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AICPA NEWS
AICPA OFFERS MORE THAN
140 RECOMMENDATIONS
TO THE IRS FOR 2019-2020
GUIDANCE PRIORITY LIST

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) recently submitted more
than 140 recommendations to the IRS in reference to its 2019-2020
Guidance Priority List.
The recommendations address tax issues that directly affect
individuals, businesses, and exempt organizations, along with
timely topics such as virtual currency, nonprofit donations, and
distribution of 529 plans, urging the IRS to consider the following
guidelines as part of the process:
■ Use the simplest approach to accomplish a policy goal;
■ Provide safe harbor alternatives;
■ Offer clear and consistent definitions;
■ Use horizontal drafting (a rule placed in one Internal Revenue Code
section should apply in all other Code sections) to the greatest
extent possible;
■ Build on existing business and industry-standard record-keeping
practices;
■ Provide a balance between simple, general rules and more
complex, detailed rules; and
■ Match a rule's complexity to the sophistication of the targeted
taxpayers. ■

AICPA HONORS CPAS IN
INFORMATION MGMT AND
TECHNOLOGY ASSURANCE
AICPA's Standing Ovation, a program that recognizes the best
young CPAs in specialty credential areas, recently honored five
CPAs for their contributions in the areas of information management and technology assurance. The recipients, all under 40,
currently hold the Certified Information Technology Professional
(CITP) specialty credential, and will be recognized on the AICPA
Technology Resource Center website.
The recipients (in alphabetical order) include:
■ Emily Chee, CPA/CITP, CFF, CMA, CISA, CFE - Vancouver, British
Columbia
■ Jonathan Choquette-Riopel, CPA/CITP, MBA - Repentigny,
Quebec
■ Shawn Ford, CPA/CITP, CMA - Richmond Hill, Ontario
■ Ebonie Jackson, CPA/CITP, MBA, CGMA - Holland, Ohio
■ Matthew Treskovich, CPA/CITP, PFS, CMA, CFP, AEP, MBA, CLU,
ChFC, FLMI - Lakeland, Florida ■

AICPA TO
OVERSEE NEW
.CPA DOMAIN
EXTENSION
The American Institute of CPAs
announced that it will be overseeing
the .cpa domain in collaboration with
other global CPA organizations. The new
domain will be available to CPAs and
their firms, signaling a clear connection
to the profession, enabling both firms and
employees to have a website address and
email address that ends with .cpa. More
details about the new domain extension
and how to register a domain name will
be available later in the year, but those
interested can visit https://domains.cpa.
com to sign up for notifications. ■

Kittner Receives
Outstanding Young
CPA Award

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)
recently named Elizabeth Pittelkow Kittner,
CPA, CGMA, CITP, Head of Finance for the
International Legal Technology Association
(ILTA), winner of the 2019 AICPA Outstanding Young CPA Award in Honor of Maximo
Mukelabai.
Pittelkow Kittner is an active member of
the AICPA and Illinois CPA Society, volunteering her time at both the state and national
levels. She currently serves as a member of
the AICPA governing Council and an editorial
advisor for the Journal of Accountancy, and
she previously volunteered with AICPA's
Business and Industry Executive Committee,
Young Member Leadership Committee and
EDGE conference planning committee. She
is the current Treasurer of the Illinois CPA
Society Board of Directors and is active as
a continuing professional education (CPE)
instructor. ■

KESSLER RECEIVES AICPA PFP LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Stuart Kessler, CPA/PFS, recently received
the AICPA's Stanley H. Breitbard Lifetime
Achievement in Personal Financial Planning Award. This is only the third lifetime
achievement award in personal financial
planning ever given by the AICPA.
Kessler is a Senior Tax Director at
CohnReznick in New York, NY, and is
being honored for his role in launching
the AICPA's Personal Financial Planning

Division over 30 years ago as well as his
continued contributions advancing the
profession today. He is also an active
member of both the AICPA and the New
York State Society of CPAs.
The criteria for the lifetime achievement award include 25 years of experience
in financial planning and 15 years of AICPA
volunteer work in personal financial planning. ■

AICPA presents Richard Ward with
P. Thomas Austin Scholarship
The American Institute of CPAs recently
announced that Richard L. Ward, CPA/PFS,
has been awarded the 2019 P. Thomas Austin
Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Scholarship
at the AICPA's Advanced Estate Planning
Conference in Las Vegas.
Richard has been a licensed CPA since
2011, and is president of his own financial
planning firm, Capital Configuration, LLC in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he connects
tax with estate planning, and was specially
selected to attend and represent KPMG USA

JULY 2019 ■

at the 2008 Global Audit Training in Athens,
Greece.
CPAs who have worked fewer than 10
years and have fewer than 10 years estate
planning experience are eligible to be considered for the scholarship which was established
in 2010 to honor P. Thomas Austin, a CPA who
chaired the Advanced Estate Planning Conference for three decades. The scholarship covers
the cost of attending the AICPA's Advanced
Estate Planning Conference, as well as the
related travel expenses. ■

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