Key takeaways
Host: Shannon Blankenship, principal, Deloitte Tax LLP
Presenters: John Wall, director, IRS Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement (APMA) Program
Darrin Litsky, managing director, Deloitte Tax LLP
Kirsti Longley, managing director, Deloitte Tax LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Taxes
Transfer pricing controversies still abound. When might multinational businesses consider APAs and MAP to help mitigate transfer pricing risk and what is changing in the US APA and MAP landscape? In this Dbriefs webcast, participants will hear from the acting director of the APMA Program. We’ll discuss:
- New APA processing procedures
- Forthcoming updates to the APA and MAP revenue procedures
- Country-specific APA and MAP updates
- Additional issues that can be addressed in the APA program
Meet the speaker

Kirsti Longley
Kirsti specializes in representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in advance pricing agreements (APA) and mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases. Kirsti is a member of Deloitte’s National APA and MAP Group. She has extensive experience in US-India APA and MAP cases and has been the lead representative before the IRS in over 60 US-India MAP cases and participated in the first US-India joint APA site visits between the US and Indian Competent Authorities. Kirsti has authored numerous alerts and articles on the APA and MAP process. Kirsti has provided transfer pricing advice internationally having worked in Washington DC, London, and New Zealand. She holds a post-graduate diploma in professional accountancy and a Bachelor of Business Studies, majoring in accounting, from Massey University in New Zealand.
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