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Chris Hesse, CPA

Principal

Clifton Larsen Allen


Chris Hesse, CPA, a tax principal with more than 40 years of tax experience in public accounting with regional and national CPA firms, has 35 years of speaking and training experience before tax professionals on a variety of update topics. His career has included tax leadership of a 200-person practice, and extensive tax writing and analysis services. He is an author and instructor of Tax Advisors Update and Farm Taxation Update. Chris has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences throughout the country on income and estate taxation and agricultural tax topics and is a past chair of the AICPA Ag Conference committee. He has testified before Congressional and legislative committees as well as presenting at IRS and Treasury Department regulation hearings. Chris has been instrumental in federal and state tax statute and regulatory changes, including an Alternative Minimum Tax provision affecting agricultural producers, farm income averaging, Section 199A regulations, and Washington state excise and estate tax issues. Chris is currently serving as the immediate past chair of the AICPA Tax Executive Committee and is a former chair of the AICPA S Corporation Technical Resource Panel.