Kansas Income Tax Institute

Roger McEowen is Professor of Agricultural Law and Taxation, Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, KS. 

Through 2015, he was the Leonard Dolezal Professor in Agricultural Law at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he was also the Director of the ISU Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation, which he founded. Before joining Iowa State in 2004, he was an associate professor of agricultural law and extension specialist in agricultural law and policy at Kansas State. From 1991-1993, McEowen was in the full-time practice of law with Kelley, Scritsmier and Byrne in North Platte, Nebraska. McEowen has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, teaching in both the J.D. and L.L.M. programs. He has taught at Washburn Law and the Drake University School of Law Summer Institute in Agricultural Law.

He has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Agricultural Taxation and Law, Indiana Law Review, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, North Dakota Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, Tax Notes, West's Social Security Reporting System, Toledo Law Review, Washburn Law Journal, Creighton Law Review, Agricultural Law Update, and the Agricultural Law Digest. He is the author of Principles of Agricultural Law, an 850-page textbook/casebook that is updated twice annually, and a second 300-page book on agricultural law. McEowen also authors the monthly publication, "Kansas Farm and Estate Law." In addition, he co-authors Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) Tax Management Portfolios on the federal estate tax family-owned business deduction and the reporting of farm income, and is the lead author of a BNA portfolio concerning the income taxation of cooperatives.

McEowen conducts approximately 80-100 seminars annually across the United States for farmers, agricultural business professionals, lawyers, and other tax professionals. He also conducts two radio programs each airing twice monthly heard across the Midwest and on the worldwide web. He also can be seen as a frequent guest on Ag Day TV and other Farm Journal media outlets.

In 2003, McEowen was named the recipient of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA) Distinguished Service Award. He is also the recipient of the AALA's award of excellence for professional scholarship. In 2006, McEowen was named the President-Elect of the AALA. He received a B.S. with distinction from Purdue University in Management in 1986, an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University in 1990, and a J.D. from the Drake University School of Law in 1991. He is a member of the Iowa and Kansas Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in Nebraska. He is also a past member of the AALA Board of Directors.

Paul Neiffer is a CPA and retired from CliftonLarsonAllen. He is the author of the farmcpatoday.com blog.

Edward A. Morse holds the McGrath, North endowed chair in Business Law at Creighton University School of Law, where he teaches courses involving taxation, antitrust, and business associations.  He is also a senior affiliated scholar in the Institute for Economic Inquiry at the Heider College of Business.  He is admitted to the Nebraska bar and is also a CPA (Iowa).  He serves as vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Cyberspace Law, and he is a fellow in the Nebraska Bar Foundation.  He and his wife, Susan, raise cattle together on their family farm outside of Council Bluffs, Iowa.  They have five children and eight grandchildren. His faculty webpage can be found at   http://law.creighton.edu/directory/edward-morse.   

Cathy Murphy is the principal owner of Kingdom CPA Service LLC.  She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and is licensed as a certified public accountant by the state of Illinois. Cathy is also an Enrolled Agent with the IRS that covers all 50 states.

Prior to starting the firm, Cathy has done work for other Tax Practices in Illinois.  She teaches at various tax schools and seminars throughout Illinois and Missouri. Cathy retired from IRS in 2014, after 30 years. She worked the last 10 years with IRS as a Senior Tax Specialist, teaching and helping other tax professionals in Kansas, Illinois and Missouri as an IRS Liaison. Prior to that position, Cathy was a Senior Revenue Agent with the IRS for 20 Years.  In the former position, she audited tax returns of individuals, small businesses, trusts, partnerships and corporations.

Carl York is a Tax Specialist at the Topeka Regional Office of the Kansas Department of Revenue.