Corporate Tax Incentives

Principals

Taz Singh

Taz has extensive experience working as a tax auditor and tax consultant in the area of tax incentives and credits. Prior to establishing CTI, Taz worked as a corporate tax auditor for the California Franchise Tax Board and as a tax consultant with a national accounting firm and a local consulting firm.
While employed at the Franchise Tax Board, Taz specialized in auditing tax credits, including Manufacturer’s Investment Credits, Research & Development Credits and credit limitations (IRC 382 Limitation) due to ownership changes. Taz was a member of the Manufacturers’ Investment Credit Technical Advisory Team and Manufacturers’ Investment Credit Field Audit Team, which dealt with setting audit policies and providing training and guidelines to auditors examining these credits. In addition, Taz was involved in providing training and technical guidance to auditors examining taxpayers claiming Research Credits and the Enterprise Zone Credits.

During his tenure of employment with the national accounting and local consulting firms, Taz managed various California tax incentive projects. These projects include but were not limited to the preparation and audit representation of Manufacturers’ Investment Credits, Research and Development Credits, and Enterprise Zone Tax Credits for various local and multinational clients.

Darren Labrie, CPA

Darren brings over 17 years of experience in the areas of tax and business incentives. In his current role, he focuses on the overall operations of the practice and bringing a higher level of service to our clients.

Darren’s responsibilities include identifying, qualifying and negotiating various tax and non-tax related statutory and economic development incentives. Darren works closely with his contacts at the various state agencies charged with the administration of business incentives to realize the maximum benefit for our clients. He has helped realize significant benefits in areas such as investment and job creation credits, federal/state/local benefits related to renewable energy, training credits and grants, work opportunity tax credits, sales and use tax abatements, enterprise zone credits, federal empowerment zone credits, welfare to work programs and other notable programs.

Prior to joining CTI, Darren Labrie served as the West Region Business Incentives Leader for Ernst & Young’s State and Local Tax Practice. Darren’s efforts resulted in millions of dollars of tax and financial savings through the garnering of federal, state, and local incentives for Fortune 100 companies. In addition, he spent several years working for the Franchise Tax Board as an audit supervisor where he forged many of the key relationships he relies upon today. Darren is a licensed CPA in the state of California .

Frank Liang

Frank is the key architect behind our company’s suite of technology product and service. By incorporating technology solutions into our practice, he brings efficiency to our internal consulting business and better support for our external partners.

Frank brings over 10 years of software development and product management experience to CTI. He works closely with our outsourced R&D center in China. Before CTI, he was one of the infrastructure platform architects at LucidEra, a SaaS start-up company specialized in BI analytics and reporting. Prior to that, he was working in the customer relationship marketing (CRM) space in Siebel Systems, Inc., where he led the development of analytics integrations for the Siebel OnDemand. He has held other positions in engineering and product management at software firms including Macromedia and KANA. He has earned a BS degree in Computer Science from University of California Berkeley.