Tax Elections: Beware of the Minefield 2024

Arthur Dellinger, CalCPA Education Foundation

Arthur J. (Kip) Dellinger, Jr., CPA, provides services as an expert in the areas of CPA tax practice regulatory discipline and malpractice matters. This includes his engagement by Big 4 CPA firms as an expert pertaining to conduct matters and substantive technical issues in several tax shelter malpractice cases. Mr. Dellinger also represents clients in tax controversy matters and provides services to tax counsel in criminal and civil tax proceedings. He has written over three-dozen articles and is a nationally recognized speaker in the areas of tax standards, tax procedure and substantive estate tax matters. He is also a Policy Perspectives columnist for Tax Notes magazine. Mr. Dellinger is a past-Chair of the AICPA Tax Division’s Tax Practice Responsibilities Committee and is the author of the Practical Guide to Federal Tax Practice Standards (CCH, 2007). He developed and teaches full day courses on Tax Practice Standards, Conduct and Quality Control for California CPAs, FIN 48: Uncertain Tax Positions and Quality Control in a Tax Practice for the Education Foundation of the California Society of CPAs. Mr. Dellinger has spoken before the U.S.C. Law School Institute on Federal Taxation, the AICPA National Tax Conference, the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute, the Illinois Society of CPAs, the Florida Institute of CPAs, the Tennessee Society of CPAs and the California Tax Bar. He is also frequent speaker before other CPA and tax attorney conferences, meetings and discussion groups.