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Raymond Kumar
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Raymond Kumar, Director
Raymond Kumar is a CPA and Director with Energy Tax Savers/R&D Tax Savers. He joined the firm in 2008 and brings with him Big4 accounting firm experience, where he helped secure specialty tax incentives for Fortune 500 automakers, defense contractors, and consumer goods manufacturers. His tax expertise includes Section 179D incentives and R&D Tax Credits which he has specialized in his entire professional career.
Mr. Kumar plays a key role in managing of the firm’s national Section 179D practice, working closely with clients and partners to identify and quantify tax savings. He is involved in every step of the process to ensure project success.
Mr. Kumar is a frequent author and presenter on tax incentives and has presented at the Human Centric Sustainability Event at Yankee Stadium, Energize Long Island conference, and the NYS Society of Professional Engineers Annual Conference. He has numerous published articles covering tax incentives, featured in Retrofit Magazine, Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, and FacilitiesNet.
Mr. Kumar holds a BBA in Accounting from Adelphi University and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business. Mr. Kumar is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed to practice in New York.
Charles R. Goulding
President
Charles R. Goulding is an Attorney/CPA, President and founder of Energy Tax Savers/R&D Tax Savers, two divisions of a national tax consulting firm. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Cooper Industries Inc. (now Eaton) in Houston, Texas. Before joining Cooper, Mr. Goulding was a vice president of Dover Corporation, an eight billion dollar sales NYSE diversified industrial manufacturer. At both companies, Mr. Goulding created and administered company-wide R&D Tax Credit programs. These programs encompassed both domestic and international business operations and have helped generate over $600 million in tax savings for their respective firms. Mr. Goulding has been at the forefront of R&D Tax Credit work since the credit’s inception in 1981.
Mr. Goulding has a law degree from Brooklyn Law School (Juris Doctor) and an MBA from Adelphi University. Mr. Goulding also participated in Pace University’s Doctor of Business Administration Program. His undergraduate degree is from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he was a double major in Political Science and Economics. He spent his junior year abroad at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mr. Goulding is a former President of the New York Chapter of the Tax Executives Institute and also participated in Pace University’s Doctor of Business Administration Program. He has served as the co-chairman of the Taxation of Mergers and Acquisition conferences in Chicago, Houston, New York City, San Francisco and Paris, France. He recently chaired New York’s Solar Investment Conference.
He has authored over 800 articles for numerous tax publications including International Business, International Tax Journal, Euromoney, Taxation for Accountants, The Practical Accountant, The CPA Journal, and Corporate Business Taxation Monthly.
Mr. Goulding successfully litigated the Dover Corporation case in U.S. Tax Court (the first check the box case) and the Pulsar International case on reasonable compensation. He is also the Mayor of the Village of Oyster Bay Cove, New York