Byrle Abbin
Managing Director – Washington, DC
Byrle Abbin has over 52 years of experience in tax practice. He is a nationally known authority in federal taxation, specializing in estate planning matters, specifically wealth succession planning and family business continuity for high net worth individuals. He has extensive experience with gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes, and income taxation of fiduciaries and beneficiaries.
Before joining WTAS, Byrle was a partner in an international professional services firm, where after serving clients for many years he became responsible for the firmwide Tax Competence Program and the firm’s National Tax Services Office.
Byrle frequently appears as a speaker at tax and estate planning conferences and training seminars, including the American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) large estates course, the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the New York University Tax Institute, any many other tax institutes nationwide. He also has spoken at two prestigious tax policy meetings: the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the Brookings Institution Conference on Tax Policy in Washington, DC.
Byrle is author or co-author of three tax treatises: Income Taxation of Fiduciaries and Beneficiaries, The Corporate AMT, and Tax Economics of Charitable Giving. He has authored many papers and served on editorial advisory boards for numerous major tax journals, and has served on many technical committees and task forces of professional organizations.
Byrle has served as a director of the American Council for Capital Formation, the Tax Council, the National Association of Estate Planning Councils, and as Chair of the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation. He also has served on the National Conference of Lawyers and CPAs, a joint ABA-AICPA effort. He also was Chair of the American Institute of CPAs Consumption Tax Task Force that issued a definitive study, Flat Tax and Consumption Taxes: The Guide to the Debate.
Email: byrle.abbin@wtas.com
Office: 571.382.0025
Fax: 703.442.0181
Education
- University of Michigan, BBA Accounting
- Harvard Law School
Affiliations
- American Institute of CPAs
- Illinois Institute of CPAs
- Illinois Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Special Awards
- Elijah Watts Sells Gold Medal – Nov. 1959
- Arthur J. Dixon Award – AICPA’s highest career tax-service award
- National Association of Estate Planners and Councils Award – distinguished career service award