I'd like to focus on lawyers, since the impact on them has come up.
My fellow members from all parties have brought up the issue of deferred billing.
Situations in which lawyers defer sending out their bill do arise, for example, when a court case has not been settled, a decision is pending, or it was agreed that the client would be billed only in the case of a favourable outcome. Those strike me as good reasons to keep the preferential treatment in place. Am I wrong?