Kevin Carmichael MS JD LLM CPA, is a Tax Partner with the Naples office of Wood, Buckel, & Carmichael. He is admitted to practice before the US District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the US Claims Court and the US Tax Court. Mr. Carmichael is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants. His practice focuses primarily on matters concerning business entity law, federal and state taxation, international tax and tax controversy, not for profit, estate planning and business succession planning law.
He is a founding director of the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula Florida and recently stepped down as Chairman after serving for 12 years. He has a great deal of legal, accounting and governance experience as a director, officer and advisor of not for profit organizations. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy and the Board of Governors of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He presently is Vice-Chairman of the FGCU Accounting and Tax Conference run by the FICPA. he is co-chair of the Ave Maria Law School Estate Planning Conference. He taught business law and cost accounting as an adjunct professor at Florida Gulf Coast University for 6 years. He taught Income Tax Law at Ave Maria Law School in the Spring of 2012, Corporate Tax in 2013 and Partnership Tax in the Spring of 2014, 2015 and 2106 and Exempt Organization Tax law in the fall of 2014.
He is fluent in Spanish.