Our telecommunication pros have years of consulting experience to help you with your organization’s unique needs and circumstances. We offer a broad range of services, including rate and bundle design, affiliate transactions, business valuation, and diversification, among many others. We also can compile and benchmark data from hundreds of similar entities, which means we can provide you with best practices and trends relevant to your operations.

Need help implementing lease accounting standards? We’ve got you covered. BKD’s comprehensive three-part solution can help you implement lease standards with ease. BKD LeaseVision can use artificial intelligence (AI) and other tools when appropriate to extract key lease terms from various lease types, a road map to help provide an in-depth process framework, and an Excel template to help perform calculations and develop lease amortization schedules.

BKD annually prepares thousands of tax returns for individuals, various types of businesses, trusts, and tax-exempt entities. We also provide a variety of tax planning and consulting services.

BKD assists the telecom industry with:

• Income Taxes
  BKD has an experienced team of tax professionals in communications including broadband grant recognition, ARU revenue deferments, and planning for depreciation elections related to your fiber, central office, and circuit equipment to help reduce taxes.
• Excise Taxes
  BKD’s telecom tax team can help you navigate the details of applying excise taxes to customer billing for local billing and defining whether a service is or isn’t applicable with today’s rapidly changing technology in delivering communications services.
• Cooperative Taxes
  Telecom cooperatives have a very unique challenge in reporting taxable income. Our tax professionals have expertise in a cooperative’s member 85 percent gross receipt and can provide guidance in the structuring of a cooperative to help meet your goals of providing the best results for your members. BKD understands the complexity of patronage and nonpatronage sources of income and can work with you to find the best direction for your cooperative to navigate to.
• Property Taxes
  BKD’s team of property tax professionals works with telecom companies to find ways to help reduce property taxes across many states, particularly where assessments are based on a market capitalization approach, using factors such as income and equity methodologies

At BKD, our state and local tax professionals can help you through the challenging tax world. Whether you do business in one state or several, you know how difficult state income, franchise, and property taxes can be.

BKD assists the telecom industry with:

• Federal Universal Service Charges
  Our SALT professionals can help you work through the challenges in applications of taxes to things such as federal universal service charges (FUSC), special circuit and fiber lease charges, and interstate and intrastate jurisdictional allocations.

Are your defenses strong enough to withstand a cyberattack? We can help remedy weaknesses in your systems or respond to a breach if you've already been hit by hackers.

BKD Technologies can help you improve your business with software solutions. Whether you're selecting a new system, implementing it, or maintaining it, our advisors have the expertise and resources to assist your company's digital transformation.

IT reviews, risk assessments, and compliance reviews can help your organization ward off cyberattacks and stay on track with required guidelines. Take a closer look at how we can help.