Steve Barkmeier Email & Phone Number

Littleton, Co, Us

Head of tax practice.

Denver, Co, Us

MediaNews Group is a billion dollar newspaper company that includes 19 corporations, 11 partnerships, and 25 disregarded entities with 6,500 employees operating in 16 states.• Collaborated with other MediaNews Group executives to grow the company from the 12th largest newspaper company in the U.S. to the second largest.• Planned acquisition and disposition transactions to minimize taxes and maximize tax attributes using 1031 exchanges and partnership structures.• Coordinated with other MediaNews Group executives and lawyers to form partnerships in order to expand the Company with minimum capital.• Determined the tax effects of the Company's bankruptcy restructuring. Planned the application of the reduction of tax attributes for cancellation of debt so that over $300 million of the reduction was applied in ways that did not reduce future depreciation, amortization, or net operating losses.• Designed tax provision application within financial reporting software to simplify tracking of book basis, tax basis, and temporary differences.• Managed revaluation of all assets for fresh start accounting in fixed assets system including tracking of eliminations company adjustments.• Negotiated favorable settlements of sales and use tax assessments.• Resolved payroll tax assessments for successor employer issues.• Developed an efficient tax department able to meet the compliance and tax provisions needs of a very complex organization with only three staff..• Initiated project at Newspaper Association of America to provide newspaper equipment sale information to reduce property taxes on production equipment.• Centralized property tax function and generated over two million dollars in refunds in 2013.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Responsible for income tax compliance, income tax planning, and income tax accounting for second largest cable company in U.S. with operations in 49 states. • Led the implementation of new deferred tax standards for FAS 96 and FAS 109 and designed a relational database to perform all required calculations.• Calculated effects of new depreciation and amortization allocation regulations for partnerships.• Collaborated with lawyers to structure partnership agreements to comply with new substantial economic effect regulations• Organized and implemented system to claim investment tax credit under transition rules.