TEI calendar for 2005-2006 set: reprises seminars on financial reporting and IRS audits and appeals, plans programs on dividend repatriation, partnerships, and advanced international tax issues.

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Tax Executives Institute's Continuing Education Committee has set the organization's education calendar for the coming year. In addition to introductory courses on state and local, international, and federal tax and its Annual and Midyear Conferences, the Institute will hold six seminars on topics ranging from the new repatriation of dividends provision to partnerships and joint ventures. In addition, a telephone seminar has already been scheduled on the repatriation of dividends (June 16) and a second has been scheduled on the proposed dual consolidated loss regulations (July 27). Finally, beginning in September, TEI will host regular "Third Thursday Briefings" (via telephone or webconference) to address late-breaking, time-sensitive topics.

TEI's Continuing Education Committee chair Mike Boyle noted that the educational offerings for the next year offer an unusually rich and diverse number of topics for busy tax executives. "We traditionally have not held seminars in July," he explained, "but we discerned a pressing need for a program discussing the practical ramifications of the new repatriation provision. Hence, we're having a oneday seminar entitled Bring the Cash Home: Successfully Navigating the Repatriation Provisions of Section 965. Given the time-sensitive nature of the new rules, we believed it important to get this information into our members' hands as soon as possible."

Building upon the success of this year's educational program, Mr. Boyle stated that TEI will repeat two seminars from the current year--a September redux of a highly successful financial reporting seminar and an April program on IRS audits and appeals. "The Federal Tax Committee's financial reporting program held last year," he said, "was an outstanding success, and we committed at the time to hold a second one as soon as possible. In addition, TEI's popular audits and appeals seminar has been a mainstay of our educational calendar for more than two decades." Both these programs may well sell out, he predicted.

New offerings this year include a November seminar on international planning issues and a February program on partnerships, joint ventures, and LLCs. In addition, a seminar focused on...