State and Local Taxation

Sanjay Gupta, PhD, CPA, is the Dean of the Eli Broad College of Business, as well as a Professor of Accounting, at Michigan State University. A CPA with a law degree, Professor Gupta has served as a consultant to the Big 4 and national CPA firms, as well as with multistate giants such as Motorola and Charles River Associates. Dr. Gupta has published in such prestigious venues such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the National Tax Journal, the Accounting Review, the Journal of the American Taxation Association (JATA), the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Tax Notes. His awards include being the 1993-94 PriceWaterhouse Fellow in Taxation, one of two awarded nationally, as well as receiving a nationally competitive Ernst & Young Tax Re-search Grant. Sanjay also has been recognized by his peers for his superb teaching. In 2000 he received the Arizona Society of CPAs Accounting Education Innovation Award.

John E. Karayan, JD, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and a Professor of Accounting Emeritus at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is a tax attorney with a Big 4 CPA firm background who left professional practice to become a full-time university professor. A former director of taxes at one of the world's largest software companies, Professor Karayan has remained active outside of academia as an expert witness on accounting issues in complex business litigation. He also served for years on the Board of Directors of the world's foremost manufacturer of anti-terrorist vehicle access barricades. Dr. Karayan's books include Strategic Business Tax Planning with Charles Swenson. John also has published articles in journals ranging from The Tax Advisor to the Marquette Sports Law Review and has spoken before professional groups such as World Trade Institute, California Continuing Education of the Bar, the European Accounting Association, and the California Society of CPAs.

Joseph W. Neff, JD, needs no introduction to the state and local tax community. His previous experience includes partner in the Los Angeles office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was national director of middle market tax practice. He was also managing director of the SALT practice (as well as a partner) at RSM McGladrey.

Charles Swenson, PhD, CPA, is a Professor of Taxation and the Elaine & Kenneth Leventhal Re-search Fellow at the Leventhal School of Accounting of the University of Southern California, where he teaches (among other courses) graduate classes on state and local taxation. His professional experience includes service as a tax consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Professor Swenson also has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles' Anderson School of Management and a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology. Winner of several American Taxation Association Outstanding Tax Manuscript Awards, Chuck has published extensively in leading journals such as The Accounting Review, Advances in Taxation, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, the Journal of the American Taxation Association, and the National Tax Journal.