Bloomberg BNA Live Events

Bloomberg Tax and Grant Thornton are convening tax, finance and economy executives around the country for high-level, executive dinners on the current political, policy and regulatory environments. The executive dinners aim to guide business executives through policy shifts coming out of Washington, including the economy, trade and tax reform, with a peer-to-peer exchange of ideas and best practices. The conversations focus on operational actions businesses should consider during the continuously changing landscape.

The executive workshop aims to provide insights to business leaders on how tax reform and trade could impact California’s economy and its dominant technology sector. 

We’ll examine the effect of federal tax reform and other economic tailwinds on California’s economy and how it could spur the state’s own tax overhaul. Will federal tax cuts unleash new investments and entrepreneurship at the heart of the world’s capital of innovation?

The technology industry, a clear beneficiary of global trade, and California, a top exporter, could be at risk from U.S. protectionist trade policies. We’ll discuss the repercussions to California’s economy and tech sector if the administration makes good on its threat to withdraw from NAFTA and impose tariffs after walking away from TPP.
We’ll conclude with an interactive panel discussion featuring a chief executive and tax experts to discuss how leadership can best leverage the opportunities and navigate the economic challenges of tax reform and thrive in an uncertain global trade system essential to maintaining U.S. technology supremacy.

Future Ready Business: Washington Impact is a yearlong programming series presented by Bloomberg Tax with Grant Thornton. Our goal is to help you separate business signals from the political noise. With hundreds of reporters and editors tracking the Washington policy process, Bloomberg BNA covers every detail that matters to your business and provides the in-depth analysis that helps you understand the implications. And with nearly 100 years of business advice, Grant Thornton is your partner for converting insights into strategy and advantage.

Bloomberg Tax, a leading resource for legal, tax and business information, invites business owners, tax, finance directors, in-house counsel, bankers and investment professionals including PE & hedge fund managers to learn how employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) can provide more than just an exit strategy – they may be an opportunity for a growing business and its employees.

ESOPs are commonly used by owners seeking to retire, but beyond that their utility is not well understood. However, with tax reform and in today’s changing business environment there is a greater opportunity to consider them earlier in the lifecycle of the company. ESOPs, when properly done, can position a company for financing, allow for acquisitions, help attract and retain top talent in a competitive environment and create wealth for owners and employees. In addition, ESOPs have a unique application with alternative firms & business roll-ups.

These benefits require an understanding of what conditions should exist before pursuing an ESOP as well as the impact of the 2017 Tax Act and consideration of the best approach for your company.

Financial statement practitioners face imminent deadlines to meet new lease accounting rules issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). All companies are likely impacted, but especially companies with substantial equipment or real estate leasing operations will likely have their work cut out for them to comply with the standard’s requirement to establish a right of use asset and lease liability. According to a 2017 Bloomberg Tax poll, approximately 54 percent of corporate executives are concerned about implementing the standards by its effective date.

Join Bloomberg Tax and Deloitte & Touche for Lease Accounting Standard: A Way Forward, convening chief financial officers, controllers, financial accountants, auditors, analysts, and other accounting professionals for a discussion on the challenges, breakthroughs, and potential regulatory changes in the new lease standard.

This interactive conversation will provide insight on:

• How to apply the lease standard in real-world situations
• Understand what C-suite executives need to know
• Strategies to engage internal stakeholders

Join us June 6 and 7 in Washington, D.C. for the 8th Annual Bloomberg Tax and Baker McKenzie Global Transfer Pricing Conference. The Global Transfer Pricing Conference series brings together top government and regulatory officials, policy makers, senior practitioners from large multinational corporations, and leading industry experts to provide insight and analysis on the high level trends impacting transfer pricing in the coming year.

Over the course of the two days you’ll learn about the transfer pricing implications from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. We’ll address how government officials plan to implement the new law, how companies are adjusting their transfer pricing strategies, and how the reduced corporate tax rate could impact other countries and WTO rules.

In addition to a deep-dive on the impact of U.S. tax reform, we’ll also address the OECD’s work on financial transactions, key developments in taxation of the digital economy and expert insights and analysis on key transfer pricing issues including BEPS, country-by country reporting, attribution of profits to PE’s, APA’s, the MLI and more.