Accountants Liability: Balancing Risk and Reward (Tax Focus)

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Jan Lewis is a Tax Partner with BMSS Advisors and CPAs in Ridgeland MS. Her responsibilities include income and estate tax planning, research, and compliance for individual and business clients. Her areas of practice include healthcare, oil & gas, construction, real estate, and high net worth individuals. She has taught continuing education classes throughout Mississippi and nationwide to CPAs in the areas of income tax planning, business tax matters, and S Corporation tax matters, and has given presentations on financial literacy, tax reform, and other tax issues to various groups across the country. Jan has authored articles on tax matters for the Tax Adviser publication and has served as a webcast presenter for the AICPA’s Tax Division. She has been interviewed by Fox Business News, NPR, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Bankrate, and the Detroit Free Press for her insight on various policy and practice matters affecting taxpayers. She was selected as one of Forbes Top 200 CPAs in America in 2024. Jan is active in the Mississippi Society of CPAs, previously serving as President of the Society, a member of the MSCPA Board of Governors, an officer of the Society’s Central Chapter, and a trustee of the Mississippi Tax Institute. Jan currently is a member of the MSCPA's Long Range Planning Committee and the MSCPA's Young CPAs Liaison Committee. Jan has held many leadership roles within the AICPA throughout her career. She has served as the MSCPA’s elected representative to the AICPA Council, and on the AICPA Life Insurance and Disability Plans Committee. She was a member and chair of the AICPA's Tax Practice and Procedures Committee, and member and chair of the AICPA's Tax Executive Committee, the senior committee overseeing the work of all Tax Division committees and technical resource panels. Jan has served on the AICPA Board of Directors since 2023. She was recently elected as Vice Chair of the AICPA, and in that role, Jan is part of the executive committee that directs the strategic vision of both the AICPA and the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association). As Vice Chair, Jan looks forward to working with the Association to be the global voice of accounting and finance professionals worldwide, while advocating for the profession, the public and her clients. Jan is a native of Jackson, MS, and a 1985 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Mississippi State University. She is a member and past chair of the Adkerson School of Accountancy Advisory Board at MSU and was selected as the MSU College of Business's Alumni Fellow for 2016. She was chosen as MSU Beta Alpha Psi Alumnus of the Year in 2000. Jan and her husband, John, live in Jackson with their spoiled dachshunds, Connie, Rocky and Snoop.

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