Scott Nielson, CPA
Partner, Director of Tax
Scott Nielson is a CPA and Partner at Cooper Norman, where he serves as Director of Tax. He leads the firm's Tax Planning & Advisory work, which means the tax position of a business is a decision he helps shape all year, not a number reported back to you in April. Owners bring him the moves that change what they owe, and he tells them what each one actually costs.
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About Scott
As Director of Tax, Scott sets how Cooper Norman approaches tax planning across six offices in Idaho and Utah, and he works the file directly. The questions that reach him are the ones with a tax consequence attached to a business decision: how the entity is structured, how owners take compensation, what happens to the tax picture when equipment is purchased, when a building changes hands, when a second location opens, or when a partner's stake shifts. He works these through before the year closes, because that is when the answer can still change.
Because Cooper Norman runs as one connected team, Scott's tax work does not sit apart from the rest of the file. When a valuation, an audit, or a transition plan is in motion, the tax read is part of the same conversation instead of a separate opinion delivered later. What an owner can expect from working with him is a clear position, the reasoning behind it, and a straight answer about which choices are open and which ones have already been made.
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