Dan De Jong is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Washington National Tax group based in Washington, D.C. where he focuses on state and local tax issues. He supports our engagement teams across the tax practice and assists clients with a variety of tax-related income/franchise, financial services, and associated issues. Before joining KPMG in 2015, Dan served as tax counsel for Tax Executives Institute (TEI), where his duties there included preparing Supreme Court briefs on a range of U.S. state and local tax issues and drafting or editing submissions to state tax administrations and state legislators, as well as foreign tax authorities. He also testified on state tax matters before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law and regularly represented TEI at meetings with state and local tax administrators.
Previously, Dan served as a state and local tax manager at another Big 4 accounting firm, where he oversaw tax research and related projects and provided clients with a wide range of tax compliance and consulting assistance. He earned an LL.M. from University of Denver and a J.D. degree from University of Denver College of Law. He also holds a B.A. in English from Calvin College.