Joint Federal & State Taxation Interest Groups Meeting and Technical Session (E2410178)

Kristen De Noia is a Tax Manager at EisnerAmper LLP with more than 10 years of tax compliance and planning experience. Her areas of focus are personal and fiduciary income taxation, gift taxation and trusts and estates. Kristen’s clients include high net worth families and closely held business owners.

Kristen is an adjunct professor at Farleigh Dickinson University’s Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies where she teaches core courses in the areas of estates, trusts and wills.

Prior to joining the firm, Kristen was an attorney at a boutique law firm specializing in the representation of small business owners, franchisors, and franchisees. Kristen was responsible for estate and business succession planning, corporate and individual tax issues and family business matters. In addition she worked as a legal editor at a leading tax research firm.

Kristen is a frequent presenter at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, and she is a member of the firm’s Tax Legislation Monitoring Group where she is a contributing author.

Miri Forster is a Principal and Co-Leader of the Tax Controversy Practice, specializing in providing tax dispute resolution services to public and private corporations, partnerships and high net worth individuals on a wide range of technical and procedural issues. She has over 20 years of IRS practice, procedure, and tax controversy experience. Miri represents businesses and individuals before the IRS Examination and Appeals Divisions on complex domestic and international tax issues. She also obtains private letter rulings from the IRS National Office, including 9100 relief requests for missed elections. Miri assists clients with voluntary disclosures of inadvertent income, international information return, withholding, and payroll tax compliance errors, obtains penalty abatements and refunds, resolves IRS account issues, and advises on a broad range of IRS practice, procedure and dispute resolution matters. Prior to joining the firm, Miri was a Tax Controversy Principal at a Big 4 firm. Miri also previously served as an Attorney-Advisor at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C., and is an attorney licensed in the states of New York and New Jersey as well as Washington, D.C. Miri is a frequent speaker on IRS enforcement trends, the centralized partnership audit regime and its impact on pass-through entities and investors, voluntary disclosures of inadvertent tax compliance matters and related penalties, and other IRS practice, procedure and dispute resolution topics.

Marita was appointed the acting director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation, effective Sept. 25, 2023. She had been a deputy director since 2017 and started at the Treasury Department in 1987 as a technical assistant. She steps into her new role as the tax division takes on lawmakers’ overhaul of New Jersey’s corporate tax system and creation of StayNJ, a property tax relief program for senior citizens. Her goals include improving the customer experience, facilitating tax education with the public and engaging with employees.