Steve Barkmeier
Director of Tax at WhippleWood CPAs PC- Claim this Profile
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Bruce Nelson
Steve manages to combine two traits that are often found individually, but not often together. He sees and appreciates the often arcane detail necessary to be successful in tax, while not losing sight of the larger company context in which it must serve -- an excellent combination for a VP of tax.
Ron Mayo
I worked with Steve for over 18 years at MediaNews Group (a billion dollar revenue company) where Steve was the tax director and vice president of tax. I highly recommend Steve and his skills as a tax professional. Steve’s tax planning and analysis was instrumental in structuring numerous financing as well as acquisition and disposition transactions and creating structures to minimize current and future cash taxes. Steve provided valuable insight in managing MediaNews Group’s complex legal structure which included numerous corporations, partnerships, and LLCs and did a great job in minimizing federal state and local taxes in a complex corporate structure. Steve managed a lean tax department and was able to achieve outstanding results in tax compliance and planning. Steve also has expert knowledge in accounting for income taxes, including the quarterly and annual tax provisions and the required financial disclosures. When audited by federal, state or local tax authorities, Steve and his tax team provided MediaNews with audit results that produced minimal audit adjustments.
Bruce Nelson
Steve manages to combine two traits that are often found individually, but not often together. He sees and appreciates the often arcane detail necessary to be successful in tax, while not losing sight of the larger company context in which it must serve -- an excellent combination for a VP of tax.
Ron Mayo
I worked with Steve for over 18 years at MediaNews Group (a billion dollar revenue company) where Steve was the tax director and vice president of tax. I highly recommend Steve and his skills as a tax professional. Steve’s tax planning and analysis was instrumental in structuring numerous financing as well as acquisition and disposition transactions and creating structures to minimize current and future cash taxes. Steve provided valuable insight in managing MediaNews Group’s complex legal structure which included numerous corporations, partnerships, and LLCs and did a great job in minimizing federal state and local taxes in a complex corporate structure. Steve managed a lean tax department and was able to achieve outstanding results in tax compliance and planning. Steve also has expert knowledge in accounting for income taxes, including the quarterly and annual tax provisions and the required financial disclosures. When audited by federal, state or local tax authorities, Steve and his tax team provided MediaNews with audit results that produced minimal audit adjustments.
Bruce Nelson
Steve manages to combine two traits that are often found individually, but not often together. He sees and appreciates the often arcane detail necessary to be successful in tax, while not losing sight of the larger company context in which it must serve -- an excellent combination for a VP of tax.
Ron Mayo
I worked with Steve for over 18 years at MediaNews Group (a billion dollar revenue company) where Steve was the tax director and vice president of tax. I highly recommend Steve and his skills as a tax professional. Steve’s tax planning and analysis was instrumental in structuring numerous financing as well as acquisition and disposition transactions and creating structures to minimize current and future cash taxes. Steve provided valuable insight in managing MediaNews Group’s complex legal structure which included numerous corporations, partnerships, and LLCs and did a great job in minimizing federal state and local taxes in a complex corporate structure. Steve managed a lean tax department and was able to achieve outstanding results in tax compliance and planning. Steve also has expert knowledge in accounting for income taxes, including the quarterly and annual tax provisions and the required financial disclosures. When audited by federal, state or local tax authorities, Steve and his tax team provided MediaNews with audit results that produced minimal audit adjustments.
Bruce Nelson
Steve manages to combine two traits that are often found individually, but not often together. He sees and appreciates the often arcane detail necessary to be successful in tax, while not losing sight of the larger company context in which it must serve -- an excellent combination for a VP of tax.
Ron Mayo
I worked with Steve for over 18 years at MediaNews Group (a billion dollar revenue company) where Steve was the tax director and vice president of tax. I highly recommend Steve and his skills as a tax professional. Steve’s tax planning and analysis was instrumental in structuring numerous financing as well as acquisition and disposition transactions and creating structures to minimize current and future cash taxes. Steve provided valuable insight in managing MediaNews Group’s complex legal structure which included numerous corporations, partnerships, and LLCs and did a great job in minimizing federal state and local taxes in a complex corporate structure. Steve managed a lean tax department and was able to achieve outstanding results in tax compliance and planning. Steve also has expert knowledge in accounting for income taxes, including the quarterly and annual tax provisions and the required financial disclosures. When audited by federal, state or local tax authorities, Steve and his tax team provided MediaNews with audit results that produced minimal audit adjustments.
Credentials
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CPA
Colorado Board of AccountancyJan, 1985- Oct, 2024
Experience
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WhippleWood CPAs PC
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United States
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Accounting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Tax
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2015 - Present
Head of tax practice. Head of tax practice.
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Future Tax Leaders
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United States
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Professional Training and Coaching
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Former Chairman of Denver Chapter
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2015 - 2016
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Vice President Tax
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1995 - 2015
MediaNews Group is a billion dollar newspaper company that includes 19 corporations, 11 partnerships, and 25 disregarded entities with 6,500 employees operating in 16 states. • Collaborated with other MediaNews Group executives to grow the company from the 12th largest newspaper company in the U.S. to the second largest. • Planned acquisition and disposition transactions to minimize taxes and maximize tax attributes using 1031 exchanges and partnership structures. • Coordinated with other MediaNews Group executives and lawyers to form partnerships in order to expand the Company with minimum capital. • Determined the tax effects of the Company's bankruptcy restructuring. Planned the application of the reduction of tax attributes for cancellation of debt so that over $300 million of the reduction was applied in ways that did not reduce future depreciation, amortization, or net operating losses. • Designed tax provision application within financial reporting software to simplify tracking of book basis, tax basis, and temporary differences. • Managed revaluation of all assets for fresh start accounting in fixed assets system including tracking of eliminations company adjustments. • Negotiated favorable settlements of sales and use tax assessments. • Resolved payroll tax assessments for successor employer issues. • Developed an efficient tax department able to meet the compliance and tax provisions needs of a very complex organization with only three staff.. • Initiated project at Newspaper Association of America to provide newspaper equipment sale information to reduce property taxes on production equipment. • Centralized property tax function and generated over two million dollars in refunds in 2013. Show less
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Time Warner Cable
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Tax Manager
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1985 - 1995
Responsible for income tax compliance, income tax planning, and income tax accounting for second largest cable company in U.S. with operations in 49 states. • Led the implementation of new deferred tax standards for FAS 96 and FAS 109 and designed a relational database to perform all required calculations. • Calculated effects of new depreciation and amortization allocation regulations for partnerships. • Collaborated with lawyers to structure partnership agreements to comply with new substantial economic effect regulations • Organized and implemented system to claim investment tax credit under transition rules. Show less
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Education
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Regis University
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
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