Sampath-kumar Kanagarathnam is an IRS Enrolled Agent & Accredited Tax Advisor with a combined experience of more than 25 years in Government Treasury service, Public Accounting, and Taxation. “Enrolled agent” is a designation provided by the IRS as federally licensed tax practitioners who specialize in taxation and also have unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS in all 50 states. Additionally, Sampath holds “Accredited Tax Advisor”, a premier national tax credential for practitioners who handle sophisticated tax planning issues for individuals and business entities.

For more than five years, Mr. Sampath was working as Senior Tax Accountant at HP & Associates in Farmington Hills, MI. He was preparing over 1000 tax returns in each tax year in 5 tax seasons. He has good experience both in personal and business tax returns. He was experienced in complex tax returns that include multiple states, stock transactions, rental properties, self-employment income, home office, itemized deductions, Non-residents, applying ITIN, expat tax returns, high net-worth clients, etc. He has good experience in the Corporations, S-corporations, and partnership tax returns.

He was working in Government Treasury department in Chennai, India. His wife is a software engineer and due to her job, he took voluntary retirement and immigrated to Michigan, USA. He had his Bachelor degree in Sociology and Masters in Political Science. In twenty years of Government Treasury service, he had solid experience in various Treasury functions including complex multi-departmental accounting, Government employees’ salary, and pension. His long experience in verifying and approving Government employees’ income tax returns each year helped him to adapt to US taxation easily. Due to his Treasury back ground, he always has service mentality than business mentality.

Whoever had experience with Mr. Sampath in the past might know his dedication, sincerity, honesty, promptness, and follow-up. While in Government service and in HP & Associates, he was complemented both by peers & clients for his dedication to the public & clients respectively.

Mr. Sampath is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the National Association of Enrolled Agents, Michigan Society of Enrolled Agents, and National Association of Tax Professionals.