Featured Speaker

Mr. Dustin Shaffer

Dustin joined the Firm in February 2007. His primary disciplines include tax compliance, consulting for closely held businesses and high wealth individuals and/or individuals who are business owners. He also specializes in large corporate tax compliance and tax planning, accounting period and methods issues, audit representation in income tax audits, tax provision (ASC 740) calculations and consultation with respect to accounting for uncertainty in income taxes (FASB interpretation No. 48). He works with closely held entities as well as publicly traded companies.
 
Prior to joining Montgomery Coscia Greilich,, Dustin spent a year at Neiman Marcus as an income tax manager; four years at KPMG, LLP as a senior and staff in the Federal Tax Services group; and two years at Arthur Andersen, LLP as a Staff in the Federal Tax Services group.
 
At Neiman Marcus, Dustin was in charge of managing the income tax compliance and ASC 740 processes as well as initiating tax planning opportunities both internally and with external tax advisors. While at KPMG and Andersen, Dustin was involved in large corporate federal and state compliance and consulting, large partnership compliance and consulting, IRS representation, accounting method change implementations, and the management of multiple clients in all aspects of Federal, state/local and international compliance. Dustin also spent time consulting on ASC 740 for numerous clients.
 
Currently, Dustin’s clients operate in the high technology, manufacturing, retail and private equity investment sectors. He also works with multiple individuals who are business owners.