President's Notes

GAEA members receive discounts on tax reference books and other materials ordered from CCH.

Currently, CCH is offering GAEA members a 30% discount on the 2011 U.S. Master Tax Guide ( for the next filing year), if ordered by the end of August.

Some CCH products are available to GAEA members at up to 40% off the list price.  During the checkout process on the CCH web site, you may be prompted for the discount "priority code" for GAEA members, which is Y6991.

Here is the link to the discount page: http://cchgroup.com/members/gaea

Chet Burgess, EA

When you order your 2010 Quickfinders and/or Taxbooks, please be sure to use the GAEA discount code to obtain special pricing AND ensure that GAEA receives a fee payment from the publishers.

The Quickfinder discount code is Q565

The Taxbook discount code is 274

Regards,

Chet Burgess, EA

Many thanks to the GAEA members who participated in the online voting to elect new state officers and directors to serve terms from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2012.

Forty-five members participated in the voting.

The new GAEA officers and directors are:

President - Bill Nemeth
Vice President - John Beazle
Secretary - Larry Blair
Treasurer - Margie Havlin

Directors
  Snow Williams
  Henrietta Moore
  Cecil Norris
  Penny Tokash
  Marsha Carter
  Connie Machoudy
  Tibby Llewellyn
  Ben Tallman
  Ned Bishop

The new officers and directors will be sworn in a week from tomorrow during the GAEA business meeting at Jekyll.

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