The presentations and discussions during the ALAS Advisory Group event on October 6-7, 2014, generated substantial interest in training for state auditors in skills and methods for identifying issues concerning related party transactions as they conduct corporate tax audits. The Commission has therefore decided to host, through its existing training program, an early course on this subject for states in the first quarter of 2015, and is soliciting proposals from interested firms to deliver an in-person training course on related party transactions. The training objective is that, at the end of this course, a student will be able to identify issues involving related party transactions that require further analysis, to suggest additional information needed from taxpayers related to the issues, and to recommend to supervisors the analytical support—legal, technical, and economic—needed for the agency to address the issues.
Please submit your proposal by December 31, 2014, to Gregory S. Matson, Deputy Executive Director, Multistate Tax Commission, 444 North Capitol Street, N.W., Suite 425 Washington, D.C. 20001 (electronic submission via email is preferred).