The ISBA Federal Taxation Section will present sessions of its 2005-06 Federal Tax Conference on Friday, Jan. 27, at the Chicago Athletic Association, and Thursday, Feb. 16, at The Illinois Education Association, Springfield.

Moderator for the Law Ed seminar if section council vice chair Thomas Vasiljevich of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Chicago. The schedule follows.

9 a.m. – Individual Income Tax Update, with Richard M. Colombik of Richard M. Colombik & Associates, Itasca.

9:45 a.m. – Internal Revenue Service Liaison Update, with Katie Beard of Springfield, senior tax specialist for IRS Taxpayer Education and Communication.

10:50 a.m. – Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Update, with section council past chair Kelli E. Madigan in Chicago and council member Joseph P. O'Keefe in Springfield. Both are with Mathis, Marifian, Richter & Grandy, Belleville.

11:30 a.m. – Review of 2005 Tax Legislation, with section council member Donna F. Hartl of Field & Golan, Chicago.

12:20 p.m. – Question and Answer Ses-sion.

12:35 p.m. – Luncheon and update by a congressional staff member from Washington, D.C.

1:30 p.m. – Fundamentals of Fiduciary Income Taxation, with section council member Thomas J. Pauloski of Chicago.

2:20 p.m. – Tax Practice and Circular 230: Practitioner's Perspective, with section chair Thomas F. Arends of Richard M. Colombik & Associates, Itasca.

3:10 p.m. – Recent Developments Regarding Retirement and Welfare Benefit Plans, with Thomas Vasiljevich.

3:50 p.m. – Tax Procedure and Admin-istrative Update, Collections, Offers in Compromise and Bankruptcy Legislation, with section council member William F. Marutzky of Freeborn & Peters, Chicago.

4:45 p.m. – Question and Answers.