Ashnee Maharaj

Ashnee spent 3 years in Ernst & Young’s Dallas international tax compliance group departing as a tax senior then worked 1 year in Kinko’s international tax compliance group. In 2005 she joined Celanese Corporation as a tax senior and worked on federal and US international tax compliance and provision. In 2008 she left Celanese, founded Arion Consulting LLC, and began working as an independent contractor. Over her career she has experience in the following areas:

Tax Compliance – preparation and review of forms 5471, 8865, 8858 and 1120 using OneSource Income Tax, OneSource WorkFlow Manager and CorpTax.
Earnings & Profits study – analysis of financial statements and local country tax returns for multiple years for multinational manufacturing and sales companies in the Dallas area.
FAS 109 (ASC 740) – review of quarterly subpart f income calculations, section 956 inclusions, and imputed interest computations.
Process Improvement – streamlined international tax compliance process by developing standardized workpaper indexes, checklists and templates for a multinational technology company.

The Team

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Kyle Bibb

Kyle was the lead Dallas International Tax Partner at KPMG from 1994-2005. He spent 6 years as accountant/advisor with the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress. Kyle has also worked as Senior International Tax Planning Director for Burlington Resources, Inc., Conoco-Phillips, Inc., and Hunt Oil Company. In 2007, he started his own International Tax and FAS 109 consulting practice under the name KBibb, LLC. He works with large multinational companies, CPA firms and law firms, all over the state of Texas and adjoining states, on various international tax and FAS 109 matters. He is also a featured speaker at seminars around the country on international tax and FAS 109 matters for Bloomberg BNA.

Tim Murray

Tim started his career at EDS Corporation working there for 10 years, 9 of them in the international tax group. He worked at Ernst and Young for 11 years and left his role as an International Tax Executive Director to start WalkWater Consulting LLC in 2006. Through WalkWater Consulting LLC Tim has provided international tax consulting, compliance, and tax provision services to multinational companies and individuals. Experience includes:

Tax Compliance – preparation and review of Forms 1118, 5471, SS-4, and 8832 in addition to statements and attachments to Form 1120 (e.g., 368, 351, 355, etc.).
E&P / foreign tax credit / OFL / 861 studies – technical analysis and modeling including SG&A G/L analysis and XLS reconciliation;
FAS 109 / APB 23 / FIN48 – review of client-prepared annual and quarterly tax provision documentation;
Transfer Pricing – identification of interviewees, performing and documenting interviews, creation of databases and models using information from the interviews, and creation of transfer pricing documentation. Projects have included analysis of headquarter services charge-outs and general CPM analysis;
Technical research and analysis on various international tax issues;
Outsourced international tax function – interim international tax director or overall "outsourced" international tax function;
U.S. and foreign audit documentation support – working with clients to document technical positions including analysis of data and creation of supporting documents

Tracy Rather

Tracy started her career and spent 4 years in Ernst & Young’s Dallas international tax consulting group. She moved to and spent 6 years at KPMG where she was promoted to International Tax Senior Manager. In 2006 she joined TXU Corporation as the manager in charge of TXU’s FAS 109 process. Since 2009 she’s been providing international tax consulting, compliance and provision assistance to various multinational companies. Tracy’s large engagements have included:

Earnings and profits study and related international tax compliance for a Dallas-based multinational company;
Earnings and profits and tax basis study for a Dallas-based multinational company;
FAS 109 process review for a client in order to overcome its material weakness rating;
Tax Stream FAS 109 software implementation for a large multinational oil company located in Dallas;
Tax basis balance sheet development and true-up for a large utility company.