Michael J. Jones, CPA

Mike focuses his practice on estate planning. He was listed among CPA Magazine's Top 50 2008 IRS Practitioners and Top 40 Tax Advisors to Know During a Recession 2009.

Mike is the author of Final Regulations Governing Minimum Required Distributions, a Special Supplement to the Pension Answer Book (Panel Publishers, June 2002). He serves as chair of Trusts & Estates magazine's Editorial Advisory Board, Retirement Benefits Committee.

Mike has written over eighty articles on advanced estate planning issues appearing in nationally acclaimed tax publications, and frequently lectures nationwide at continuing education courses for attorneys, CPAs and other financial professionals. He has been quoted in Life and Death Planning for Retirement Benefits (Natalie Choate, 6th Ed. 2006, ATAX publications), New York Times, Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Financial Report and others.

Mike is an avid surfer and paddleboarder at his home break in Carmel, California and occasionally in Hawaii.

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