Mark Barker, CPA – Partner

Mark has been providing tax consulting and compliance services to clients since 1985. Mark’s primary focus is on real estate, hospitality, and closely held businesses. His clients include publicly traded REITS, SEC registered investment funds and opportunistic real estate owners/operators. He provides consultation on tax issues such as the following:

• Consultation and structuring regarding business entity selection for tax efficiency and liability protection 
• Tax planning and structuring for real estate partnership transactions
• Tax planning and  structuring for REIT formation transactions and asset acquisitions
• Consulting on REIT asset and income tests
• Preparation of FAS 109 tax calculations for financial statement reporting
• Oversight and management of large-scale federal and state tax compliance engagements
• Consulting on like kind exchange transactions and on Tenancy-In-Common structures
• Consulting regarding the tax aspects of business purchase and sale transactions
• Structuring investments to accommodate tax exempt investors that need to minimize or eliminate UBTI,
• Preparation of real estate cost segregation studies

Prior to Barker Viggato, LLP Mark served as a tax partner in the Dallas office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, where he specialized in real estate and investment management clients. He has instructed courses on partnership taxation, REITs and client seminars. 

Mark holds his CPA license in Texas and is a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Mark graduated from the University of North Texas with a Master of Science in Accounting.