Evan Staggs

Evan Staggs, CPA, has more than a decade of experience in tax services and focuses on real estate tax, investment fund structuring and flow-through entity compliance. Evan has a background at Big Four firms and has led the real estate tax group in Southern California at a top ten firm. He advises real estate investors, private equity firms and public and private REITs on tax compliance and strategic planning. Throughout his career, Evan has supported complex client engagements involving partnership taxation, REITs (income/asset testing), asset capitalization, depreciation and 1031 exchange and other transaction due diligence. He has worked closely with CFOs, tax directors and legal teams across retail, hospitality, industrial and office development sectors and brings deep knowledge of property tax strategies and change-in-ownership issues.

Evan is a certified public accountant (CPA) in California. He holds a Master of Science in taxation from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Arts in economics with a minor in accounting from the University of Southern California.