Philip M. Tatarowicz

B.A., Illinois Benedictine University; J.D., Northern Illinois University; LL.M.(Taxation), Georgetown; CPA. Professor Tatarowicz is a Partner and Ernst & Young's National Director of State and Local Tax Technical Services. In this role, he is responsible for assisting the firm's clients and offices worldwide in multistate tax matters, coordinating the development and quality of its state and local tax practice and directing its National Tax Department's State and Local Tax Group. He also is a member of the firm's State Tax Committee, and has been active in a number of industry/state tax reform commissions, professional advisory boards, and other professional organizations. In addition to being the former chairman of the American Bar Association's Subcommittee on Interstate Transactions, he is Vice-Chair of the ABA's Section of Taxation Committee on State and Local Taxation, as well as its Executive Board, and is a member of the Illinois Bar Association, and the American Institute of CPAs. He serves on the State Tax Advisory Boards for several publishers, including Commerce Clearing House; Bureau of National Affairs, Panel Publications, and Warren, Gorham & Lamont. He is a former chairman of the Subcommittee on Sales, Excise, and Miscellaneous Taxes of the Chicago Bar Association, the State Tax Committee of the District of Columbia Institute of CPAs, and the Tax Committee of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. Adjunct professor Tatarowicz has written numerous tax publications and articles and is a frequent chairman and speaker on state and local taxation for such organizations as the Tax Executives Institute, the New York University Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Council on State Taxation, the American Bar Association, and the American Institute of CPAs.