TEI Holds Liaison Meetings.

Led by President Charles W. Shewbridge, III, members of Tax Executives Institute met on February 22 and 23 with Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti and other IRS representatives, Assistant Secretary Jonathan Talisman and other Treasury Department officials, and Chief of Staff Lindy Paull and staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. TEI's delegation to the annual liaison meetings included its senior officers, members of the Executive Committee, and the chairs or vice chairs of the Federal Tax, International Tax, and IRS Administrative Affairs Committees.

The two-day meetings in Washington focused on IRS modernization, legislative initiatives concerning corporate tax shelters, regulatory developments, and several studies recently released by the Treasury Department and the Joint Committee staff. The TEI representatives also held a separate meeting with Larry R. Langdon and Deborah Nolan, Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the IRS's Large and Mid-Size Business Division, to discuss the upcoming roll out of that division.

TEI's agenda for the meeting with the IRS is reprinted in this issue, beginning on page 54. The agendas for the Treasury and Joint Committee staff meetings will be reprinted in the next issue of The Tax Executive.