TEI Meets with Canadian Department of Finance on Excise Tax Questions (Tax Executives Institute‪)‬

In mid-December I had the honor of leading TEI's delegation to four liaison meetings with government officials in Ottawa. These meetings, which date back more than three decades, are a manifestation of TEI at its best. Indeed--and I am not saying this just because I'm a Canadian--our Canadian liaison meetings are a shining example of why in-house tax professionals should become involved in the Institute's technical activities and how, by working together, members of the profession can accomplish more than they could by themselves. They also stand as an illustration that "no one has to do it all." Finally, they represent the embodiment of an effective government-industry partnership. No single person deserves credit for the development and success of the Canadian liaison meetings. Certainly, I don't because the meetings were a mainstay of the Institute's advocacy program when I joined the Toronto Chapter 25 years ago. Rather, they have many fathers and mothers, and what made them valuable at the outset makes them valuable now. They provide TEI members with--