Pennsylvania Local Taxation Panell (Multistate Tax Conference)

ON-DEMAND

Online

1-Tax
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Hear from a panel that includes Cheri Hutchinson Freeh, CPA, CGMA and Stephen J. Blazick, CPA, JD, LLM moderated by Matthew R. O’Brien, CPA on the following:

Act 18: The long path to passing legislative modifications to Act 32 to benefit taxpayers and local taxing jurisdictions
Pennsylvania House Resolution 291 and SB 653: Consolidation of tax collectors for BPT and EIT taxes and performing studies to determine benefits and pitfalls
Reflection on changes in Philadelphia taxes: The ongoing arguments on the Philly beverage tax and the city’s new plans for real estate reassessments and raising real estate tax revenue
Federal tax reform and how it is being handled by Philadelphia and local jurisdictions
Will Harrisburg follow others and take the SALT deduction route?

Registration

PICPA Member: $29
Nonmember: $39

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Course No. ON-DEMAND Level: Update

Prerequisites:

None

Notes

You will have up to 90 days after the date of purchase to complete the course and take the exam.

Speaker(s)

Stephen Blazick

Attorney

Stephen J. Blazick, Esq., CPA, LL.M.

Steve is a Partner with Reed Smith LLP, an international law firm with over 1,500 attorneys. Steve is a member of the State Tax Group, and is resident in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Steve’s practice focuses on complex multistate tax appeals, litigation and advice, and minimizing state tax burdens. He has experience in the following areas: franchise, corporate income, sales and use, and gross receipts taxes. He also has represented numerous clients in unclaimed
property matters, and matters involving Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale tax issues.

Steve is a frequent speaker on state tax issues, and has spoken at conferences sponsored by the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Philadelphia Bar Association, Delaware Chamber of Commerce, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Chicago Tax Executive Institute.

Steve has had articles published in the Washington Business Journal, the IPT Tax Report, State Tax Notes, and Rigzone (Oil & Gas News), and has been quoted in the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Legal Intelligencer.

Steve successfully represented the taxpayer in Schering-Plough HealthCare Products Sales
Corporation v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 805 A.2d 1284 (Pa.Commw. 2002) aff’d, 861
A.2d 259 (Pa. 2004), a case of first impression and of national significance concerning Public
Law 86-272.

Steve graduated summa cum laude from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A). Steve received his Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) from Temple University School of Law. Steve received a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) with a focus in taxation from Villanova University School of Law.

Steve is a member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, and the Marcellus Shale Coalition.

Cheri Freeh

Partner

Cheri Hutchinson Freeh, CPA
Principal
Hutchinson Gillahan and Freeh PC

Cheri is a principal with Hutchinson, Gillahan and Freeh, P.C., a public accounting firm in Quakertown, PA. She received an AAS in Accounting from Northampton Community College and a BS in Business Administration with an accounting specialization from Thomas A. Edison State College. Cheri is a member of the American (AICPA) and Pennsylvania (PICPA) Institutes of Certified Public Accountants. Cheri serves on council for both the AICPA and PICPA and is the immediate past President of the PICPA. She is a member and past chairperson of the PICPA Committee on State Taxation and of the PICPA Local Tax Task Force. She also serves as a member of the Pennsylvania State Department of Community and Economic Development’s Act 32 advisory committee and the advisory committee on the local earned income tax register for the Governor’s Center for Local Government. She is a member of the board of trustees of First Savings Bank, vice-chair of the board of trustees of St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Quakertown Hospital, a former board member and treasurer of the Upper Bucks Chamber of Commerce, a board member and treasurer of the Upper Bucks Chamber Foundation, a board member and former treasurer of the Quakertown Alive Main Street Organization, a member of the Bucks County Community College Accounting Advisory Board and a member of the Bucks County Estate Planning Council. She has over 30 years of experience in the field of public accounting and offers a wide variety of expertise in accounting issues for privately held businesses, non-profit organizations, local governments, estates, trusts and individuals. Cheri has served as a speaker on various topics for the Pennsylvania Institute of CPA’s, the Chamber of Commerce, Lehigh University Small Business Development Center, The Pennsylvania Earned Income Tax Officers and Collectors Association, The Pennsylvania Society of Public Accountants, the Pennsylvania State Governor’s Center for Local Government and the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. Cheri has served as an expert witness in small business and non-profit fraud cases. She has also served as an adjunct instructor for DeSales University and is one of the few individuals invited by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to provide private training sessions to both the Republican and Democratic caucuses.