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The State and Local Tax Lawyer endeavors to provide scholarly articles and student notes and comments on topics pertaining to taxation and other information that it believes to be of professional interest to members of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and other readers.

The State and Local Tax Lawyer welcomes the submission of articles written by admitted members of the bar and by other professionals. Manuscripts by candidates for graduate degrees in law (e.g., LL.M. or M.L.T.) will be considered articles if the author is admitted to the bar at the time of submission. Authors interested in submitting an article are encouraged to visit The State and Local Tax Lawyer online for information about current issues, editorial policy, and the Citation & Style Manual.

Although utmost care will be given to material submitted, The State and Local Tax Lawyer cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts. Authors are encouraged to submit articles electronically in the form of an e-mail attachment. Articles submitted as e-mail attachments must be formatted in MS Word. Please use standard formatting and fonts. E-mail submissions should be sent to: Assistant Staff Director, Publications, at taxweb@staff.abanet.org. Please refer to "The State and Local Tax Lawyer" in the subject of the e-mail message. Authors who choose to send their manuscripts by regular mail should send three (3) copies, typewritten and double-spaced, to: The State and Local Tax Lawyer, Assistant Staff Director, Publications, ABA Section of Taxation, 740 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.

The Editorial Board of The State and Local Tax Lawyer reserves the right to accept or reject any article, note or comment and the right to condition acceptance upon revision of material to conform to its criteria. The State and Local Tax Lawyer does not publish material that has been previously published or is scheduled for publication elsewhere. Articles and notes and comments are accepted on the basis of substantive merit, professional interest, appeal to the readers of The State and Local Tax Lawyer, timeliness of the topic, clarity of expression and style. Notes and comments should consist of either analysis of recent developments in tax law or comments on important current tax cases.

Because issues of tax law and policy are frequently controversial, readers of The State and Local Tax Lawyer should understand that opinions expressed in articles and notes and comments are solely those of the authors and may differ from those of the American Bar Association, the Section of Taxation of the Association, the Editorial Board of The State and Local Tax Lawyer, or the Student Editorial Board of The State and Local Tax Lawyer. An article contributed by a public official does not necessarily represent the views of that person’s department or agency unless expressly so stated in the particular instance. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as representing the opinions, views or action of the American Bar Association, or of the Section of Taxation of the Association unless duly approved by the Association or the Section as the case may be.