Ronald I. Heller

Ronald I. Heller is a licensed Certified Public Accountant as well as an attorney. Mr. Heller is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, and a past Chair of the Tax Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association. He has litigated tax cases at the county, state, and federal levels. See, e.g., Kaheawa Wind Power, LLC v. County of Maui, 2014 Haw. App. LEXIS 528 (Haw. App., 2014); Air Tour Acquisition Corp. v. US, 781 F.Supp 669 (D Hawaii, 1991); US v. Vellalos, 780 F.Supp 705 (D Hawaii 1992), affirmed w/o published opinion 990 F2d 1265 (9th Cir. 1993). He has also handled a variety of other business disputes in litigation or arbitration proceedings. In 2005, he was appointed by Governor Linda Lingle to the Tax Review Commission of the State of Hawaii, and was subsequently elected Vice Chairman of the Commission. In 2004, Mr. Heller received the "Small Business Champion" award for the State of Hawaii from the National Federation of Independent Business. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Society of Certified Public Accountants since 1988, and served as the Society's President for 1994-95. Mr. Heller served as one of the two Hawaii representatives on the Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1994-96 and again in 2002-04. Mr. Heller was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawaii School of Law, and has taught a number of continuing professional education courses for attorneys, CPAs, and others.