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Alexandra Minkovich is a partner in Baker McKenzie's North American Tax Practice with more than fifteen years of experience handling a variety of tax, tax controversy, and legislative and regulatory matters. She also brings significant experience representing clients with respect to domestic tax issues, particularly in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, retail, and manufacturing industries, and is well versed in administrative law. Immediately prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Minkovich served as Associate Tax Legislative Counsel with the US Department of Treasury, Office of Tax Policy. In that role, Ms. Minkovich advised the Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy) and General Counsel regarding tax policy considerations in regulations and Internal Revenue Bulletin guidance, provided advice on tax legislative proposals, and provided litigation advice regarding the validity of Treasury and IRS guidance. She also provided technical comments on tax legislation to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Ways & Means Committee, as well as to individual members’ offices. Ms. Minkovich speaks regularly at seminars and writes on a variety of topics related to legislative and regulatory developments, and administrative law.
In North America

United States: Understanding the 2020 election results and their impacts on tax policy

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As a Presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden announced a detailed and ambitious set of tax policy proposals. President-elect Joe Biden’s tax policy plans, like rolling back several provisions of President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, are potentially derailed given the Republican will control at least 50 Senate seats and possibly 52.

In Canada

North America Tax News and Developments – July 2020

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Read publication We are pleased to enclose the June issue of Tax News and Developments, a publication of Baker McKenzie’s North America Tax Practice Group. This month’s edition features Proposed Regulations on Deductibility of Certain Fines and Penalties and Related Information Reporting Retirement Relief Provisions Accessible to More Taxpayers and…

In Covid-19

United States: Managing supply chain disruption – Recorded webinar

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Contents Global supply chains across many industries have suffered significant supply chain interruption.  There are many business, legal, tax, treasury and other implications resulting from those disruptions.  This webinar analyzes the impact of supply chain issues and address alternatives for efficiently addressing those changes and minimizing potentially adverse impacts.  Additionally,…

In North America

US: The Final Proposed Base Erosion and Anti-avoidance Tax Regulations: A Favorable Turn

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The Treasury Department (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued the highly anticipated final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) implementing the base erosion and anti-avoidance tax (the “BEAT”) on December 2, 2019.  Treasury and the IRS simultaneously issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations” and with the Final Regulations, the “Regulations”).…