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Financial service organizations' coordinated effort.


Recognizing the convergence of the different disciplines that make up financial and wealth preservation and planning today, seven major accounting, legal and financial service organizations formed the Synergy Summit, a unified think tank and voice under the leadership of the:

* American institute of Certified Public Accountants' (AICPA's) Tax Section;

* AICPA's Personal Financial Planning Financial planning

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* National Association of Estate Planners & Councils;

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* ABA Tax Section's Estate & Gift Tax Committee; and

* Society of Financial Service Professionals.

The Synergy Summit's purpose is to study, debate and render opinions on appropriate issues of mutual interest. Collectively, the seven organizations listed above represent over 200,000 lawyers, accountants, financial planners, insurance and other professionals. Through the Synergy Summit, these seven organizations bring to their respective members and national policymakers the coordinated thinking and integrated actions of the nation's largest and most influential financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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Information about the Synergy Summit end its constituent organizations is available at www.synergypro.org or by linking from http://tax.aicpa.org/Resources/Trust+ Estate+and+Gift/.

by Eileen Sherr, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. , MT, AICPA Technical Manager--Taxation, Washington, DC
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Publication:The Tax Adviser
Date:Aug 1, 2006
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