United States – Tax and Transfer Pricing Expert Authors

Amanda Varma advises clients on US federal income tax matters, with particular focus on international tax planning and controversies.

Her practice includes counseling domestic and foreign businesses with respect to cross-border acquisitions, business restructurings, and financings, tax treaty matters, deferral and foreign tax credit issues, transfer pricing, and withholding and reporting issues.

She also regularly advises clients on special issues arising in international tax controversies, including competent authority and information exchange. Ms. Varma also represents clients in connection with regulatory and legislative tax policy matters.

Dr. Ednaldo Silva is Founder & Director of RoyaltyStat, a leading online database of royalty rates extracted from unredacted license agreements filed with the SEC.

He is an economist with over 25 years of experience in transfer pricing innovation and the valuation of intangibles.

Dr. Silva helped draft the US transfer pricing regulations as Senior Economic Adviser in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. He was the originator and developer of the “comparable profits method” and introduced the best method rule and the concept that arm’s length is represented by a range of results. Dr. Silva was also the first economist in the IRS's Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) Program.

Julie Martin is the founder of MNE Tax. She edits the publication and regularly contributes articles on new developments in cross-border business taxation.

Julie has worked as a tax journalist and editor for more than 13 years. Prior to that, she worked as an in-house tax attorney in New York. She also holds an LLM in taxation from New York University School of Law.

Julie can be reached at [email protected].

Jennifer Crawford is a Director in True Partners Consulting’s Tampa office and is part of the national Tax Process and Control Advisory Services team.

Jennifer helps clients improve their tax functions by evaluating current processes, determining best practices and implementing effective control procedures.

Jennifer received her Bachelors of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Robert M. Gordon specializes in the taxation of complex domestic and international transactions, M&A, joint ventures, and general federal tax planning. Mr. Gordon frequently speaks to professional and business organizations and is active in the American Bar Association‘s Tax Section.

He received his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Law Review.

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