Jack
Rothstein spent 27 years in the Florham Park, NJ, office of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, including 20 years as partner. There, Jack was in
charge of the NJ State and Local Tax practice, servicing a broad range of
businesses and gaining experience with most major industries.
Jack
deals with many state and local taxes, including corporate income, personal
income, sales and use, net worth, franchise, gross receipts, payroll, litter,
personal property, realty transfer, spill, commercial rent and occupancy, and
petroleum fuel taxes. Projects include audit representation; preparing protest
letters, opinion letters, and ruling requests; conducting multistate studies on
state and local tax matters; negotiating voluntary disclosure agreements;
securing refunds in the corporate income tax and sales/use tax areas; and tax
planning for clients in various states.
Jack
is a member of the New Jersey Society of CPAs, winning its 2003/2004 Leadership
Award. He was previously a trustee and chairman of its State Tax Committee. Jack
frequently spoke at conferences sponsored by the Tax Executives Institute,
National Business Institute, NJ Society of CPAs, Foundation for Accounting
Education, and others. Jack’s many taxation-related articles include several
published in Interstate Tax Insights and State Tax Notes. He served on the Tax
Committee of Governor Whitman’s Economic Master Plan Commission and in the NJ
State Treasurer’s Tax Advisory Group, and has testified at Senate Committee
hearings regarding NJ tax law changes.
Currently,
Jack is an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and St. John’s
University, teaching Masters-level courses on taxes.