Amy L. Sutton CPA

Amy Sutton is Co-Managing Partner of the Passthroughs Group in the Washington National Tax Office of Deloitte Tax LLP and works in the Houston office. She specializes in partnership taxation with an emphasis on publicly traded partnerships and the use of partnerships in mergers and acquisitions. She joined the National Tax Office in 1998, working in Washington, D.C. from 1998 to 1999 and in New York City from 1999 to 2002.

Prior to joining the National Tax Office, Ms. Sutton practiced from 1990 to 1998 in Deloitte's San Francisco office, where she concentrated on partnership, S corporation, and individual taxation in the real estate and investment fund industries.

Ms. Sutton is a regular instructor and presenter at Deloitte internal conferences, and she has also spoken at recent conferences such as the 30th Annual Texas Federal Tax Institute, NAPAC (North American Petroleum Accounting Conference), the Tax Executives Institute - Houston Chapter Tax School, the Practising Law Institute's Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2014, the 2013 Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference, Navigating the Net Investment Income Tax (Texas Federal Tax Institute), the Tax Executives Institute 68th Annual Conference, the Southern Federal Tax Institute, the Houston Bar Association Tax Section Meeting, and the National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships Annual Meeting.

Ms. Sutton is a Certified Public Accountant and is licensed in the states of California and Texas. She is a member of the AICPA and has served on the AICPA Partnership Taxation Technical Resource Panel. Ms. Sutton is co-author of the on-line treatise, Federal Income Taxation of Passive Activities, published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont, and of the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) portfolio, Publicly Traded Partnerships.

Ms. Sutton received her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and Managerial Studies from Rice University. She continued at Rice University and received a Master's degree in Business Administration, with concentrations in Accounting and Finance, from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business. She received a Master's degree in Taxation from Golden Gate University.

Ms. Sutton resides in Houston, where she is an active alumna of her alma mater, Rice University. She has held positions on the board of the Association of Rice Alumni and on the alumni board of the Jones Graduate School of Business, and is currently on the Board of Trustees.