Oklahoma Tax Institute

Chris Kuehl

Dr. Chris Kuehl is a Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence. He provides forecasts and strategic guidance for a wide variety of corporate clients and business organizations around the world. He is the economic analyst for several national and international organizations.

Joshua Jenson

Joshua Jenson has over 25 years of public accounting experience in the area of tax, specializing in LLC, partnership, S corporation, and related individual tax matters. He is managing partner of Jenson & Company, CPAs, P.C., which he founded over 25 years ago. His firm is known for a boutique service approach, with a focus on tax planning and strategies. Joshua is a member of the Oklahoma Society of CPAs (OSCPA), the Oklahoma City Chapter of the OSCPA, and the American Institute of CPAs. He is a past Chairperson of the Educational Foundation and is a public speaker for the OSCPA. Joshua received the 2014 Distinguished CPA Award from the OSCPA in recognition of his involvement in the community and activism in the accounting profession. JJ the CPA has over 81,000 subscribers and over 6.6 million views on his YouTube channel “JJ THE CPA,” and is heavily represented on social media, with daily postings, including daily videos released on everything dealing with money. He is licensed in Oklahoma and Texas. Joshua graduated from Abilene Christian University with an accounting degree in 1993, and is a licensed CPA in Oklahoma and Texas.

Tony Nitti

Tony is a Tax Partner in the Private Tax group of Ernst & Young’s National Tax Department, where he chairs the S Corporation subgroup. Throughout his career, Tony has focused primarily on income taxation of individuals and S corporations, with a special focus on the reorganization provisions, including the structuring of acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, spin-offs and other restructuring transactions.

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Tony ran the national tax groups of two large regional firms. Tony is a prolific author, having published dozens of feature articles for The Tax Adviser, Taxes Magazine, Tax Notes, the Journal of Accountancy and Accounting Today. In addition, since 2012, Tony has been a featured tax writer for Forbes, where his column has a national following in the hundreds of thousands.

Tony teaches S Corporation Taxation at Golden Gate University’s Graduate Tax Program and is a member of the AICPA’s S Corporation Technical Resource Panel. Tony has authored many articles about S corporation taxation, including “S Corporation Shareholder Compensation: How Much Is Enough?” published in the Tax Adviser in July 2011, and “Determining the Taxability of S Corporation Distributions Parts I and II,” published in 2014.

Mel Schwarz

Melbert E. (Mel) Schwarz – Mel is a Director - Tax Legislative Affairs for Eide Bailly. He has over 39 years of experience in the world of tax legislation in Washington, D.C., including 6 years spent on the staff of the Joint Committee of Taxation. He specializes in the implementation of recently enacted legislation with a focus on business credits and incentives. During his time with the Joint Committee on Taxation, he participated in the development of numerous incentive provisions, including advanced energy and research credit legislation. He is a past chairman of the Tax Legislation Committee of the AICPA and a former member of its Tax Executive Committee. He received his B.A. from SMU, his J.D. from the University of Michigan, and his Masters in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas.

Jason Shultz

Jason Shultz is the Partner of Innovation at HoganTaylor LLP and operates within the Strategic Services Department of the Firm. He is the Executive Director of myPortal.team, a proprietary, accessible-anywhere, document transfer and storage portal. He also serves as a Board member of Momentum3, LLC. HoganTaylor and Momentum3 formalized a partnership to bring custom software, products, and digital solutions to the middle market, a market which has not historically had access to these tools.

Mark Neumeister

Mark Neumeister, CPA, CGMA, is a partner at Arledge, P.C. in Edmond. An OSCPA member for more than 25 years, Neumeister has served on the OSCPA’s Continuing Professional Education, Business Valuation/Forensic & Litigation Support, Small Firm Practitioners and Taxation committees. A frequent speaker on tax topics, Neumeister has presented on a variety of tax matters to such groups as the OSCPA, Oklahoma Tax Institute, Tax Executives Institute, Committee of Oklahoma Tax Accountants, and other groups. Shortly after Oklahoma enacted the Oklahoma Pass-through Entity Tax Equity Act of 2019, Neumeister was quickly recognized as a thought leader and frequent speaker on the implementation, including immediate election options, and interpretation of the new statute. His seminars on the new law were attended by more than 800 CPAs, lawyers and tax practitioners.

Bruce McGovern

Bruce McGovern, JD, LLM, is a member of the faculty at South Texas College of Law Houston, where he also serves as director of the school’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. Previously, he served for many years as the school’s vice president and associate dean for academic administration. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, his law degree from Fordham University School of Law, and an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he taught as a visiting faculty member before joining the faculty at South Texas College of Law Houston. Professor McGovern is a member of the Council of the State Bar of Texas Tax Section, a former chair of the Houston Bar Association Section of Taxation, and a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.

Adam Sweet

Adam Sweet, JD, LL.M., leads pass-through entity consulting for Eide Bailly. He has extensive knowledge in partnership tax, including interpreting partnership agreements, allocation and distribution provisions and issuing compensatory equity. Adam is also experienced with both the buying and selling sides of domestic and foreign joint ventures, tax credit partnerships and a variety of IRS controversy matters. He also leads Eide Bailly’s Opportunity Zone working group.

Jesse Chapel

Jesse Chapel, JD, LLM, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Oklahoma City University School of Law and obtained an LLM in taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In June 2018, he joined Hartzog, Conger, Cason & Neville and practices in the areas of taxation, estate planning and corporate law. Chapel has been named a rising star in the field of taxation by Super Lawyers.

Tony Mastin

Tony Mastin, JD, is widely considered a leading authority on tax policy and state and local tax issues. He focuses his practice on advising individuals, high net-worth families, tax-exempt organizations, and businesses of all sizes on planning matters involving state and local taxation (SALT), including sales and use taxes, multi-state taxation, SALT controversy work, and federal income taxation. Tony joined McAfee & Taft in 2019 following his retirement from the Oklahoma Tax Commission after 35 years of service, including 12 years in which he served as its executive director. Over the course of his career at the OTC, he also served as an attorney in the General Counsel’s office, deputy director of the Motor Vehicle Division, deputy director of the Business Tax Division, and director of the Tax Policy and Research Division. As executive director from 2007 – 2019, he was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the agency, serving as its legislative liaison, and assisting in the proposal, drafting, review and analysis of tax legislation. On the national level, Tony played an active role in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP), a nationwide effort by state and local governments and the private sector to simplify and modernize sales and use tax collection and administration. That effort led to the development and implementation of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Upon initiation of the SSTP in 2000, Tony served as the Oklahoma delegate for the project’s State and Local Advisory Council (SLAC) and was a member of its steering committee, served as scribe on the original drafting committee, and was also a member of the Compliance Review and Interpretations Committee and the Issue Resolution Committee. In 2017, The Federation of Tax Administrators honored Tony with the Harley T. Duncan Award for his sustained and significant service to state tax administrators.

Ashley Plyushko

Ashley Plyushko, CPA, is the Executive Directo of the Oklahoma Accountancy Board. Here rise to the sate board is the culmination of a career across government, both municipal and state. Graduating from Oklahoma Baptist University with a degree in history and political science, she had a brief stint at the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She then landed at the Office of Management and Enterprise Services as a budget analyst in the Statewide Budget Division. There she started her foray into state finance and her CPA journey. She achieved her goal of becoming a CPA in 2017 and moved to the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma, to work as the Assistant Finance Director. After three years and promotion to Finance Director and City Treasurer, she felt the pull of the state and returned to OMES where she served as the State Chief Financial Officer.