Reflecting on the Past 14 Months.

• Position: INSTITUTE NEWS

As the Institute starts to see the light at the end of the proverbial pandemic tunnel, we wanted to share some information about what we've been doing to help our members and our chapters get through these trying times.

. In March 2020, we launched the COVID-19 Resource Portal on our website (www.tei.org/news/COVID-19-resource-portal). Visited more than 2,500 times so far, it provides a one-stop shop for links to federal and state/provincial government websites addressing COVID-19 tax issues around the world as well as to our sponsors' COVID-19 information pages.

* Since April 1, 2020, through the Institute's Zoom account, 24 chapters hosted over 1,500 meetings totaling more than 7,083 hours and including 9,500 participants. Additionally, the Institute held more than 230 webinars with 12,000 participants to provide hours of educational content relevant to our members' daily responsibilities. This doesn't include the fifty-five Institute-level webinars put on through our sponsors' virtual programming tools as well as other educational events our chapters held using other tools.

* We hosted our first fully virtual annual conference in October, which included separate tracks specializing in European and Canadian tax issues.

* We welcomed over 500 new members to the Institute...