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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
onathan 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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