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Jeff Porter CPA, MST, LL.M. Taxation

Board Member, AICPA

Jeffrey A. Porter is the Founder and owner of Porter & Associates, CPA, a local firm in Huntington, West Virginia which concentrates in the providing of tax planning and business advisory services for small to medium sized businesses and high net worth individuals.

Mr. Porter has been active in the AICPA for over twenty-seven years, serving as Past Chair of the Tax Executive Committee, Chair of the Tax Reform Task Force and a member of the Board of Directors. On behalf of the AICPA, he has testified before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary-Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law regarding the “Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2011”; the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform regarding “Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013”; the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business-Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access on “Adding to the Uncertainty: Small Business’ Perspectives on the Tax Cliff"; the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on “Tax Fraud, Tax ID Theft and Tax Reform: Moving Forward with Solutions”; and the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship on “Targeted Tax Reform: Solutions to relieve the tax compliance burden(s) for America’s small businesses”.

Mr. Porter holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Marshall University and a Masters of Taxation from The University of Tulsa. He currently resides in Huntington, West Virginia where he is actively involved in many community related activities including: Past member-Board of Governors-Mountwest Community & Technical College; Treasurer of the Huntington Symphony Orchestra; Chair of the United Methodist Foundation of WV Board of Trustees; Past President of the Marshall University Alumni Association; Past Chair of the West Virginia Lottery Commission; Past-Chair of the West Virginia Volunteers in Mission; and participating in and leading Mission teams to Nicaragua, Russia, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Alaska and disaster recovery teams to Mississippi.


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