesses with unclaimed property issues. UPPO provides education to businesses on unclaimed property compliance, audits, and voluntary disclosure agreements. The website contains news, member-only information, announcements about UPPO national and regional conferences, and membership information.
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U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Policy assists the secretary of the treasury in developing and implementing federal tax policies and programs. It develops and reviews regulations and rulings to administer the tax code and negotiates tax treaties. It is also responsible for providing economic and legal policy analysis for domestic and international tax policy decisions and preparing reports of tax policy issues mandated by Congress and the president. The website contains links to various reports (including the 2008 Blue Book), congressional testimony, tax treaty documents, tax policy documents, fact sheets on tax policy, and press releases.
