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Darin Zywan

Darin Zywan

Darin Zywan is Principal, Corporate Tax at KPMG's Washington National Tax practice in Washington, D.C.

Sep 8, 2026

10:39
Who do you remember working with whose career path or whose way of living a career like this was the most resonant with you that you wanted to emulate the most?
10:49
Well, at this point, I didn't really have that person, Len.
10:53
When I started at Cooper's, I was in a state and local practice.
10:56
That's state and local, which means state and local taxation, right? Salt, state and local taxation.
11:02
And I had done some summer work at a small firm doing that.
11:06
And what I very rapidly figured out was the people that were great state and local practitioners, they all had a federal background.
11:16
And you could just see how fluid they were with the federal rules and then the state overlay.

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25:39
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