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Kim Bushek
Of Counsel
Overview
Kim helps her clients by identifying practical and workable solutions for a wide variety of tax issues affecting individual and business clients. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in accountancy and Juris Doctor and an advanced Master of Law Degree in Taxation that gives her an excellent depth of knowledge regarding complex tax matters.
Kim assists individual and business clients with a plethora of federal and state tax issues. At the federal level, she has extensive experience with business and tax planning for all life cycle stages for S corporations, C corporations, partnerships, disregarded entities, and their owners. With her accounting background, Kim can perform analysis of the tax consequences of various scenarios to allow her clients to fully analyze their options. She also handles complex employment tax issues, evaluations, and audits of the employee retention credit, and compliance for individuals, trusts, and all types of business organizations. Her advice is frequently sought to properly structure corporate business acquisitions, reorganizations, and liquidations to obtain the most favorable tax consequences.
At the state level, Kim has worked on income tax, sales tax, withholding tax, and other types of tax in numerous states and localities. She is also well-versed in remote worker employment tax issues in jurisdictions across the U.S
Kim also has significant experience in the nonprofit sector. She routinely organizes and obtains tax-exempt status for numerous public charities, private foundations, supporting organizations, private operating foundations, and other types of tax-exempt organizations. She addresses complex issues relating to nonprofit clients, including obtaining various determination letters, conversions of private foundations to public charity status, IRS compliance, and various tax controversy matters relating to tax-exempt organizations.
Kim has in-depth experience with federal and state tax controversy issues, ranging from audits, appeals, ruling requests, claims for refund, and tax litigation matters. She provides thorough representation with her tax expertise, and succinct and effective communications with taxing agencies to achieve a fair result for her clients.
Credentials
Education
- University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law, 1995 (J.D.)
- University of Missouri - Kansas City, 1995 (LLM)
- University of Missouri – Columbia, 1992 (B.S.)
Court Admissions
- U.S. Tax Court
- American Bar Association, Taxation Section
- The Missouri Bar
- Kansas Bar Association
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association