About

Curriculum Vitae

Biographical Information – 

January 2024

Professional Experience

      Nominated: Forbes Top CPAs in America 2024

      President/CEO – Walloch Corp, Redlands and San Diego, California; Wailuku Maui

      Of Counsel – Level Advisors, Dana Point, California

      Certified Public Accountant - 55 years

      Formerly employed by the Internal Revenue Service

 

Education - Degrees - Graduation with Honors

      Master of Business Taxation - University of Southern California – January 1978

      Master of Business Administration - California State University Fullerton 1968

      Bachelor of Science, Major in Accountancy - Cal Poly University Pomona 1966

     

Special Expert Witness Assignment – Congress of the United States

Expert Witness before the United States Congress including Congressmen Rahm Emanuel, Richard Neal & Paul Ryan on the Alternative Minimum Tax – Official AICPA Expert in 2007.

 

Special Recognition – CPA Magazine

      Named one of “50 Top Tax Professionals in America” – CPA Magazine

 

Special Teaching Assignment – People's Republic of China

      Visiting Professor - Xiamen University, People's Republic of China – “U.S. Taxation,"

      "The USA CPA Perspective" and "Managing a CPA Practice" – May, 1999

 

Expert Witness and Litigation Support

   Expert Witness – Largest Tax Preparation Firm in USA with O'Melveny & Myers

   Expert Witness – Appearing before Retired Chief Justice of Washington Supreme Court

   Expert Witness – JAMS (Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services), AAA (American Arbitration Association), ADR Systems (Alternative Dispute Resolution) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) including representing major national investment firms, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Oppenheimer and UBS,

   Expert Witness Criminal & Civil Taxation and Accounting including Business Contracts, Contractor Accounting, Corporate Tax, C Corporations, S Corporations, PSC Corporations, Estate Taxes, Excise Taxes, Governmental Accounting, Individual Tax, Alternative Minimum Tax, Net Operating Losses, Partnership Accounting & Tax, Property Tax, Tax Aspects of Divorce, Taxation of Agricultural Cooperatives, Tax Shelters, Tax Aspects of Personal Injury, Wrongful Termination Damages, Fiduciary Tax & Accounting, Charitable Remainder Unitrusts, Like-Kind Exchanges,, California Tax, CPA Practice Sales, CPA ethics and  professional responsibilities, fraud, embezzlement & misappropriation of funds including celebrity cases on nearly 100 expert witness cases.

Qualified as an Expert Witness in Los Angeles, Orange, Napa, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego County Courts, California and in Federal Courts throughout the United States  Service as a Court Referee and as an Estate Executor

AICPA National Award Sidney Kess Award for Excellence in Continuing Education

 

AICPA National Public Service Award Exemplary Service - Financial Literacy

 

Professional Activities

      AICPA Tax Division Chairperson – Individual Income Tax Resource Panel 2007-2008

      AICPA's Tax Division - Estate Planning and Special Entities and Industries Subcommittees

      Co-Chairman - Inland Empire Estate Planning Seminar - 1994 through 2010

      National Board and Membership Chair - National Association of Estate Planning Councils

     Chairman – Tax Committee – Associated Accounting Firms International (AAFI)

         & Associated Regional Accounting Firms (ARAF)              

      President - Estate Planning Council of San Bernardino County - 1984-1985

 

Teaching, Speaking Engagements

      Speaker with IRS Commissioners Charles Rettig, John Koskinen and Douglas Shulman

and IRS National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olsen at both Tax Conferences and Tax Videos

      Professor Emeritus of Advanced Financial Accounting and Advanced Taxation - University of

         California, Riverside – Anderson Graduate School of Management

Professor Emeritus of Advanced Financial Accounting & Taxation - University of Redlands –

      Individual, Corporate & Partnership Taxation, Estate & Gift Tax Planning, Advanced   Financial Accounting, Governmental Accounting, Intermediate Accounting & Introduction to 

         Financial Accounting

      Tax speaker throughout California, the United States including 34 States &    

         7 countries internationally including The Peoples Republic of China

      National Society of Accountants Annual Meeting Speaker with IRS Commissioner John

    Koskinen on Update on Affordable Care Act

      Western CPE/University of Montana – Business Tax Update and Federal Income Tax Update

      Jennings Seminars/TaxSpeaker.com – 1040 & Business Tax Updates & Advanced Tax

AICPA's - Kess Corporate & Individual Tax Workshops– Instructor & Video Panelist

      AICPA’s - Speaker - Conference on Tax Strategies for High-Income Individuals –

Topics: Alternative Minimum Tax, Net Operating Losses, Basis & State Income Tax

      AICPA's - All-Star National Tax Review, Effective Estate Planning, Annual Tax Update,

             IRS Examination Techniques & 1040 Tax Clinic - Instructor

      California Society of CPA's - Instructor for Estate Tax and Income Tax Courses

      Tax Instructor – Hawaiian Association of Public Accountants, Federal Tax Institute, National

         Tax Institute, Professional Education Systems Inc.

AICPA’s Tax Certificate Program - Tax Planning for Closely Held Businesses, Accounting

   Periods & Methods, C Corporations & Multiple Entities, C Corporations Mergers &

      Acquisitions

      Society of California Accountants - Tax speaker & Video Panelist - New Tax Developments

      Appearances on radio, television and videos on tax, accounting & financial matters

 

Research Grant

      Awarded University of Redlands Hewlett Research Grant to Study Implementation

         Of Year 2000 Accounting Curriculum Project Recommendations

 

Publications and Related Matters

      Author – Hundreds of Tax Articles for publications including: “Wall Street Journal”  “AICPA

      Tax Advisor”, Tax Hotline”, “Tax Digest”, “Investment News” and “Journal of Accountancy”

Quoted in Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN Money Magazine and Investment News

Co-Author – AICPA AMT Congressional Testimony – Alternative Minimum Tax

Author – AICPA Video Course – AMT – Strategies to Escape Its Reach

Author – CCH and AICPA Webcasts – AMT – Strategies to Escape Its Reach

Contributing Tax Analyst - CCH – Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004 –

     Explanation & Analysis – Alternative Minimum Tax

      Tax Simplification Proposals - 1990 Congressional Report on Tax Simplification

      Editorial Advisory Boards - AICPA Personal Financial Planning Section - “Planner”

         Publication & Harcourt-Brace Professional Publishing - Tax Return Preparers Newsletter

 

Tax Expert Witness-State and Local Governments

     State of California Franchise Tax Board – Taxation of Agricultural Cooperatives

     City of San Bernardino - Empowerment Zone Qualification – Tax Benefits

 

Personal and Community Affairs

      Actor - Community Theatre  "A Few Good Men", "Equus", “Harvey”, "A Thousand Clowns",  “Laura”, “Love, Sex & the IRS". Best Supporting Actor - Inland Theatre League Award.

      Chair Missions Committee & Board of Trustees United Methodist Church of Redlands 

      Board Member, Grove High School, Redlands California – A Charter High School

      Distinguished President - Redlands Noon Kiwanis Club

      Treasurer – Redlands Police Community Foundation

      Board Member, Boys and Girls Club of Redlands

      Board Member, San Bernardino Valley College and Crafton Hills College Foundations

      Board Member, Goodwill Industries Planned Giving Advisory Board

      Vice President and Treasurer - Redlands Fourth of July Committee, Inc.

      Volunteer, Inland Harvest, Redlands – Collected and delivered over 13 tons of food

      CPA Coordinator - IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program

      Planned Giving Advisory Board Member - University of California, Riverside

Married to Mary Anna and father of two sons - Jeff, MS in Information and Library Science &

      Professional photographer and Greg, Professional actor and Director of

      Peabody Award Winning Show: Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King.

Completed the L.A. Marathon, March, 1996