Joe Tobin

Joe specializes in transfer pricing controversy and transfer pricing planning, particularly with regard to cost-sharing arrangements. He focuses on clients from intangible-centric industries such as the high-technology industry and the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Deloitte, Joe held several positions at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Chief Counsel (International) Branch 6 (Transfer Pricing) including senior counsel and docket attorney. While there, Joe drafted Treas. Reg. §1.482-7 (2011) Final Cost Sharing Regulations and Treas. Reg. §1.482-7 (2013) Final Cost Sharing Regulations. He was also the reviewer for several high-profile transfer pricing cases and advised the IRS on many transfer pricing audits that went to IRS Appeals.

Joe is a frequent speaker at events organized by Deloitte, American Bar Association, Tax Executives Institute, and National Association for Business Economics. He helped draft comments on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2015 Discussion Draft on Cost Contribution Arrangements and on Notice 2015-54 and the IRC section 367 temporary regulations and IRC section 482 temporary regulations (2015) for United States Council on International Business. He has co-authored articles that have appeared in Transfer Pricing Report and Tax Management International Journal, as well as the Matthew Bender & Company treatise Practical Guide to US Transfer Pricing.

Joe holds a BA in political science and philosophy from Reed College, a JD from University of Virginia School of Law, and an LLM in taxation from New York University School of Law.