Kurt Coburn CPA

Kurt Coburn is a Tax Partner at Blazek & Vetterling with specialization in private foundations and public charities. Kurt rejoined Blazek & Vetterling in 2017 after several years at Deloitte Tax; working first in the Private Wealth tax practice and later joining the Estate, Gift, Trust and Charitable division of Deloitte's Washington National Tax practice as part of the Management Development Program. At Deloitte, Kurt served clients ranging from passthroughs, high net worth individuals, estates and trusts to nonprofit hospitals and private foundations. 

Kurt first joined Blazek & Vetterling in 2012 with a focus on serving private foundations and public charities, providing compliance and consulting service in the areas of unrelated business taxable income, excise tax on investment income, expenditure requirements, reporting for alternative investments, applications for federal tax exemption and state and local tax issues. He has developed tax technical updates and trainings on the topics of disaster relief issues and tax impacts of the 2017 TCJA on nonprofits. In 2020, he became a member of the AICPA's Technical Resource Panel for Exempt Organizations and contributed to the AICPA comment letter on the guidance around IRC section 512(a)(6) as well as the November 2022 comment letter on security concerns related to private foundation disclosures of individual grant recipients' personal information. He received a B.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in Accountancy from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston. He is a certified public accountant in Texas and member of the AICPA.