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Jasper L Cummings Jr

Jasper L Cummings Jr

USA 2026

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Jack has more than 35 years of experience finding solutions for his clients in the realms of federal, international, and state tax. He has argued a case before the Supreme Court and served as IRS associate chief counsel.

Career

IRS associate chief counsel (corporate).

Professional Memberships

Former chair, Corporate Tax Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation.

Publications

Co-author, The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; The Supreme Court’s Federal Tax Jurisprudence; The Supreme Court, Federal and State Taxation and the Constitution; regular column in Tax Notes, “What Were They Thinking?”; Lobbying and Political Expenditures (2020) BNA Portfolio No. 453-1st.

Education

New York University

LLM Taxation

1987

Yale University

JD

1971

Duke University

AB, summa cum laude

1968

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Jasper Cummings offers a wealth of experience advising clients on a range of tax matters and is adept at handling work with cross-border considerations.

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  • He is critical to growth for the tax field, everyone looks to what he's doing and writing for the state of technical tax practice.

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