Tax Seminars Offered in December
Pierpont Community & Technical College of Fairmont State University presents a one-week
series of intensive tax seminars for the accounting and legal community on Dec. 10-14.
The five day-long seminars are "An Insider's Approach to Federal Estate and Gift
Taxation - Level 1," "An Insider's Approach to Federal Estate and Gift Taxation -
Level 2," "Estate Planning Techniques," "Individual Income Tax Refresher: Updated
for New Individual Income Tax Laws" and "The Ins and Outs of IRS Practice and Procedure
and Tax Preparer Liability." Each day's seminar qualifies for eight hours of continuing
professional credit (CPE) through the West Virginia Board of Accountancy and for eight
hours of mandatory continuing legal education credit (MCLE) through the West Virginia
State Bar. Participants in days two, three and/or five also qualify for one hour of
MCLE ethics credit each day. The instructor will be George M. Schain, J.D., a former
IRS appeals officer.
Schain is nationally recognized as one of the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic
seminar leaders speaking on taxation today. He has lectured for almost all of the
state CPA societies, as well as colleges and universities, bar associations and other
professional groups throughout the U.S. He has conducted many in-house training programs
for accounting firms and commercial banks and trust companies.
After graduating from New York University and receiving a Juris Doctorate degree
from Fordham University School of Law, Schain continued to accumulate extensive professional
experience in the field of taxation. He has been a tax project manager for the AICPA
and a supervisor in the National Tax Training Department of Coopers & Lybrand, now
known as PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has worked for the IRS as an appeals officer,
revenue officer, district conferee and estate tax attorney. Schain has also been a
full-time professor of law at New York Law School (10 years) and an adjunct professor
of law at Rutgers Law School and is a former adjunct faculty member of Fordham University
Graduate School of Business.
All seminars run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Registration begins each day at 8 a.m.
The seminars will be held at the Bridgeport Conference Center at Charles Pointe, Exit
124 on I-79. For maps, directions and lodging information, visit www.conferencebridgeport.com. The cost for each of the five seminars is $225. The seminar fee includes refreshments
and lunch. A discount price of $199 per day applies if registration is received before
Nov. 17 or if a registrant attends three or more days or if a company registers three
or more persons at the same time. To register, call (304) 367-4920.
