Steven R. Anderson, CPA, J.D.

Our managing partner is the co-founder and President of Anderson & Jahde, P.C. Steven Anderson has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell’s highest, preeminent, rating in legal ability and ethical standards, named in Lawyers Of Distinction, listed in Marquis Who’s Who, annually named by 5280 Magazine as a Top Lawyer in Denver and named among the Best Lawyers In America.

Mr. Anderson has represented and consulted thousands of individuals, corporations and estates with civil and criminal tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, state and local taxing authorities, the United States Tax Court, the United States District Courts, the United States Courts of Appeals and even a leading case in the United States Supreme Court. He served as lead counsel in some of the highest profile tax cases out of Colorado, and elsewhere, including a criminal tax case which the Department of Justice identified as one of the largest tax evasion case in the history of Colorado, a seminal case won in the United States Supreme Court, a precedent setting gift tax case in the United States Tax Court, and a defining Colorado Sales & Use tax case.

He has also represented hundreds of Certified Public Accountants and CPA firms in all facets of their profession, including defending malpractice claims, defending complaints filed with state boards of accountancy, defending complaints filed with the AICPA, defending complaints lodged with the IRS’s Office of Professional Responsibility, defending return-preparer-penalties asserted by the IRS, and defending accountants facing criminal tax charges. Mr. Anderson has also represented and consulted accounting firms and their owners in the context of firm break ups and formations. Mr. Anderson has also served as an expert witness in tax and accounting malpractice cases.

With his background, clients also call upon Mr. Anderson to represent them in business and commercial litigation cases.

He is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, College of Law, Graduate Tax Program, and a sought-after speaker for the many Continuing Education courses he has authored and instructed for Attorneys and Accountants (see course topics below).

In 2004 the Internal Revenue Service invited Steven Anderson to participate as a practitioner panelist on its nationally broadcast Internet program, Tax Talk Today, on the topic of IRS Appeals. And the Internal Revenue Service has hired Mr. Anderson to present continuing educations courses to its employees on the topic of ethics in tax practice.

Biography

• Certified Public Accountant, Colorado, 1984. (Inactive)

• Contributing Author: “Effectively Representing Your Client Before the New IRS”

• American Bar Association, Section on Taxation, 2002.

• Author: When The IRS Wants Your Client to Pay Trust Fund Taxes Part I, II and III, Colorado Lawyer, September, October, November, 1997.

• Adjunct Professor, University of Denver, College of Law, Graduate Tax Program.

• Listed in “The Best Lawyers In America”

• Continuing Education Instructor: “Ethics In Tax Practice;” “Employment Taxes: A Potentially Devastating Problem;” “Colorado Sales and Use Taxes;” “IRS Collections: The King’s Life’s Blood;” “Accountant Liability: What Every Accountant Should Know;” “IRS Controversies: Helping Taxpayers in Trouble;” “Ethics in Tax Practice;” “IRS Restructuring and Reformation Act of 1988.”

CPA Inactive

Affiliations

• American Bar Association –Tax Section Member

• Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association

• Greater Denver Tax Counsel – Past Member