Sarah I. Staudenraus

Sarah Staudenraus is a partner in KPMG LLP’s Washington National Tax practice in the firm's Passthroughs group. She focuses on the federal tax implications associated with entities taxed as partnerships, including forming and liquidating partnerships, acquisition and sales of partnership interests, current and liquidating property distributions from partnerships, and debt restructurings involving partnerships. Sarah routinely advises on partner allocations and the implications of tax provisions in partnership agreements. She also helps clients structure transactions involving entities taxed as partnerships, and prepares or reviews memoranda, private letter ruling requests, and tax opinions.

Sarah's clients include private equity and alternative investment funds, real estate funds, energy funds, and operating partnerships.

Sarah joined KPMG in 1996 as a direct hire to the U.S. Corporate Tax Group in London, England. While there, she advised primarily U.K. and European clients on their U.S. tax implications associated with inbound U.S. investing and transactions. She also advised U.S. shareholders with respect to the U.S. tax implications of investment in foreign corporations and foreign partnerships. Subsequently, Sarah transferred within KPMG to the Raleigh, North Carolina, office where she provided U.S. income tax advising and compliance services to a variety of clients, predominately foreign private equity funds and companies with international operations. Sarah served as the international tax resource for the Carolinas business unit. Previous to her employment with KPMG, she functioned as a financial accounting comptroller in private industry.

Publications and speaking engagements

• Regularly instructs at KPMG’s tax management training seminars, tax partner training seminars, and internal web-based training
• Served as an instructor of New York University’s Summer Institute of Taxation
• Served as a guest instructor at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
• Presented at the IRS National Tax Forum
• Presented for the AICPA
• The current immediate past Chair of the AICPA Partnerships Technical Resource Panel

About the KPMG Passthroughs group

The Passthroughs group is responsible for providing insight to KPMG professionals and clients regarding the federal taxation of partnerships, real estate investment trusts, and S corporations across all major industries. In addition, the Passthroughs group advises in specialty areas such as like-kind exchanges, oil and gas, leasing, and excise taxes. Client services include transaction structuring, the issuance of opinions, and requesting private letter rulings.