Year in Review: Yes, We Did (Tax Executives Institute's Role in Advocacy Work and Other Developments‪)‬

What an eventful spring it has been for TEI. The Table of Contents of this issue reflects the breadth of the Institute's technical activities. From congressional testimony on state tax apportionment issues to an amicus brief in a case involving the States' ability to retroactively change the rules governing refund suits, TEI manifested its enhanced role in shaping state tax policy. Similarly, the Institute's continuing work on the harmonization of provincial sales taxes with Canada's federal Goods and Services Tax demonstrated the benefits of persistence: TEI first testified before the Canadian Parliament in favor of harmonization in 1989, and more than two decades later it saw two more provinces--British Columbia and Ontario--take tangible steps in the right direction. Liaison Meetings