Michael K. Hauser

MICHAEL K. HAUSER is a CPA and a summa cum laude graduate of Wayne State Law School. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. His practice focuses on partnership and corporate tax, federal taxation of real estate transactions, gift and estate tax, and general business matters. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Cooley Law School LLM program, where he teaches Taxation of Real Estate. He is the author of “Avoiding Dealer Status to Obtain Capital Gains,” and "Dealer Status and the Condominium Conversion," both of which were published in the Journal of Real Estate Taxation. He formerly worked in a mid-sized CPA firm in suburban Detroit servicing small to mid-sized businesses. In law school, he served as a Note & Comment Editor for the Wayne Law Review, for which he authored "The Tax Treatment of Intangibles in Acquisitions of Residential Rental Real Estate,". He also served as an intern with the IRS Chief Counsel's Large and Mid-Sized Business Division, where he researched international tax and tax shelter issues.