Paul R. Vidas is a Director in Tax Advisory Solutions at CBIZ MHM, LLC where he is responsible for coordinating tax research and tax planning.
As a Director, Paul is responsible for the coordination of all the firms’ governmental audits, tax litigation support, and technical tax review. He has worked on numerous IRS audits involving various taxpayers, including manufacturing concerns, handling matters such as reasonable compensation, accumulated earnings, inventory issues such as LIFO, standard costs and FIFO issues. Paul has worked on Internal Revenue Service audits involving construction contractors handling matters such as long-term contract issues, basis issues, and tax accounting issues. He has also worked on Internal Revenue Service audits involving real estate entities, handling matters such as passive losses, dealers in real property issues and application of at risk rules.
He has assisted in various tax litigation engagements involving Internal Revenue Service controversies, including civil and criminal tax fraud.
As head of technical tax review, Paul has assisted in tax planning associated with international tax matters, tax free mergers, stock acquisitions, redemptions, and asset acquisitions.
He has extensive experience in partnership tax issues as well as international issues for many offshore venues. His prior experience with the Internal Revenue Service and his extensive knowledge of the IRS code and regulations allows Paul to contribute to innovative tax strategies which also protect out clients.
Paul has significant experience in the sales and use tax area where he has handled audits, refund petitions and represented clients before several taxing authorities.
He has participated in projects with the State of Pennsylvania assisting the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in publishing and implementing various technical projects.
Paul started with the national office of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. After a time with a local public accounting firm, he joined Grant Thornton as a Manager in Taxation. Paul has been with CBIZ since 1987.