Originally published: February 2024
Happy 29 February! It only happens every 4 years. It also the end of the month. Here is what happened in the tax world in February 2024.
Top posts:
- Work from home PEs? (https://lnkd.in/evDYg_rB)
- Don Draper and TP on synergies benefits (https://lnkd.in/ekRd2BG8)
- International tax research topics (https://lnkd.in/eaf_QPCc)
News:
- Amount B guidance is out (https://lnkd.in/eDadDBM2)
- US gets a further delay of DSTs from AT UK FRITES (https://lnkd.in/eesKE8Gp)
Tax technical sideroads:
- 2024 overview on remote work PEs in PE Watch (https://lnkd.in/e2pZzbDz)
- TP concentrates R&D in developed countries (https://lnkd.in/ew3PY6JW)
- OECD is Shot By Both Sides (https://lnkd.in/en9w3kGC) and Stuck In The Middle With You (https://lnkd.in/eTyN6hqE)
- Webcast on P2 in IFRS accounts (https://lnkd.in/erb4_sWi)
- Sad but true: “nothing else” matters in Australia (https://lnkd.in/ehz3stBd https://lnkd.in/eD6seSXF)
- Cato Institute’s solution to tax problems: abolish CIT (https://lnkd.in/e5D4HuH6)
- Career advice: Smooth Operator & the “In-Crowd” (https://lnkd.in/e9MUAM-Y)
- Orientalism in Rossini’s Tancredi (https://lnkd.in/eQH9E2-Q), Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (https://lnkd.in/e47DZXE6), Gilbert & Sullivan’s the Mikado (https://lnkd.in/etGzMhUy) in classical music (https://lnkd.in/eBvYdfeM)
Music: like most outsiders, I first learned about Brazilian music through bossa nova. But Brazilian music c. 50 years ago was much wider as there’s a continuum of quiet nostalgia in bossa nova, samba, brega, tropicalia and many other styles, all captured in the term MPB: música popular brasileira. I dug deeper this month and noticed MPB’s use the weather, the seasons and the elements of nature as metaphors of how events beyond our control can shift our life suddenly in new directions. This month’s playlist (https://lnkd.in/eb5ZGHUq) explores this further.
We begin with the start of March with Águas de Março (Regina and Jobim) which uses many natural metaphors to portray the end of summer rain of March, hinting your life will change too. We move to metaphors of the sea with Maia, Nunes, Caymmi, 14 Bis, Santos and Jobim, before Regina delves in dried autumn leaves and Caymmi considers the wind. Winter ends with Manhãs de Setembro (Vanusa), spring rain (Maia, Ben Jor), a replenishing earth (Nunes, Buarque), more water (Marlene, Gilberto) and spring sun (Aquino, Guedes). Summer starts (Bamdamel, Roupa Nova) with rain again (Carvalho, Veloso) and then sun (Legião Urbana, Cartola). If you’ve made it this far, get swept off your feet by Milton Nascimento’s Tudo Que Você Podia Ser, which feels like a swelling hot summer day. Finally, the fire dies out (Maria) as summer gives way to January (Monteiro) and February (Os Orginais Do Samba). By then, you’ve come circle and you can press play on the Águas de Março to start a new cycle again.
Obvious disclaimers: this is not advice. These views are my own and do not necessarily represent my employer.
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