Happy New Year and welcome to the Tax Trotter!
The Trotter’s goal is to bring you the insights, analysis and tax news from around the world in a timely, engaging and easy-to-read fashion. Whether you are an employee or an executive of a multinational corporation, an entrepreneur, an investor, a wealth adviser, an asset manager or are otherwise interested in tax and fiscal policy, the Trotter aims to inform and support you. You should expect in-depth weekly posts analyzing all matters tax, breaking tax news bites, monthly or more frequent “Tea with Trotter” podcasts with tax luminaries, weekend “detour” features introducing you to a more entertaining face of tax or things we tax people enjoy in our limited spare time (trust funds for puppies, anyone?) and Proust-style profiles of people in tax and beyond.
What a year 2020 has been! Stock markets running high, travel low, Zoom reigning supreme with the blue light eyeglass filter becoming as popular as the anti-glare… And those of us working from home feeling blessed and yet complaining of cabin fever… Cabin fever swiftly followed by guilt after a run-in with an essential worker (your postman, your Whole Foods cashier, the staff and the drivers at your favorite takeout restaurant, your urgent care nurse practitioner and many others) who has no choice but to interact with the greater world and, therefore, is risking so much more than any of us homebound.
A few specific cases and issues The Trotter is looking forward to in 2021: