Taxation Committee
A.I.M.’s Taxation Committee is by invitation, a 120-plus group
of A.I.M. members focused on legislative and regulatory issues affecting taxation of
businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The group assists
A.I.M. in developing its pro-business legislative agenda and works to
defeat legislation offered by others that would be harmful to the
business climate, costly to the businesses located here or complicated
to comply with or administer.
Members
The Taxation Committee is comprised of tax practitioners, tax
attorneys and in-house tax directors. All the major tax-consulting
firms have a seat at the table.
Format
The Committee meets five times a year. A public official
in the tax arena, such as the Chair of the Joint Committee on Revenue,
addresses the group discussing current tax legislation or other relevant
matters. This presentation is followed by a discussion among
member companies concerning potential issues the committee can work on
collectively, our strategy for moving our agenda forward, a legislative
update by A.I.M. staff and other relevant business. We often
invite the Commissioner of Revenue to join us for the lunch
hour to update us on what is happening at the Department of Revenue
– new TIRs, status of tax revenue collections, trends, or issues
that legislators are inquiring about.
Issues
During the past legislative session, A.I.M. advocated
successfully for making the investment tax credit permanent and for
expanding the research and development tax credit. We fought
legislation to eliminate single sales factor apportionment for
manufacturers and mutual fund service corporations; attempts to shift
more of the property tax burden onto the commercial and industrial
class; efforts to establish combined reporting in this state; and worked
closely with the Department of Revenue to make the Governor’s
corporate "loophole closing" bill less onerous.
A.I.M. Committee Staff
Eileen P. McAnneny,
Esq. staffs the Taxation Committee and has been
with A.I.M. since 1998. She is one of two primary lobbyists
for A.I.M. on Beacon Hill. In addition to covering tax
issues, Eileen is responsible for health care policy at A.I.M.
Prior to joining A.I.M., Eileen served as counsel to the Senate Chair of
the Joint Committee on Taxation for almost four years.
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