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Past Tax Events

11/15/07Tax 40th Anniversary Dinner

On this very special occasion, we will look back at our beginnings, recognize our founding leaders and faculty, thank our long-time professors, celebrate our graduates' successes, thank our supporters, encourage our 2007 students, recognize our program's strengths as they are today, and aspire to our promising future. Please join us to toast our school on Thursday, Nov. 15!

Location: Carnelian Room, 555 California Street, 52nd Floor, San Francisco, CA

Time: 5:30-9 pm

9/20/07Tax Career Fair
3-5 pm (3-4 pm MS Tax Only)
Room 5310 (Fifth Floor Auditorium)
536 Mission Street, San Francisco
9/18/07San Francisco Tax Expert Lecture Series
Pension Protection Act of 2006
Speaker: Edward Frueh
12-1:30 pm
536 Mission Street, Room 5310 (Fifth Floor Auditorium), San Francisco
12/12/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Stock Options Backdating: Update

Presented by:
Michael Vinson, Assistant Professor, Golden Gate University

7/25-7/27/07Day Tax Orientation
9-5 pm
Room 5310 (Fifth Floor Auditorium)
9/22/06Tax Career Fair

This year's annual career fair hosted by the School of Taxation was yet another great success with 34 firms from private and public industries both large and small, representing the entire Bay Area. Thank you to all the firms who participated and to the many students who attended.

»2006 List of Participating Firms
9/12/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Hedge Funds and Taxation of Investments

Presented by:
Seth Blackman, Paul Kangail and Navin Sethi, Rothstein Kass
5/16/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
FIRPTA Implications to Foreign Investors in US Real Estate

Presented by:
Brian Rowbotham, Rowbotham & Company LLP

* Brian Rowbotham's presentation eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
1/10/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Payroll Tax Implications to LLC and S Corporations

Presented by:
David Hardesty, Markle Stuckey Hardesty & Bott
eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
12/13/2005San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Hot Topics in Section 1031 Exchanges

Presented by:
Lou Weller, Deloitte & Touche LLP eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
11/17/2005San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Tax Enforcement - Current Developments in
Federal and California Audit Priorities and
Defensive Tools and Techniques

Featured panelists:
Charles Rettig, Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, PC
Steve Sims, California Franchise Tax Board and
Sheryl Stokes, IRS territory manager eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
11/4/2005Mock Interview Luncheon

Day Tax Students Luncheon with Various
Firms in the Field of Taxation

Friday, November 4, 2005
10/31/2005How to do Your Best in an Interview

Presented by:
Gerald Barbo & Frederic Sroka, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Monday, October 31, 2005
10/28/2005San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Ethics in Taxation: A Historical Overview

Featured panelists:
Frederic Sroka, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and
Joseph Walsh, Professor, School of Taxation eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
10/18/2005Selling the Image

Presented by:Jane Baczynski, Novogradac & Company LLP
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
10/6/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Diamond is Not Forever — The New Service Partner Regulations

Featured panelist:
Daniel Raiskin, Raiskin & Revitz
9/16/05This year's annual career fair hosted by the School of Taxation was an enormous success with 31 firms from private and public industries both large and small, representing the entire Bay Area. Thank you to all the firms who participated and to the many students who attended.

» 2005 List of Participating Firms
9/8/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Family Limited Partnerships and Valuation Issues

Featured panelists:
John Hartog, tax attorney and a member of California Trust & Estate Counselors (CALTEC) and
Mark Vorsatz, CPA and tax attorney, founding member and CEO of Wealth and Tax Advisory Services
5/20/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation and New 401(k) Developments

Featured panelists:
Tonie L. Bitseff, Robert K. Buchanan Jr., Alison E. Wright, Amiram J. Givon, Michael Sladky, Edward A. Frueh
2/02/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Tax Shelters: Their Impact on Our Society, Economy and the Tax Profession

Presented by:
Larry Langdon, partner and director or Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLPs Global Tax Practice and former senior IRS official

Larry Langdon is a former IRS commissioner of the large and mid-size business division and former vice president, Taxes at Hewlett Packard. Langdon is currently partner and director of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLPs Global Tax Practice. Langdon will discuss how tax shelters impact us today.
12/15/04Seattle Technical Expert Lecture:
Analysis of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Featured panelists:
David Coffman at Coffman Legal, PLLC; Paul Loveridge, Managing Member at Blume, Loveridge & Co., PLLC, CPAs; Gregory R. Roer, Shareholder at Roer & Co., Inc., P.S., CPAs; John J. White, Jr., Partner at Livengood, Fitzgerald & Alskog, PLLC

Chaired by Professor Joseph Walsh, Golden Gate University School of Taxation

» Seattle informational flyer
12/11/04Los Angeles Technical Expert Lecture:
Analysis of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Featured panelists:
William K. Norman, Esq. of Ord & Norman; Charles P. Rettig, Esq. of Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C.; Stanley R. Smiley, Esq. of Financial Network Investment Corporation

Chaired by Dean Mary Canning, Golden Gate University School of Taxation

» Los Angeles informational flyer
12/9/04San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Analysis of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Featured panelists:
John Brogan, Partner at Stonefield Josephson; Walter Kolligs, Principal at Ernst & Young LLP; Jim Tod, Senior Tax Manager at Deloitte; Jim Henderson, Associate Professor Golden Gate University School of Taxation

Chaired by Professor Joseph Walsh, Golden Gate University School of Taxation

» San Francisco informational flyer
10/28/04The fourth in a series of technical expert lectures:
Partnership Updates
Presented by Daniel Raiskin and Belan Wagner
Chaired by GGU School of Taxation Professor Joe Walsh

Daniel Raiskin's presentation:
* New IRS ruling addresses small partnerships
* New proposed regulations on partnership basis rules
* New regulations for partnership basis adjustments
* New revenue ruling shocks the experts
* Partnership provisions in the 2004 Tax Act

Joe Walsh's presentation:
* Seminar Outline
* Partnership Tax Update
9/17/04Tax Career Fair:
The 2004 annual career fair hosted by the School of Taxation was a huge success with 24 firms, both large and small, representing the entire Bay Area. Thank you to all the firms who participated and to the many students who attended.

» 2004 List of Participating Firms
9/16/04The third in a series of technical expert lectures:
Recent Developments in Family Limited Partnership Litigation
Presented by tax experts Kyle Martin and Joseph Stemach

» September 16 Informational Flyer

Kyle Martin's presentation:
* FLP Cases
* Estates Unit in Cincinnati 866-699-4083
Estates Unit handles extension questions as well as billing and refund issues. They cannot handle legal or other tax issues.

Joe Stemach's presentation:
* Estate and Gift Tax Audit Issues as Viewed by a Former Estate & Gift Tax Attorney
2/25/04The second in a series of technical expert lectures:
California Taxation Updates

» California Taxation Updates
» PowerPoint Slides (pdf)
1/29/04The first in a series of technical expert lectures:
Pass Through Entities Updates

» Update: Pass-through Entities

PowerPoint slides:
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