The people behind your US filing.

Christopher brings a strong financial background to American Pacific Tax, with over 13 years of US taxation and business financial management experience. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in the State of Hawaii, USA. He began his career at Grant Thornton LLP, one of the largest international public accounting firms, and later gained valuable tax compliance experience at ECA LLP, one of Hawaii's leading accounting firms, where he handled high net worth individuals and businesses. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Marketing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Over his career, Christopher has prepared more than 1,000 individual, corporate, and partnership tax returns, giving him deep insight into the financial needs of both individuals and companies. That background prepares him well for the diverse needs of clients living abroad.

Kurt Kawafuchi is a licensed tax attorney and CPA with a professional career spanning more than 30 years. He currently serves as Chair of the Hawaii Council on Revenues and is the former Director of Taxation for the State of Hawaii, the state tax commissioner responsible for all aspects of state tax administration.

His experience includes serving as a Principal (Partner) at the Beverly Hills law firm Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C., along with another major law firm and a Big Four international CPA firm. Earlier in his career he was a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division in Washington, DC, and Supervising Attorney in the Tax & Charities Division of the State of Hawaii Department of the Attorney General. Throughout, he specialized in representing clients in federal and state civil and criminal tax controversies and litigation, and in advising on international, federal, and state tax planning, business and estate planning, and real estate tax planning.

Kurt's leadership roles include President of the Western States Association of Tax Administrators (WSATA), Chair of the California Bar Tax Section DC Delegation, and Chair of both the Hawaii State Bar Tax Section and the HSCPA Tax Committee. He was voted Outstanding CPA by the AICPA and HSCPA (Government) in 2008 and received the President's Award from the HSCPA. He has spoken at national taxation and wealth transfer programs, including the NYU SALT and Summer Taxation Institutes, the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute, the State Bar of California Tax Section Annual Meeting, and the Hawaii Tax Institute, and has taught taxation, law, business, and estate planning courses at the University of Hawaii School of Law, its Graduate School of Accounting, and Hawaii Pacific University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a Certified Specialist in Taxation Law with the State Bar of California, and earned his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.

Victor Song helps clients resolve international tax matters, including compliance, due diligence, FATCA, and Voluntary Disclosure Programs. He spent more than 30 years with the Internal Revenue Service, where he served as Chief of one of its leading departments, giving clients the benefit of deep, firsthand IRS expertise.

Most recently, Victor was Executive Vice President for Compliance at Samsung Electronics America, where he oversaw all areas of compliance across Canada, North America, and parts of Mexico, including trade and commerce, fair trade, intellectual property, information protection, product liability, employee relations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

His combined experience at the IRS and Samsung lets him guide clients through their most complex tax issues and find practical solutions.