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About the
Taxation Section
Member Benefits
Education Programs and Annual
Meeting
Government Liaisons
California Tax Lawyer
Join the Section
ABOUT THE TAXATION SECTION
The Taxation Section is California's only statewide tax bar
association. The Taxation Section's current membership is
approximately 3,000, and we invite you to join us. The Section
accepts attorneys from other states and non-attorneys as Associate
Members. Associate Members include accountants, financial planners,
pension and trust administrators, actuaries, tax executives,
federal, state and local tax administrators, educators, other tax
specialists, and law students. The Taxation Section has local
committees (the Young Tax Lawyers Committees) throughout California
established especially for tax practitioners with less than 10
years of practice experience.
MEMBER
BENEFITS
Publications:
- Your personal subscription to California
Tax Lawyer.
Discounts:
Opportunity:
- To serve as Committee Officers.
- To interact with other tax practitioners and government
officials throughout California.
- To influence tax policy and legislation.
- To contribute articles to California Tax Lawyer.
- To speak at Taxation Section programs.
- To have the best access to California tax law issues.
EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND
ANNUAL MEETING
The Taxation Section sponsors many educational programs on
timely topics presented by leading practitioners at a reasonable
cost. The subjects range from broad overviews to highly technical
discussions of pressing tax problems.
The Taxation Section presents programs at the
State Bar Annual Meeting, the Annual
Section Education Institute, the
Annual Meeting of the California Tax Bars and many programs
sponsored by its Committees.
The
Annual Meeting of the California Tax Bars a is a weekend-long
gathering of California tax professionals, which each year has
provided over 30 seminar programs sponsored by Committees that
cover the entire range of income, state and local, procedural,
criminal, gift, estate and international tax issues. The seminars
typically include a discussion of the California tax treatment of
the subject (if not already the primary focus) and provide
opportunities in an informal setting to talk one-on-one with
leading tax practitioners and key government officials.
GOVERNMENT LIAISONS
The Taxation Section provides wide access to governmental
officials. It coordinates an annual trip to Washington D.C. with
the Los Angeles County Bar Association. The Washington D.C.
delegation historically has presented approximately a dozen paper
topics each year on substantive and procedural tax issues to
high-ranking personnel of the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S.
Treasury Department, U.S. Congressional committees and the Tax
Court. The Taxation Section also arranges an annual weekend retreat
among high-ranking California tax officials and selected private
practitioners, known as Eagles Lodge
West, to resolve broad or particularly problematic
California tax issues. Additionally, Federal and California
government officials serve as advisors to, and actively participate
as members of the Taxation Section.
CAliFORNIA TAX LAWYER
The Taxation Section publishes
California Tax Lawyer, a quarterly journal that features
articles and reports on topical issues of federal, state and local
tax legislation, regulations and decisions, activities and programs
of local bar associations, programs of the Taxation Section and its
Committees, and other valuable information.
COMMITTEES
The Taxation Section functions largely through its Committees.
Committees address tax issues related to specific tax topics and
tax practitioners. The Committees plan programs, prepare position
papers, and communicate with their members through email, meetings,
newsletters and conference calls. Tax Section members can sign up
for a committee using the
Committee Sign-Up Form. For more information, contact the
Standing Committee Chairs.
The committees are:
Corporate and Business Entities
Estate & Gift Tax
Income / Other Taxes
International Tax
Past Chairs of Taxation Section
State and Local Tax
Tax Exempt Organizations
Tax Policy, Practice & Legislation
Tax Procedure and Litigation
Young Tax Lawyers
JOIN THE SECTION
To join the Section, see Join a Section.
Taxation Section
The State Bar of California
180 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-1369
415-538-2580
415-538-2368 fax
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