Improving Tax Law
Members of the firm not only apply the law to the needs of clients - we also seek to influence the design of those laws. On more than one occasion, firm members have identified problems in existing laws and have made suggestions for changes. In early 1999, for example, Blair Dwyer made several submissions to the federal government suggesting that a person should be able to effect an income-tax-deferred transfer of assets to a trust established for the exclusive benefit of that person and his or her spouse. In December of 1999, the federal government released the joint spousal and alter ego trust rules, which included many of Blair's suggestions.
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