BLOG

2018 EMMA AWARD FOR TAX PROVIDER OF THE YEAR!

May 29, 2018

By The Expat Tax Professionals Team

Share this article

EXPAT TAX PROFESSIONALS WINS PRESTIGIOUS 2018 EMMA AWARD FOR TAX PROVIDER OF THE YEAR!

We are immensely proud to announce that Expat Tax Professionals has won this year’s FEM EMMA Award for Tax Provider of the Year!

On Thursday May 24, 2018, we were announced as the winner of this year’s Americas Expatriate Management & Mobility Award (EMMA) in the category of Tax Provider of the Year at a gala dinner at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego, California.

The EMMA awards are arranged by the Forum for Expat Management (FEM), the worldwide global mobility and expat services community hub, which honors excellence in the expat management and global mobility industries.

Ephraim and Josh receiving the 2018 Emma Award presented by Judge and Presenter Laura Rodriguez, Global Director, Talent Mobility at Johnson & Johnson.

According to FEM’s press release on the event, Claire Tennant-Scull, the Head of Content at FEM said:

“The FEM EMMAs really are the gold standard awards for the global mobility and international HR industry. They are the only truly global, yet region-specific awards with the greatest breadth of categories for both corporate professionals and service providers.”

“EMMAs entries are rigorously judged by a team of fiercely impartial, highly experienced, senior figures in the industry, who are drawn from a range of disciplines across the Americas region and who give up their own free time to carry out a very thorough and demanding process. So these awards carry tremendous kudos. It’s so important to receive recognition among your peers for innovation and hard work and so I think the winners and all those on the shortlist should feel extremely proud.”

This year the FEM EMMAs saw entries across 25 categories, and the independent judging panel made up of industry experts remarked on the high standard of the entries. Judged against a strict set of criteria, the competition for this award was fierce.

The judges’ comments on our firm’s entry included:

“I like the customer orientation, particularly the focus on certain communities that may not have access to tax expertise in their circumstances.”

We are honored and gratified that the EMMA judges recognized the unrelenting efforts of our entire team at Expat Tax Professionals to provide the very best tax services that meet the specific needs of traditional and emerging U.S. expat communities.

As our firm has grown, we’ve grown to understand that while expats expect a high-quality service, including complete and accurate filings (as they should expect), tremendous value is added when convenience is provided as well. Because we know that expats lead busy lives and taxes are often the last thing on their minds, convenience means much more than an online filing process. Convenience means an easy tax extension process and helpful reminders to provide information to ensure filings are done on time. It means a highly informational website and monthly newsletters with high-level bullet-points covering the latest relevant tax news.

Convenience means the availability of consulting with an expert to discuss any issue from choosing a category of filing, to considering the advantages and disadvantages of expatriation, to foreign pension or trusts, FBAR, FATCA, company structuring, and anything else on the taxpayer’s mind. In more involved and sensitive cases, it means the leveraging of experience with the IRS to ensure the best filing options are available to our clients.

These and other methods are how we reshaped what can be a long, arduous, confusing, and expensive process into an experience that is positive and rewarding.

We’ve come to understand that while mastering technical nuances are important, clients benefit the most from a service that is tailor-made for their circumstances, even on a community level. This is why, as we move forward, we will continue to try to identify communities of taxpayers within the expat public that will benefit from our specific focus on them.

More from our experts:

CASE REVIEW – COURT CONSIDERS IF TREATY NONRESIDENT HAS FBAR REQUIREMENT

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California tackled the issue of whether a taxpayer is required to file an FBAR if he has the status of a non-US tax resident by virtue of the tie-breaker provisions of a tax treaty.

CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING – A TRAP FOR THE UNWARY EXPAT

In this week’s blog, we focus on corporate restructurings, which are ripe for misunderstanding and complacency, given that the foreign company rules in the US and in your country of residence can be significantly at odds.

OUR APPROACH TO AN EFFECTIVE RENUNCIATION

In this blog, we review the tax and reporting implications of renouncing one’s citizenship and abandoning one’s green card. We then describe how our firm can help you navigate the process. We include a case study involving real facts, so that you can fully understand our approach and the services we offer.

CASE REVIEW – COURT CONSIDERS IF FOREIGN TAX CREDITS CAN REDUCE THE NIIT

In this week’s blog, we review a recent intriguing decision, in which the U.S. Court of Federal Claims tackled the issue of whether a tax treaty can be used to allow a foreign tax credit to offset the net investment income tax.

Contact us to get started