Vagif Isakhanli, CPA, MBA, MST, Managing Director at RRBB Advisors, LLC, was published by the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA).

“It is critical to satisfy the unique needs of many industries in the rapidly changing financial and taxation landscape. I hope to provide businesses with valuable insights to help them negotiate challenges and make wise decisions,” said Vagif.

New Jersey CPA Articles

“Essential Year-End Planning Tasks for CPA Firms” was published online on December 1, 2023. Vagif offers insights into important factors accounting firms must consider after the busy season, such as the significance of continuous professional growth, strategic marketing plans, human resource issues, and embracing technological breakthroughs for increased productivity.

In addition, “Giving Tech and Biotech Startups a Leg Up” explores companies’ unique potential and difficulties in the technology and biotechnology sectors. The article is on page 16 of New Jersey CPA magazine’s Winter 2023–2024 issue. Here, Vagif focuses on the financial environment of these ever-changing industries. He offers strategic financial management, tax planning, and compliance assistance.

About Vagif Isakhanli

Vagif assists clients in achieving legal ways to reduce their tax burdens. His primary focus is on federal corporate income tax issues. This includes advising on income tax accrual matters, tax department internal controls, tax compliance, foreign tax, and tax planning. Vagif has extensive tax expertise in Subchapter C, S-Corporations, and partnerships. He has diverse client experience in the technology, manufacturing, real estate, medical, and retail industries.

With over 15 years of experience in public accounting, Vagif now specializes in corporate entities, mergers and acquisitions, foreign tax, and accounting for income taxes. Further, he performs withholding taxes, income tax treaty analysis, and check-the-box planning for foreign entities. Vagif calculates foreign earned income exclusion and foreign tax credits and helps with foreign informational reporting. Because he is a native speaker of Russian, Azerbaijani, and Turkish, Vagif can ease the foreign-based client experience. Ultimately, he helps clients comply with federal, state, and international tax laws.

Vagif is an active member of the NJCPA, serving in the Federal and State Service Groups. Therefore, he stays current on all tax law changes that affect individuals and corporations, both locally in the United States and abroad. Vagif received his Master of Business Administration in Accounting in 2005 and his Master of Studies in Taxation in 2011 from Rutgers University-Newark. He received his Bachelor of Economics from Istanbul University in Turkey in 1999.