Mark Edward Bohe

Mark Edward Bohe (also known as Mark E. Bohe and Mark Bohe) retired on October 1, 2017. Mark does not practice law or represent clients because of his retirement. Before he retired Mark practiced law for over 35 years and mainly specialized in tax, accounting and business law. 

Mark was educated at the University of Colorado, Boulder (B.A., magna cum laude, May 26, 1978), and University of Denver (J.D., December 5, 1981; LL.M. in Tax, August 12, 1983). Before his October 2017 retirement, Mark was a licensed attorney in the states of Colorado (May 19, 1982 – December 21, 2017), Washington (June 5, 1989 – December 13, 2017), and California (June 10, 1991 – July 13, 2018).

Past governmental positions Mark held include Rules Administrator, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Austin, Texas (January 1, 2017 – September 5, 2017); Tax Policy Specialist, Interpretations & Technical Advice Division, for the Washington State Department of Revenue, Olympia and Tumwater, WA (February 21, 2006 – October 18, 2016); Director & Lead Attorney, Office of Legal Counsel, Yakama Nation, Toppenish, WA (2001 – 2002); Attorney for Hoopa Valley Development Enterprise and Hoopa Forest Industries, tribally chartered entities of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, Hoopa, CA (1990 – 1998); Office of Chief Counsel, Department of Treasury, District Counsel’s Office, Internal Revenue Service and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for Taxation & Bankruptcy, Oklahoma City and Seattle (January 6, 1985 – November 24, 1989).

Before his retirement, Mark was a member of Washington State Bar Association (including the Tax Section), Colorado Bar Association, Bar of the State of California, Thurston County Bar Association, and King County Bar Association (Co-Chair, Tax Section, 1994 – 1995).

While mainly a government attorney, Mark worked in private practice at 1200 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, WA practicing in tax controversy, middle-class bankruptcy and tribal enterprise development in the 1990s that ended in 1999. In Spokane, WA from 2003 to 2005 Mark renovated and rented quality low-income residential houses, represented Yakama Nations Legends Casino and using his legal skills facilitated for two Spokane Churches with a Partner Church in Felsorakos, Romania an EU Clean Water Grant and a conflict reducing and development increasing village-wide assessment process for Felsorakos assisted by the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council.

Some of Mark’s authored publications include “Washington Business Tax” (January 1, 1996), “Reducing Conflict, Increasing Development: A Case Study of Felsorakos in the Haromszek Region, Transylvania” Mark co-authored with Richard B. Ford and Edith Veg (2005), “Washington Abusive Tax Avoidance Transactions – Potential Solutions” (May 4, 2006), Tax Management for Tribes Law Seminar “Tribal Law and State Taxation” (February 21, 2008), Washington State DOR Interpretations and Technical Advice Division Rules Manual for Timeline and Checklist - Standard Rulemaking (September 18, 2015), Washington State DOR Out-of-State Auditor Training Part One “Forensic Accounting: Analysis of a Company’s Financial Statements Looking for Inconsistencies, Irregularities and Statistical Outliers” (September 22, 2015), and “Grammar and Style Lecture for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts” (June 2017).