Okta
International Tax / Transfer Pricing
Foreign Compliance & Reporting
Indirect Tax
US Compliance & Reporting
100

The two co-founders of Okta

Who are Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest?

100

This TP method is currently used to reduce disavowed deductions under BEAT

What is Services Cost Method (SCM)?

100

Okta's most significant GAAP to Stat adjustment

ASC 606 items, specifically deferred commissions

100

A consumption tax assessed on the value added in each production stage of a good or service

What is Value Added Tax (VAT)?

100

Sec. 174 R&E expenses are capitalized and amortized over _____ and _____ years for domestic and foreign expenditures, respectively, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022.

What are five and fifteen? 

200

Okta's former name

What is SaaSure, Inc.? 

200

In the context of stock compensation, this is a formal agreement between a parent corporation and its foreign subsidiary under which the subsidiary reimburses the parent for the cost of equity compensation.

What is a Recharge Agreement?
200
Okta India's fiscal year end

What is 3/31?

200

The rules determine which country has jurisdiction to charge VAT in a given transaction

What is Place of Supply?

200

Tax expense divided by pre-tax book income

What is Effective Tax Rate?

300

Chloe and Taylor Swift have the same cat

What is British Shorthair? 

300

Beginning with tax year 2018, the TCJA created this new category of foreign income under IRC § 951A, which requires the U.S. owner of a CFC to potentially include a portion of the CFC’s earnings in the U.S. owner’s federal taxable income.

What is GILTI?
300

When a company “holds back” shares to cover taxes and then pays the tax from its own cash reserve. This tax withholding method for RSUs has created additional layers of complexity for computing the UK SBC tax deduction.

What is Net Settlement?

300

Okta is currently registered in these three countries for VAT

What are CA, MY, SA? 

300

Taxpayers can deduct an accrued expense for tax purposes only after the three prong test is met pursuant to Sec. 461(h).

What is fixed, determinable, and economic performance?

400

The two solutions that Okta offers that solve every Identity use case

What are Workforce Identity Cloud and Customer Identity Cloud?

400

Dual consolidated losses generally cannot offset income of a domestic affiliate unless this election is made.

What is Domestic Use Election?

400

Due date for Okta's first GloBE Information Return

When is July 2026? (The GIR is due 15 months after the last day of the relevant fiscal year, extended to 18 months for the first fiscal year).

400

This new tax was enacted shortly after Parliament passed Bill C-59 and Bill C-69, which both received royal assent on June 20, 2024 in Canada.

What is the Digital Service Tax?

400

Taxpayers are required to evaluate discrete items each quarterly reporting period and incorporate them into the total tax expense for the period. Discrete significant items are defined as _____ or _____ items, which may require analysis of the facts and circumstances, as well as the company’s history of similar transactions.

What are unusual and infrequently occurring items?

500
The name of the band that Bill DeFazio plays in

What is 3 Mile Smile?

500

Okta uses this method for determining the arm’s length value of transactions, which can be applied to determine whether its related party transactions are consistent with the arm's length principle. 

What is the Comparable Profits Method? 

500

First country to enact new global minimum tax rules to align with the OECD's Pillar 2

What is South Korea? 

500

By starting to file returns in this jurisdiction, the indirect tax team is planning to recover VAT/GST expense incurred by employees while traveling for business and reimbursed through our T&E process.

What is the UK?

500

ASC 740-10-30-18 identifies four sources of taxable income that may be available under the tax law to realize a tax benefit for deductible temporary differences and carryforwards.

What are

  • Taxable income in prior carryback years if carryback is permitted under the relevant tax law
  • Future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences
  • Tax-planning strategies
  • Future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carryforwards?
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