The European Union turns 50 years old on March 25, 2007. Most businesses recognize the EU and the US as the two major trading blocks in the world economy with trade relationships that form the backbone of many of the largest global businesses.

This webinar is an introduction to the European Union from the perspective of an American transaction tax professional. Directed at individuals who are new to VAT practice, this session will explain the fundamental differences between the European Economic Union, the Monetary Union, and the Customs Union.

Aside from introducing the audience the two newest members of the EU, Romania and Bulgaria, this webinar will explain how American businesses structure commercial relationships in light of basic VAT principles. We will examine why an American firm would consider selling through an EU branch, and why distance sales through digital mediums might be preferable in other instances.

Attendees will learn:

* How Taxware Enterprise, the ADP Taxware global engine, is an effective tool in calculating transaction taxes
* How Taxware Enterprise makes compliance an easier task for tax departments
* How Taxware Enterprise facilitates global transaction tax planning for US multinational businesses.

Richard Ainsworth - Director of Government Affairs at ADP Taxware
Richard Ainsworth is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Richard has an LLM in taxation and 25 years of experience in U.S. Federal and State taxes, combined with a significant international exposure as the Deputy Director of International Tax Program at Harvard Law School and as a Fulbright Professor of American taxation at the Osaka and Kyoto Universities, Japan. He is currently a lecturer on VAT in the LLM program of Boston University (School of Law) and a Visiting Professor of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.

Jill Grenier - Tax Counsel at ADP Taxware
Jill Grenier is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. A member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, she has a BA from Boston College and a JD from Suffolk University Law School. In addition, Jill is proficient in French.

Li-Huan (Joyce) Lin, MBA, BBA- Senior International Tax Associate at ADP Taxware
Joyce Lin is primarily responsible for indirect tax research in Asia and the Asia Pacific region, where her language skills allow her immediate access to government officials and original tax law resources. She is also responsible for overseeing value added tax research in several European and African countries. Joyce has more than six years of experience in the fields of tax research and management consulting in Asia and United States. She is multi-lingual, fluent in Chinese Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English.

Lana Menn- Lead, Tax Research at ADP Taxware
Lana Menn holds a B.S. in Accounting the Kiev Institute of Economics, Ukraine and has performed graduate work in Finance at Harvard Extension School. Lana has 25 years of practical experience in tax, accounting, finance and ERP systems implementation and usage. She is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.

Julia Owen - International Tax Counsel at ADP Taxware
Julia Owen has over 8 years of international transactional legal experience advising clients on various aspects of corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, tax, customs, and corporate reorganizations. Julia received her JD from Moscow State Law Academy, an LLM from the University of Pittsburgh Law School, and an MA cum laude in Foreign languages from Kostroma State University, Kostroma, Russia. She is fluent in Russian and German.

Chris Potter - Tax Counsel at ADP Taxware
Chris Potter is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States District Court- District of Massachusetts, and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Chris has a BA in History from Holy Cross and a JD from New England School of Law.

ADP Taxware webinars feature ten full minutes of Q&A towards the end of the program. So you'll have ample time to submit your questions to this expert panel. As always, any questions that we don't get to answer "on the air" will be answered via email in the days following the webinar.