Los Angeles Chapter Recaps Year.The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Chapter began the fiscal year with its monthly dinner meeting September 30 at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica. Randolph F. LeVan, Jr. of Conexant Systems, Inc., 1998-1999 Chapter President, offically passed the gavel gavel small mallet used by judge or presiding officer to signal order. [Western Culture: Misc.] See : Authority to Patrick J. Ellingsworth of ARCO. Chapter's 1999-2000 Full-Day Seminars The chapter continued its successful seminar program by sponsoring four full-day seminars, having average attendance of more than 100. * September 24, 1999 Arthur Andersen: Lowering Your Effective State Income Tax Rate: Planning Ideas, Implementation, and Pitfalls * November 16, 1999 PricewaterhouseCoopers: Tax Accounting Periods and Methods and Federal Tax Issues Update * March 17, 2000 Deloitte & Touche: Current Developments in Consolidated Returns and M & A Tax Planning Tax planning Devising strategies throughout the year in order to minimize tax liability, for example, by choosing a tax filing status that is most beneficial to the taxpayer. * May 12, 2000 Ernst & Young: International Taxes Joint IRS/TEI Meeting On January 11, a joint IRS/TEI meeting coordinated by Institute Director Dan Laksfoss of Litton Industries, Inc. was attended by 30 representatives of the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. and corporate taxpayers. Ed Mieszerski, International Branch Chief and LMSB LMSB Large and Mid-Size Business Transition Coordinator, discussed the IRS reorganization and its effect on large and midsize taxpayers. There followed round table discussions of the various implications of the IRS reorganization. IRS Annual Liaison Meeting The Chapter held its Annual Liaison Meeting on February 10 with representatives from the Los Angeles and Southern California Districts of the Internal Revenue Service. Chapter President Patrick Ellingsworth of ARCO gave an overview of the goals, members, and structure of TEI 1. (communications) TEI - Terminal Endpoint Identifier. 2. (text, project) TEI - Text Encoding Initiative. . IRS District Director Steven Jensen (Los Angeles) and Large & Mid-Size Business Field Operations Director Mary Tapley provided an update on the IRS reorganiztion. Jon Goodman, Executive Director of EC2 and Director, Distance Learning, Annenberg Center for Communications at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , made a presentation on the changing economic landscape in Los Angeles. Past Presidents' Party A highlight of the summer of `99 for the Chapter was the Past Presidents' Party on August 14. The fifth annual gathering brought 17 past presidents, their spouses, and Timothy McCormally from TEI's national office to the home of 1986-1987 Chapter President Jose Deetjen and his wife, Leonor. |
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