Vernon Calder

Vernon L. Calder, CPA, CIRA is a director with Berkeley Research Group, LLC in Salt Lake City and has 35 years of experience in public accounting specializing in tax services. For more than 25 years, he has specialized in bankruptcy tax compliance and planning. Mr. Calder has provided a wide variety of tax services to clients throughout his career. His efforts have focused on special tax issues in corporate, partnership and individual bankruptcy, the formation of and tax compliance for liquidating trusts; the<br>representation of taxpayers before federal and state taxing authorities; tax consulting with regard to “change of ownership” issues; tax consulting and compliance for U.S. companies operating internationally; tax consulting and compliance for corporations with multi-state income using a “water’s edge” method; analysis of deductible ordinary and necessary business expenses; and supervising tax compliance for high technology companies. Mr. Calder’s clients have included companies ranging in size<br>from $1 billion in annual sales to small development companies in many industries such as computer<br>and peripherals, software, semiconductors, life sciences, energy, hospitality, professional sports and automotive parts rebuilders. In addition, he has provided tax services to a variety of clients, including individuals, corporations, partnerships, decedent estates, trusts and bankruptcy estates. His services rendered include tax compliance, representation before taxing authorities, bankruptcy court appearances, testifying as an expert witness, and tax consulting and planning. Mr. Calder received both his B.S. and his Master’s in accountancy/taxation from Brigham Young University.<br>