about ERIC P. TURNER, PLC

Mr. Turner’s sophisticated tax & business expertise has developed over a multi-faceted 25+ year career with extensive U.S. and international planning, transactional, documentation & compliance, financial/accounting (ASC 740/FAS 109/Fin 48), and audit/controversy experience. His professional experience includes senior in-house positions with several global Fortune companies (General Motors & Glaxo), a big 4 accounting firm (Coopers & Lybrand) serving as a Director of International Tax & Transfer Pricing, the IRS National Office (Chief Counsel – International), a major global law firm (Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone), and a prestigious clerkship at the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Turner’s academic credentials include a B.A. (Economics and Political Science) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with both the Highest Honors program degree and the highest Academic University Award (Iron Shield Society), plus a Trewortha Scholarship; a J.D. from Emory University, graduating in the top 25% of his class while working for the US Treasury’s National Bank Regulatory Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; and a LL.M. (Taxation) from Southern Methodist University where he graduated 1st in his class.

Mr. Turner is admitted to the Michigan, North Carolina and Florida bars.

ERIC P. TURNER, PLC

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Senior International Tax Counsel to General Motors Corporation overseeing the global transfer pricing affairs, international tax planning and international tax audits for almost a decade;
Director of International Tax & Transfer Pricing for Coopers & Lybrand’s Chicago center of excellence office for the central United States;
Senior Tax Counsel to Glaxo, Inc. (now GlaxoSmithKline), as the 1st in-house tax counsel Glaxo had anywhere in the world;
Senior Tax Counsel & Director of Tax Planning for NCR (and later Teradata) including the 2007 tax-free spin-off of Teradata (TDC: NYSE), an Ohio-based enterprise data warehouser with operations in 50+ countries and $2 billion in annual revenues and implementing a sophisticated and complex global tax structure which resulted in a significantly lower global effective tax rate and successfully defended it for FAS 109/Fin 48 purposes; and
Senior Counsel in the international and Federal tax practice of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, a Detroit based 500+ attorney global law firm.

GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE

Senior Attorney at the IRS National Office (Chief Counsel – International) in Washington, D.C., as the IRS’s expert for 7+ years on a wide variety international tax and income tax treaty matters and first lead attorney to its Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) transfer pricing rulings program. Extensive transfer pricing experience, chaired a competent authority task force and authored Rev. Proc. 91-23, governing competent authority proceedings; and
Senior Attorney-Advsior to Judge William Goffe of the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C., as part of a two-year federal clerkship.

about ERIC P. TURNER, PLC

ERIC P. TURNER, PLC

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE

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