Monday, May 11, 2009

Bad lunch

Had lunch today with the Tax Director of a major bank. One of the local partners insisted on accompanying me "to show the local face of the firm". Bloody disaster!

Uninvited partner kept pushing TD to let the firm do their domestic tax returns - notwithstanding the fact that they have 4 tax managers doing the job for them already. He wasn't impressed by partners insistence that local firm has such good contacts with the local revenue authorities that favourable assessment is a formality. So little social skills and she left early for "conference call". TD says he would love to have lunch again provided I don't bring irritating partner again. 


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