The TLPC guides and advises on the Tax Division’s interactions with government to maximize the Division’s effectiveness and insure that the Institute’s positions serve the public interest, as well as members’ interests, by:
- Identifying current and emerging issues affecting members of the Tax Section and the entire profession; recommending strategic responses.
- Advocating to Congress important, high priority AICPA tax positions and working to enact them.
- Advising the TEC and the AICPA Congressional and Political Affairs team about tax legislative priorities and tax policy issues and recommending legislative strategies and the lobbying of positions to Congress.
- Advising and serving as a resource for other Tax Division Committees and TRPs on tax legislative developments in their areas of responsibility through regular interaction, consultation, strategic planning, or legislative assistance.
- Maintaining relationships with the Congressional tax-writing committees, the IRS and Treasury to assure that the AICPA’s views on proposed legislation and tax policy are known and properly considered.
- Identifying significant tax policy issues for study, research and development, including studies and analyses of important and enduring tax policy subjects and insuring that current Institute statements and studies are up-to-date and relevant.
- Coordinating Tax Division efforts on tax simplification; overseeing the submission of tax simplification recommendations to Congress and the IRS; and assisting the IRS and the Joint Committee on Taxation in tax complexity analyses.
2010 - 2011 TRP Roster:
| Melbert Schwarz, Chair |
Grant Thornton LLP |
| Thomas A. Stout, Jr., Immediate Past Chair |
KPMG LLP |
| Carol Cantrell |
Briggs & Veselka Co. |
| Alan Clavette |
Clavette, Josselyn & Co. |
| Michael Dell |
Ernst & Young LLP |
| Ed McClellan |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
| Christina M. Morales |
Transamerica Life Insurance Company |
| Pamela J. Pecarich |
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| Roby Sawyers |
NC State University, Department of Accounting |
| Clinton C. Stretch |
Deloitte Tax LLP |
| Jean Wells |
Howard University |
| Brian T. Whitlock |
Blackman Kallick Bartelstein LLP |
| Carol E. Zurcher |
Thomas, Beck, Zurcher & White, P.A. |
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