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Rita leads Wolf’s International Tax Services Practice, specializing in tax planning and compliance for international holdings. She has extensive experience advising clients on cross-border business activities, structuring international investments, and navigating U.S. compliance obligations for both entities and individuals. Rita also serves as a trusted advisor to other tax professionals, helping identify reporting requirements, review work papers, and ensure accuracy in an ever-evolving international tax landscape.

Prior to joining Wolf, Rita was an Associate Attorney at Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer, LLP, focusing on international and domestic taxation, estate planning, and tax controversy. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Boston University School of Law’s Graduate Tax Program, where she co-founded and co-teaches “Foreign Information Reporting and Withholding.” Rita frequently teaches other international tax topics for Strafford Publications, Tax Practice Pro, and Wolters Kluwer, sharing her expertise with tax professionals nationwide.

John began his tax career in 1987 and passed the IRS Special Enrollment Exam in 1995. A National Tax Practice Institute fellow and SUNY Oswego graduate, he specializes in taxation for non-resident aliens, U.S. citizens living abroad, S corps, legal marijuana businesses, and cryptocurrency.

John is passionate about giving back to the profession. Every year on Giving Tuesday, Tax Practice Pro offers a free ethics webinar, and its weekly Tax Update webinars keep tax professionals informed on the latest developments. These programs combine practical guidance, strategies, and insights to help practitioners work smarter, faster, and with confidence.

Whether you’re just starting your career or expanding an established practice, Tax Practice Pro and John Sheeley, EA provide the education, coaching, and community support tax professionals need to succeed.

A.J. is an enrolled agent (EA) with over thirty years of experience encompassing various areas of taxation. Though his practice centers on Individual, Business, and Estate Tax preparation, A.J. specializes in IRS Audits, Appeals, Collections, Innocent Spouse, Independent Contractor vs. Employee Issues, and Civil Tax Fraud Representations. As diverse as his specializations, A.J.’s clientele, too, ranges from average workers to Fortune 500 executives.Based in Sioux City, Iowa, A.J. nevertheless brings his everyday “in the trenches” experience to seminars nationally and internationally to assist attendees with real issues affecting tax professionals. A.J. has spoken Basics + Beyond Income Tax Seminars and Webinars, NATP National Conference and Webinars, NAEA Webinars, NTI Resort Conferences, and Iowa State University Webinars and Annual Tax Seminars.A.J. started his tax career with a national CPA firm in San Diego, CA after proudly serving for five years in the United States Navy onboard the Guided Missile Destroyer USS Callaghan. During his time on the destroyer, A.J. and crew members were awarded the Navy Expeditionary Medal for their work in the Straits of Hormuz off the coast of Iran.Outside of his tax practice, he is a member of the Diocese of Sioux City Priests’ Pension & Welfare Board and the Investment Advisory Board for the Diocese. When not working, his time is spent in various activities, including traveling with his wife and their two children.

During his four decades of practicing tax law, Frank Agostino has been the driving force behind many successful lawsuits that sought to establish fair tax enforcement principles for taxpayers.Frank has extensive courtroom experience, litigating more than 100 tax matters, several of which established important precedents for taxpayers. Frank defended the taxpayer in a landmark suit, Commissioner v. Zuch, 145 S.Ct. 1707 (2025),in which the U.S. Supreme Court established that the U.S. Tax Court has limited jurisdiction over certain tax enforcement matters. Similarly, in Chai v. Commissioner, 851 F.3d 190, 2nd Cir. 2017, Frank helped to establish that the IRS must obtain supervisory approval before imposing penalties in tax deficiency proceedings. In those and other significant cases, Frank’s challenges to government enforcement processes resulted in precedents that have changed the way the IRSand Tax Court do business, while equipping tax lawyers with new arguments with which to defend their clients. Because of Frank’s stellar reputation in the tax bar, he has been ranked in Chambers in Band 1for Tax: Fraud Nationwide (USA) and in Band 1 for High Net Worth Private Client: Tax. Before joining Kostelanetz, Frank was the president and founder of Agostino & Associates, a well-known tax controversy firm in New Jersey. Prior to entering private practice, Frank was an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service’sDistrict Counsel in Springfield, Illinois and Newark, New Jersey. He also served as a SpecialAssistant United States Attorney, where he prosecuted primarily criminal tax cases. As an adjunct professor, Frank taught tax controversy at Seton Hall University W. Paul StillmanSchool of Business and Rutgers School of Law. He also served as the co-director of the Rutgers Federal Tax Law Clinic. Frank is a frequent speaker and author on tax controversy and litigation matters. He serves on theAdvisory Board of the Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure. Frank is actively involved with theAmerican Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers’ Association. Frank is also the President of Taxpayers Assistance Corp., which provides tax and legal advice to low-incometaxpayers in the NY/NJ area.

Robert “Bob” Kerr brings extensive experience across the public sector, trade associations, and private sector in tax administration, tax policy, and public policy. During over a decade at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), he held key positions in both Washington, DC headquarters and the Chicago district office. While working in the Service’s artificial intelligence labs, Bob led two nationwide electronic filing pilot programs, coordinating across multiple functional areas. He also served on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, assisting Senator Grassley with IRS oversight on issues ranging from private debt collection to relocation expenses.

Bob’s experience with the National Association of Enrolled Agents (NAEA) and H&R Block provides him with a deep perspective on the needs of tax professionals. He served as NAEA’s chief advocate for more than a decade, acted as primary spokesperson to tax and general media, founded its political action committee, and later served as head of office, championing the profession at every level.

Larry has been a tax professional since 1986 with a tax planning, preparation, and representation practice in Redwood Shores, CA. Larry enjoys speaking about tax to tax and financial planning professionals. Larry received his BS in Business Administration with emphases in Accounting and Finance from UC Berkeley and MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University.

Jane Ryder, EA, CPA is a national speaker on many accounting, tax, and business compliance topics. She runs her CPA firm, Brass Tax Ryder Professional Group, Inc.in San Diego, California. Brass Tax (not affiliated with Brass Tax Presentations) has been providing tax and accounting services since 1980.Brass Tax is a business centric practice, preparing and consulting on the preparation of Corporations, S corporations, LLCs, Partnerships, and Trusts. She also specializes in IRS and state agencies collections, audit appeals, offers in compromise, and other compliance related matters.

Donna first encountered tax issues as a teenage forestry major in a forest economics course at Oregon State University. A few educational twists and turns eventually led her to Temple Law School in Philadelphia, where she discovered her passion for tax law. She joined the tax section of a large Philadelphia law firm, Morgan Lewis, and was quickly recruited to serve as an adjunct law professor—launching a 23-year full-time teaching career.

She now holds the title of Emerita Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, MN, where she taught tax courses as well as Property, Estates and Trusts, and Food Law. (Emerita signifies she left on good terms and remains respected by the institution.) Donna began preparing tax returns as a volunteer long before computers were common in the office. Today, she owns Ash Creek Tax & Legal Services LLC in Monmouth, Oregon, providing tax preparation, estate planning, and taxpayer representation since 2016.

Mike has been in the tax business for over 40 years. He began working in IRScollection and then as an Office Auditor. This included temporary assignments to theAtlanta Service Center, Review Staff, and a Revenue Agent Class Instructorassignment. Upon leaving the service, he received his EA in 1989. He then worked fora tax attorney and estate planning firm before starting his own tax company in 2001.That company, Garrison Tax, has an office in Lawrenceville, GA. He currently serves onthe board of the NATP’s Georgia State Chapter.

Amy M. Wall, EA, MBA, is retired from her private tax practice in Tucson, Arizona, where she worked with individuals, small businesses and S Corporations. Amy now spends her time teaching and writing on taxation. She teaches for several continuing education providers and has been published in a number of tax journals, including NATP’s Tax Pro Journal and Wolters Kluwer Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure. She is the author of Virtual Tax: the taxation of Cryptocurrency; Income Taxes for Real Estate Agents; Divorce and Taxes, and The Parish, a work of fiction about a tax preparer whose nighttime clients aren’t quite what they seem.

Roger has been doing taxes since 2006. During that time he has been the General Manager for a large franchise in Atlanta as well as a Technology Manager for several tax franchises. Roger obtained his Enrolled Agent Status in 2011. Roger is also an NTPI Fellow. Prior to getting into taxes Roger worked as a Deputy Sheriff in Leon County Florida for 8 years. Roger was injured in the line of duty and moved into the tax field. He was awarded the Medal of Valor and Purple Heart by the Florida Sheriff’s Association.

Jamie Jorgenstone is a Certified Public Accountant and Calyx CPA's Chief Technical Officer. Jamie holds a B.S. in Public Accounting and a minor in Economics, earned from Southern Oregon University, and has dedicated the bulk of her professional career to researching IRC Section 280E, helping business owners in the cannabis space navigate the complexities of the tax code, and developing strategies to save business owners money while staying compliant. Jamie is the primary author of the methodologies currently being employed by Calyx to help the cannabis and psychedelics industry mitigate the impacts Section 280E.

Justin Botillier is the CEO of Calyx CPA LLC in Southern Oregon. With twenty years of experience, he has committed his career to supporting small business owners. Even before cannabis was legalized for recreational use, Justin was a leading advocate for the cannabis industry within the accounting profession. In 2016, he sold his general accounting practice to concentrate solely on the cannabis sector. Justin specializes in business advisory services and strategies to mitigate the tax impacts of Section 280E on cannabis-related businesses nation-wide.

A former IRS trial attorney, Mr. Richards has been solving tax problems for over 20 years. He is a parter at Greenspoon Marder, an AmLaw 200 law firm, an adjunct professor of law, and an expert to the cannabis industry and in IRC Section 280E matters.