2007 Distinguished Service Award

At its annual Spring Tax Division meeting in Denver on June 4, the AICPA Tax Division’s Tax Executive Committee bestowed its Tax Section Distinguished Service Award for 2007
on Justin P. Ransome, a partner in the National Tax Office of Grant Thornton LLP in Washington, DC.

Mr. Ransome chairs the AICPA Tax Division’s Tax Strategy Patent Task Force (PTF) and vice chairs the AICPA Tax Division’s Trust, Estate & Gift Tax Technical Resource Panel (TRP). He is a frequent contributor to The Tax Adviser.

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