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Sara Bailey
Principal
National Practice Leader, Agribusiness
CPA

Biography

Sara has practiced public accounting since 2011. She provides tax planning, compliance, entity structuring, and long-term succession planning services to clients in the food and agriculture industries. She works with closely held family-owned businesses as well as institutional and private equity owned companies and has a deep understanding of the complex tax issues and opportunities facing production agriculture businesses.

Sara’s experience also includes federal and state tax compliance and planning services for partnerships, S corporations, and individuals. She provides federal and state income tax planning services to companies with complex M&A activity as well as transition and succession planning for multigenerational family businesses.

Professional Affiliations

  • Committee Member, Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants Political Action Committee
  • Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Member, Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • Member, Salinas Chamber of Commerce

Community Involvement

  • Past-Chair, Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants Board

Education

  • BS, accounting, Central Washington University
  • MBA, Indiana University
  • MS, agriculture economics, Purdue University

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