Taxation
Ca. Tax Lawyer 2017, VOLUME 26, NUMBER 4
Content
- Bar Business Taxation Section Overview
- California's Cap-and-Trade Bill Enhances Existing Tax Incentive
- Contents
- Internal Revenue Code Sections Dealing with International Disclosure Compliance Should Be Amended to Allow for a Consistent Reasonable Cause Exception, a Consistent Maximum Penalty Amount, and to Require Notice Be Sent to the Taxpayers' Last Known Address
- Masthead
- Minutes from the 2017 Meeting of Eagle Lodge West
- New Bill Clarifies California Tax Agency Administration
- Taxation Section 2017 — 2018 Leadership Directory
- Visiting the Committees
- Message from the Chair
Message from the Chair
By Betty J. Williams
If someone asked me a year ago what my theme would be for my term as the Taxation Section Chair, I would have likely said something about growth. As it turns out, the year has been more about change.
As 2018 quickly approaches, we prepare to be part of the new non-profit entity, unnamed as of this writing, as the Sections separate from the State Bar. In the third quarter of 2017, the State Bar interviewed and retained Pam Wilson & Associates, Inc. to assist the Sections with our separation and retained a law firm, Adler & Colvin, to assist in setting up the Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(6) that will house the Sections.
The Council of State Bar Sections ("CSBS") and some of its working groups continue to hold a variety of meetings each week as we endeavor for a smooth transition away from the State Bar, away from the restrictions associated with Bagley-Keene compliance, and onward to less bureaucracy, more creativity, and a return to the bar, in the traditional sense—the year-long ban on alcohol at meetings will no longer apply.