Seminars & Events Archive

State Bar of Texas CLE on "Disaster Preparation: What Happens When the World Changes?"

Captive insurance companies have moved into the middle market, and closely held businesses have learned that captive insurance companies can provide significant insurance benefits and cost savings. Benefits from better risk management provide the business reason to implement a captive insurance company, but a well-designed captive arrangement can also provide tax planning opportunities. The IRS, however, views many captive arrangements skeptically. We will provide an overview of how captives should operate from an insurance and tax standpoint, of the pros and cons of using captives, and of recent court cases discussing captive insurance companies. Presenters: Sebastien Chain and Justin VandenBout

For well over a quarter century, Tax Executives Institute has offered its Audits and Appeals seminar, educating over 5,000 tax professionals in the nuts, bolts and nuance of tax controversy. This year’s program, hosted live in San Francisco and Chicago is oriented as a “hands-on” interactive presentation of issues and scenarios arising from selected facets of the tax controversy lifecycle. In their presentation on preparing witnesses, Chamberlain Hrdlicka tax controversy attorneys Larry A. Campagna and Philip Karter will address a variety of witness interview circumstances, from IDR interviews, to summons testimony to trial depositions. Their presentation will include a discussion of the important distinctions between a taxpayer’s rights in dealing with employee witnesses versus third-party witnesses, the implications of tactical objectives on how the taxpayer approaches the witness interview process, and the ethical considerations in witness preparation.

For well over a quarter century, Tax Executives Institute has offered its Audits and Appeals seminar, educating over 5,000 tax professionals in the nuts, bolts and nuance of tax controversy. This year’s program, hosted live and simulcast in New York City and Washington, D.C., is oriented as a “hands-on” Interactive presentation of issues and scenarios arising from selected facets of the tax controversy lifecycle. In their presentation on preparing witnesses, Chamberlain Hrdlicka tax controversy attorneys Larry A. Campagna and Philip Karter will address a variety of witness interview circumstances, from IDR interviews, to summons testimony to trial depositions. Their presentation will include a discussion of the important distinctions between a taxpayer’s rights in dealing with employee witnesses versus third-party witnesses, the implications of tactical objectives on how the taxpayer approaches the witness interview process, and the ethical considerations in witness preparation.