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This month’s update includes information about Arizona’s legislative session, recent political fundraisers, an Internal Revenue Service meeting, a legislative and Accountancy Board presentation at the Society’s Accounting & Assurance Conference and an update from this month’s Accountancy Board meeting.

This month’s update includes information about legislative update presentations, practitioner feedback on the Taxpayer First Act, a thank you to Congressman David Schweikert, letters in support of conformity in 2020, political fundraisers and an update from the Accountancy Board meeting.

This month’s update includes information about an Arizona Capitol Times award, changes to our Tax Legislation Committee members, an update from the Accountancy Board meeting, political fundraiser details, a possible peer-to-peer car-sharing app regulation and a reminder of this month’s CPE license renewal deadline.

This month's letter talks about the new ASCPA logo and what the "starburst" signifies, as well as the new changes in the House of Representative's surroundings.

This month’s update includes information about a meeting with the Arizona Department of Revenue and an announcement on their new director, political fundraisers, the Society’s outreach to Congressional representatives and an update from last month’s Accountancy Board meeting.

Although early predictions for a downturn in 2019 have not come true, industry leaders are planning for the unexpected while hoping for the best. Results from the 2019-2020 Arizona CFO Spotlight Survey published in Septemberindicate a strong focus on operational efficiency, reputation management, and talent planning. The fourth annual Survey was developed by BeachFleischman PC in collaboration with Pinnacle Plan Design, LLC, BOK Financial, Financial Executives and Affiliates of Tucson (FEAT), Phoenix CEO-CFO Group, MOD Ventures, LLC, and Contempo HCM — with survey development and support from Ingenuity Marketing Group, LLC.

The U.S. government’s balance sheet indicates that, over time, the nation has an accumulated deficit (from annual shortfalls) of $21.5 trillion[1]. To put that in perspective, if you made a stack of 21.5 trillion $1 bills, you would be able to go to the moon and back more than three times.

This month’s update includes information about a podcast with the Arizona Department of Revenue, an announcement of our new director of government relations and an update from last month’s State Board of Accountancy Annual Meeting.

This month’s update includes information about the Tax Legislation Committee meeting, members who assisted Senator Sinema with tax legislation, an update from last month’s State Board of Accountancy meeting and a reminder on this month’s CPA license renewal due date.

This past May, at the conclusion of the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council, several hundred CPAs from across the nation met with Members of Congress to ask them to support consolidating existing IRS units into a Practitioner Services Division so that taxpayer issues are more efficiently resolved.