About Frank Wolpe - Expert and Pioneer in Tax Law and Finance

Frank, shown here in Washington, DC, was recently invited to speak privately with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and senior staff of the House Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committees about reforming the IRS.

Professional Background

Professionally, he’s an attorney and a CPA, who served as a full professor (now Professor Emeritus) and Founding Director of “The Graduate Tax Program” and “The Personal Financial Planning Program,” both at Bentley University.  In his other role as a taxpayer defense counsel, he has been honored and humbled to serve clients, much as he served his students.  A synopsis of how he did all that includes work as:

• Founding  Chair of a National Institute on Federal Taxation, First at Boston University School of Law, and then again, at the Center for Tax Studies - Bentley University and the Massachusetts Association of Accountants;
• High-level appointments in Washington, DC, to the IRS Commissioner’s Advisory Group;  Consultant to the U.S. Treasury during the administrations of President Carter and as Special Consultant on IRS matters to President Reagan’s Private Sector Survey (where he was one of the Grace Commission’s few Democratic Party members.)
• Membership in the Bar for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States Tax Court, and the Federal District Court at Boston; 
  
• Active involvement with the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA);
  
• Elected as President of the Boston Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (now, past president), involved as a former member of the Board of Delegates of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Massachusetts Association of Accountants; and
  
• Military service as an active and reserve U.S. Army officer with the rank of Major; and 

Having published and spoken throughout the nation, his  most recent major publication about fixing what’s broken in the Federal government is “The Rebuild IRS Initiative” abstracted and published by American Bar Association Section of Taxation NewsQuarterly (as its cover story), Winter Issue 2014.