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HOWARD DONKIN is a tax partner with Jacobson Jarvis & Co PLLC, with more than 20 years experience in serving the not-for-profit community in the areas of tax return preparation, tax compliance, exemption application, penalty abatement, and tax planning. He is a member of the Washington Society of Certificated Public Accountants (WSCPA), where he served as past chair of the Not-for-Profit Committee, past chair of the NFP Tax Sub-Committee and chair of the Washington Legislation Task Force. Nationally, Mr. Donkin served on the AICPA Task Force preparing comments to the IRS on the redesigned Form 990. He was selected by independent sector to serve on their Electronic Data Initiative Workgroup for Nonprofits, by the AICPA to serve on their Technical Resource Panel and by Tax Analyst to serve on their EO Tax Review Advisory Board. Mr. Donkin is a frequent author and speaker on federal, state and local tax issues. His client list includes arts organization, museums, private foundations, schools and organizations that provide services to children. KAREN DUNN is a manager in the Tax Services Group at Clark Nuber P.S., a CPA and consulting firm located in the Seattle Metropolitan area. Ms. Dunn applies her legal, tax and mediation expertise to issues of consequence to not-for-profit organizations, as well as assisting them in optimizing their operations and fulfilling their charitable purposes. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. She was a contributing writer, technical reviewer and editor for the Practical Guide to the Form 990 by Clark Nuber, a treatise published by CCH (2009-2011). Ms. Dunn earned her B.S. degree in accounting from Brooklyn College, her J.D. degree from Fordham University and her Masters of Law in Taxation degree at New York University. MARK D. KIMBALL has practiced in Bellevue for 28 years as principal of a six-member firm, MDK Law Associates, emphasizing corporate, commercial and property law, and consulting in matters involving federal and international taxation. He is an adjunct professor of law at Eotvos Lorand University and has instructed a property law course for escrow (L.P.O.) candidates taking the Washington licensing examination and has served as a law school guest lecturer at Seattle University School of Law. He also presents and has presented at conferences and continuing education events of the Escrow Association of Washington and the Washington State Bar Association, and at legal and political science academic conferences in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Mr. Kimball also served as a Washington state law examiner, hosted a weekly radio talk show on KKNW, Seattle's AM CNN affiliate, and taught a course on business law. His research and writings include topics in international and domestic tax policy and international commercial law. Recent publications include "Context & Structure: Historical Institutionalism and Analysis of Cuba's Economic & Legal Reforms," and "Synthesizing Legal-Philosophical Referents and Rational Choice Analysis in Tax Policy Adoption and Change: A Proposal on the Relevance of Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis." Mr. Kimball is admitted to practice in Washington and New York, and has been board-certified as a professional guardian (B.C.P.G.). He earned his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the University of Washington and is currently working toward a Ph.D. in tax policy. Mr. Kimball was recently recognized as a Washington Top Attorney in corporate and tax law by Washington CEO magazine and in Seattle Met magazine, and regularly testifies as an expert witness. TAMARA L. WATTS is a partner in the Seattle office of K&L Gates LLP, where her practice focuses on federal and state law that impacts tax-exempt organizations. She assists a number of tax-exempt organizations with corporate matters and federal and state tax matters, including qualification for federal tax exemption, good governance practices, grant making and compliance for private foundations, international philanthropy, conversion to and from tax-exempt status, maintaining public charity status, duties of officers and directors, intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income tax, formation of affiliated entities and supporting organizations, joint venture arrangements and entrepreneurial activities, mergers and restructurings, licensing arrangements and Internet-based activities, and obtaining private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service. She has served as an officer and director of local nonprofits, is an active member of the Washington State Bar Association Nonprofit Corporations Committee and American Bar Association Tax-exempt Organizations Subcommittee and is one of the contributing authors of the Washington Nonprofit Handbook: How to Form and Maintain a Nonprofit Corporation in Washington State. She earned her B.A. degree from Stanford University and her J.D. degree from Yale Law School. Ms. Watts was named as one of Washington's Super Lawyers in 2011.
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