John Blakeman is a Tax Specialist with the IRS Stakeholder Liaison Division in Portland, Oregon, and works to provide education and outreach to the tax practitioner community as well as small businesses. John began his career with the IRS in 2003 as an Internal Revenue Agent, working a wide variety of individual, corporate, and partnership tax return cases. John also worked many abusive tax avoidance transaction, employment tax, National Research Program, and Earned Income Tax Credit Due Diligence cases. John joined the Stakeholder Liaison team in February 2008, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Portland State University.

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