Bruce Warner Email & Phone Number

Bruce Warner’s career spans over 25 years as Tax Counsel to a large corporation, and a former Principal with Deloitte Tax LLP in their R&D practice heading up the Mid-West Region and as a Deloitte national specialist in software R&D and IRS audit defense.Mr. Warner was also an attorney with IRS District Counsel and co-counsel on the IRS Research Credit ISP team. Bruce worked full-time on R&D issues with the IRS Research Credit team and was on the government's trial team on Norwest v. Commissioner, 110 T.C. 454 (1998) and Wicor v. United States, 116 F. Supp 2d 1028 (E.D. Wisc. 2000) both of which are leading software R&D cases. Bruce Warner authored the IRS coordinated issue paper on internal-use software and the IRS field directive guidance on the use of sampling in R&D cases. Bruce also assisted in training the IRS software consultants from the MITRE Corporation, as well as IRS agents and engineers throughout the country on the examination of R&D issues. Bruce’s industry experience in R&D tax credits includes government contractors, software development companies, energy, media/entertainment, manufacturing and other industries. Bruce also leads Warner Robinson's Section 45L Energy Tax Credit practice and has helped numerous companies with energy incentives nationwide. The Section 45L Energy Efficient Home tax credit is worth $2,000 per door and applies to single family and multi-family developers/investors. We have an engineer on staff and the IRS approved software to conduct 45L energy studies and have helped numerous developers obtain millions in tax credits from this program since 2014.

Listed skills include Tax, Corporate Tax, Software Development, Accounting, and 10 others.