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First Name
Jonathan

Last Name
Brignall

Email
[email protected]

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Title
Assistant Professor

Office
SCB 3150

Phone
(616) 331-7504

Department
School of Accounting

Expertise

• IRS Procedure
• Corporate Income Tax

Biography

Jonathan is a licensed attorney and CPA. He has extensive professional experience in taxation, including 14 years in public accounting and over 10 years as a Revenue Agent with the Internal Revenue Service. While at the IRS, he was a subject matter expert in financial instruments taxation and was part of a revenue agent training team. He has also served as a law clerk for the Michigan Tax Tribunal and a research attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals. While in law school, Jonathan was the Editor-in-Chief of the WMU-Cooley Law Review.

A classical guitarist, Jonathan is the president of Kalamazoo Classical Guitar, an organization which sponsors classical guitar performances. Jonathan is a proud GVSU alumnus.

Education

• J.D., WMU, Cooley Law School
• M.B.A., Grand Valley State University
• M.S.T., Grand Valley State University
• M.Acc., University of South Florida
• M.S., Accounting, University of South Florida

Teaching Areas

• Individual Taxation
• Entities Taxation
• Tax Practice and Procedure
• Multistate Taxation

Publications

• Substantive tax provisions
• IRS audit procedures and effectiveness
• Taxation of banks and financial instruments
• Constitutional limitations on states ability to tax
• Plain language in taxation
   
• Brignall, J. with Joseph Kimble (2020). Plain Language, A Medical Power of Attorney. Michigan Bar Journal, July 2020, 42-47.

Service

Faculty Coordinator of the GVSU VITA program, operated in partnership with the Heart of West Michigan United Way and the IRS.

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