Sonoma County Bar Association

 

 Tax Issues Resulting from the Wildfires

  

With insurance payments deposited to checking accounts, and end-of-year tax planning underway, many clients and colleagues have questions regarding the tax implications of the recent fires. Will I be taxed on insurance payments? Does litigation have tax consequences? What about deduction of losses? This seminar will discuss these and more tax issues Sonoma County residents are likely to face this year and next year as a result of the disaster.

Christopher M. Haws
Friedemann Goldberg

 

Mr. Haws is an associate attorney with Friedemann Goldberg LLP, practicing in the areas of Estate Planning and Tax Law. He joined the firm in 2015. Mr. Haws received his bachelors degree from Arizona State University and his law degree from Tulane University Law School. While in law school, Mr. Haws was the Articles Editor of the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law and served as a taxation research assistant. Additionally, he interned with the First Judicial District of Colorado and worked in the in-house legal department at McDermott International Inc. Mr. Haws graduated from law school cum laude, earning honors in trial advocacy and a certificate in International and Comparative Law. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Haws worked in the banking and financial industry and spent two years living and working in Seoul, South Korea. After law school, he practiced in the areas of estate planning and tax in downtown Santa Rosa. He has served as a volunteer with Lawyers Without Borders, Common Ground Legal Clinic, and Hessel Church.

 

 

Ronald P. Wargo II
Friedemann Goldberg

 

Mr. Wargo is a partner with Friedemann Goldberg and practices in the areas of estate planning, business law and intellectual property. He is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California. He has practiced law since 1998.

Mr. Wargo has published numerous articles and delivered lectures on various aspects of estate planning, business, intellectual property and tax law, and has taught fellow attorneys as a Continuing Education of the Bar instructor.

Mr. Wargo was named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine in 2014 and 2015, and a “Rising Star” by the publication in 2011 and 2012. The North Bay Business Journal named him to its inaugural “40 Under 40” list in 2007.

Mr. Wargo received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his law degree from the University of California, Hastings School of Law. He has been an adjunct professor of Business Organizations at Empire College School of Law.

 

 

James Elliott, CPA
Elliott CPA Group, Inc.

 

Mr. Elliott is an alumnus of Sonoma State University and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) Wine Industry Services Team. He has had the opportunity to work with a vast number of companies of all sizes ranging from those in the top 10 in the world to small sole proprietors (and everything in between). In early 2006, he left PwC as a federal Tax Manager in an effort to provide more meaningful client service and attain a better work/life balance. Now in his fifteenth year of public accounting, he predominantly works with entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses and high net worth individuals in various industries including, winery and vineyard, retail, real estate, and manufacturing.

 

Date: Monday, December 18, 2017

 

Time: Check-In: 11:45 am; Presentation: 12:00—1:00 pm

 

Presenter(s):
Christopher M. Haws, Friedemann Goldberg
Ronald P. Wargo II, Friedemann Goldberg
James Elliott, CPA, Elliott CPA Group, Inc.

 

Place: SCBA Office, 111 Santa Rosa Ave., Ste. 222, Santa Rosa, CA 95404.

 

NOTE: Parking for this seminar is ONLY available in the Public Parking Garage at 555 First Street at rate of $.75 per hour. Please do not park in the parking lot at 111 Santa Rosa Avenue

 

Registration Fee: $60–SCBA Members; $75–Public

 

MCLE: 1.0 Unit Participatory Credit in General Law

 

Student: $20 (The student discount is now available online for SCBA Student Members. Students who are not members of SCBA may utilize the student discount by downloading the registration form and submitting it with proof of current enrollment to the SCBA Offices. For more information on becoming a member of SCBA, please contact Susan Demers at (707) 542-1190 ext. 18.)

 

 

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