Experience

Kevin Jones serves as the managing partner for the firm’s Bethesda, Maryland and Fairfax, Virginia offices. Kevin has over 40 years of experience counseling clients on the tax aspects of business transactions, and he has extensive experience negotiating and litigating tax controversies at the federal and state levels. He has performed research and tax planning and implemented tax minimization strategies for business entities in a variety of industries, including government contracting, high technology, manufacturers, distributors, mass media, construction, real estate, hospitality, retail, and professional services. In addition, in his prior role, he was the tax advisor to the Washington Redskins (now Commanders).

Previously, Kevin worked in both law firm and accounting firm environments and was a law clerk to The Honorable Laurence J. Whalen at the United States Tax Court. He graduated, cum laude, from Temple University School of Law where he was a member of the Temple Law Review. He also worked for the national tax office of a Big 4 accounting firm where, as a member of the firm’s “Think Tank” he worked on the development of new and cutting-edge tax strategies for implementation on behalf of firm clients nationwide.

Kevin completed a five-year term as a member of the editorial advisory board of The Tax Adviser, the monthly magazine of tax planning, trends and techniques published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The board is comprised of top tax professionals from the Big 4 and other accounting firms, college professors and major law firms. In that role, Kevin was responsible for reviewing feature articles for publication in the magazine prior to publication. Kevin himself is a prolific writer and often performs speaking engagements for in-house training, client practice development and outside continuing education providers.

Kevin was the Director of the Master’s in Accounting Program at George Mason University where he also taught both undergraduate and graduate level accounting courses. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Accounting at both James Madison University and the University of Maryland.