Programs feature sessions that support professional, technical, business and personal success. Major industry leaders are featured speakers. Representatives of vendor sponsored consultant relations programs participate. Attendees learn from the experience of their colleagues. Contacts made with peers from across the country can lead to business expansion beyond the local area.
Conferences are fun, too.
We must be constantly alert to government regulations and tax-related laws affecting our industry. The ICCA and its members in key states and Washington, D.C. monitor legislative activity, reporting to the membership regularly on issues that potentially impact small businesses offering technical services. At the state and local level the ICCA has lobbied against tax laws that threaten our industry's independence. In California members influenced favorable decisions defining contractor versus employee status. A guide for doing business as an Independent Consultant Under Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act, written by Jonathan D. Wallace , Esq.