TAXCONNECTIONS - Key Persons
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- Topics: Tax Policy / View All Courses
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- Senior Director, Tax Accounting Methods & Credits
Brian Paul Coddington provides compliance, consultation, and audit representation services in the areas of tax accounting methods and credits. Mr. Coddington has represented taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service in matters involving LIFO inventory methods, Uniform Capitalization ("UNICAP"), cost segregation, and research credit claims. He has represented clients before the I.R.S. National Office in numerous Accounting Method Changes. Mr. Coddington began his career at Source Advisors where he oversaw all tax technical research and provided technical support services, including audit representation, to all tax offerings. He then worked at a Big 4 firm in a national projects group that specialized in Federal inventory tax matters. In 2011 he became sole practitioner advising in the areas of tax accounting methods, research credit, and fixed asset issues. He is a frequent CPE presenter. Mr. Coddington is an Enrolled Agent, is a mediator in the state of Texas, and has pursued additional studies at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law.
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- Topics: Tax Policy / View All Courses
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- Senior Managing Director
- Senior Managing Director at Source Advisors
Greg is Senior Managing Director at Source Advisors where he is responsible for key client relationships and strategic development for the firm. Prior to the Source/Bedford merger, Greg was founder and Managing Partner of Bedford, having successfully established the firm as a recognized industry leader, guiding Bedford to the completion of more than 14,000 Cost Segregation studies, covering a wide range of property types and sizes. Combining experience in development, construction and engineering for more than four decades, Greg has a broad understanding of the commercial real estate industry, ranging from project conceptualization through construction and asset management. A graduate of Dawson College, Greg has also completed specialized real estate studies at the University of Texas at Arlington and Loyola University's Sellinger School of Business in Baltimore, MD. Greg is a Certified member and first president of the American Society of Cost Segregation Professionals (ASCSP), a nonprofit professional organization, where he has served as a member of the Board of Directors, Technical Standards Committee, and Testing Committee.
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- Mechanical Engineer
- Managing Director, Energy Services
Imran joined Source Advisors in 2010 and is currently the Senior Director of Energy Services. Imran is a mechanical engineer by trade and has more than 15 years of experience in sustainability and energy-efficient buildings and is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.). He is also a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), HERS Rater, ENERGY STAR partner, and NABCEP PV Associate. Imran holds a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
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- Vice President of Compliance
Jeff Baldwin is the Vice President of Compliance and Consulting for Thompson Tax and is based out of our Chicagoland. He has over 15 years of sales and use tax experience, which includes specialties such as sales and use tax research and review, the preparation of taxability matrices for diverse projects, strategizing and preparing voluntary disclosure agreements, and conducting tax analysis reviews for reverse audit refund claims, to name a few.
As CEO, Luke is ensuring that GovGrant is taking its place as the UK's largest specialist provider of IP services and R&D tax relief helping our clients commercialise innovation. He has a real and practical understanding of the challenges facing innovative businesses today.
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- Partner
- Partner / Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP
Mr. Cohen is a partner and one of the founders of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. He has been practicing law since 1981, and from 1975-1978 practiced in public accounting. Mr. Cohen's focus is on a business and tax practice, concentrating on the representation of closely held businesses and wealthy individuals, business structuring and estate planning.
A major part of Mr. Cohen's practice also involves educating other business and tax professionals. He was the co-author of the monthly "Partner's Perspective" column that accompanied the CCH Partnership Tax Planning and Practice Guide for its entire term of publication (1987-2020) and was the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Passthrough Entities for the entire term of its publication (1998-2019). In addition, since its inception in 1987, Mr. Cohen has been the co-creator and a faculty member of the annual Partnership, LLC & S Corporation Tax Planning Forum, co-sponsored by the Illinois CPA Society. The Forum is an intensive tax planning seminar for professionals, offered both virtually and in person. Forum participants engage in in-depth discussion with the presenters about recent developments and strategies and leave with up-to-date knowledge of cutting-edge tax and business planning techniques. And since its inception in 1996, Mr. Cohen also has been the co-creator and a faculty member of the annual "Fundamentals of Flow-Through" Partnership, LLC & S Corporation Tax Seminar.
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- Topics: Real Estate / View All Courses