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Tailor your Section membership to your practice!

Eligible Section of Taxation members may enroll in any committee, excluding those committees to which members are appointed by the Section (marked with * below). Please keep in mind that active participation is expected from committee members. No additional subscription fee is required for committee membership. Please contact the Section office at (202) 662-8670 if you have inquiries.

Section of Taxation Committees

Administrative Practice	Investment Companies
Affiliated and Related Corporations	Low Income Taxpayers
Appointments to the Tax Court*	Membership and Marketing*
Banking and Savings Institutions	Nominating*
Bankruptcy and Workouts	Partnerships and LLCs
Business Cooperatives and Agriculture	Pro Bono
Capital Recovery and Leasing	Professional Services
Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties	Programs and Meetings*
Closely Held Businesses	Publications
Committees*	Real Estate
Corporate Tax	S Corporations
Court Procedure and Practice	Sales, Exchanges, and Basis
Distinguished Service Award*	Simplification*
Diversity	Special Projects*
Employee Benefits	Sponsorships*
Employment Taxes	Standards of Tax Practice
Energy & Environmental Taxes	State and Local Taxes
Estate and Gift Taxes	Tax Accounting
Exempt Organizations	Tax Exempt Financing
Fiduciary Income Tax	Tax Practice Management
Financial Transactions	Tax Shelters*
Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers	Teaching Taxation
Foreign Lawyers Forum	Technology
Formation of Tax Policy	Transfer Pricing
Government Relations*	U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties
Government Submissions*	VAT & Other Consumption Taxes
Individual and Family Taxation	Young Lawyers Forum
Insurance Companies

*Restricted membership committees

Section of Taxation Task Forces
Foreign Tax Credits
National Disasters Task Force
Tax Strategy Patenting Task Force

Committee Leaders

Please download and review the following documents:

Internal Revenue Code Committee Responsibility Lists by Code Section and by Committee
The revised Guidelines for Important Developments

Need to submit comments for your committee? Go to the online COGS Manual.

Join a Committee

To join a committee, you must first be a member of the Section. ABA members can join the Section immediately by using our online Section Enrollment Form. you will need your eight-digit ABA member ID number and your password (usually your last name) to reach the form.

If you do not know your ID number, contact the BA Service Center at service@abanet.org.

You can also join by calling the ABA service Center at (800) 285-2221; by fax to (312) 988-5528; or,by mail to: Membership Department, American Bar Association, 321 North Clark Street, Chicago IL 60610

Committee meeting materials from past Section meetings (dating to May 1999) are available on the website via .