City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro Taxes: Practitioner Perspectives (2 hours - late morning) – NEW! – Webcast
Overview
Join experienced local practitioners for their practical perspectives on the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro Taxes, including compliance requirements, apportionment, pass-through entity considerations, and interaction with other tax programs. Practitioners will offer their perspectives on tax planning and strategies for these tax programs, insight into potential future developments, and suggestions for communicating with clients. This program will cover the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro business and personal tax programs.
Highlights
- Background on each of the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro personal and business taxes and detailed discussion of compliance and filing requirements.
- Detailed review of the new apportionment rules, effective January 1, 2023.
- Review of apportionment for business activity within and outside of the district.
- Net operating losses, pass-through entities, and other carry-forward items.
- Best practices for owner K-1 reporting and multi-tiered entities.
- Passthrough entities and interaction between the personal and business taxes.
- Planning opportunities, pitfalls, and strategies.
- And much more!
Prerequisites
Familiarity with federal, Oregon, and local income tax laws, concepts, vocabulary, and returns. Basic familiarity with the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro Taxes.
Designed For
CPAs and professionals involved in preparing and reviewing City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro Business and Personal tax returns and advising clients on these tax programs.
Objectives
Enables participants to develop a deeper understanding of the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Metro Business and Personal tax programs, understand compliance considerations for clients with businesses or residences in these districts, and best practices for practitioners to plan for and advise clients on these taxes.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Adam R.K. Abplanalp, Managing Partner & CEO, Cobalt PC
Adam Abplanalp serves as Managing Partner & CEO at Cobalt, P.C., a real estate-focused CPA firm located in Portland, Oregon and Honolulu, Hawai'i, which he founded in 2015. Adam's practice focuses on providing tax, accounting, and advisory services, primarily to real estate owners, investors, managers, brokers, and developers.
As part of his public accounting practice, Adam is a recognized expert in Oregon, Washington, and Hawai'i state and local tax laws, tax planning, and compliance, and he routinely testifies before and works with the Oregon Legislature, Oregon Department of Revenue, City of Portland Revenue Division, and various other state and local tax authorities. Adam is a frequent speaker on real estate and state and local taxation, both for CPAs and for real estate industry professionals. Since 2018, Adam has also served on the City of Portland's Revenue Division Appeals Board.
In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Oregon, Hawai'i, New York, and Washington, he holds a Chartered Professional Accountant license in British Columbia, Canada, is a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is licensed as a Real Estate Principal Broker in Oregon and Managing Broker in Washington.
Adam has been an OSCPA member since 2010, has served as a leader on various OSCPA committees, and is the 2024-25 OSCPA Board Vice Chair.
(3/19/24)
Harriet Strothers, State and Local Tax Partner, Delap LLP
Harriet Strothers has nearly 40 years of experience in providing state and local tax advisory and compliance services to large multi-state and multinational companies. With extensive experience managing tax compliance and audits for all areas of state taxation as well as IRS LMSB "Large Case" audits, Harriet also performs state and local due diligence related to mergers and acquisitions.
Harriet spent almost half of her career in industry with The Ryland Group, a Fortune 500 home builder and mortgage lender that operates in 28 states. Upon her return to public accounting in 2007, Harriet observed that there was a need for business leaders to better understand how State and Local Taxes affected their financial decision making. Rather than developing an industry-specific concentration, Harriet focused on state tax minimization through planning and remediation strategies for taxpayers who operate in multiple states. These strategies include multi-state income/franchise tax refund engagements and reverse sales/use tax audits, as well as state voluntary disclosures to mitigate past tax liability. Harriet's experience in industry included extensive audit defense. She has leveraged that experience into numerous successful audit strategies that she regularly employs when defending clients under audit by taxing authorities.
A frequent presenter on multi-state tax issues, Harriet has managed many large multi-state income/franchise tax refund engagements and reverse sales/use tax audits. She has managed and delivered numerous voluntary disclosure services and audit defense services in almost every state. Harriet has substantial experience advising clients on product sales/use taxability for different types of transactions and on nexus-related issues in 50 states.
After a two-year stint at Schnitzer Steel, Harriet worked with Moss Adams for six years before joining the team at Delap in 2014.
(3/3/21)
Non-Member Price $99.00
Member Price $69.00