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Kimberlee S. P. Murphy

CPA, CGMA, MBA Partner, Lead, International Services

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Kimberlee is Withum’s International Services Market Leader with over 30 years of accounting and tax experience, and expertise in International Structuring, FATCA, Transfer Pricing, Inbound and Outbound Transactions, Expatriation Taxation/Global Mobility, and Executive Compensation Planning.

She serves on HLB’s International Tax Committee and has co-chaired the HLB North America Tax Services Group.

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Learn more about my professional experience and how I spend my time outside the firm.

Education:

  • Degree cum laude in Economics and International Relations, Wellesley College
  • MBA in Accounting and Finance from The Anderson School at UCLA

Professional Affiliations:

  • Member, American Association of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
  • Member, New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA)
  • Member, Finance Committee for St. Charles Borromeo
  • Treasurer and Board of Trustees of George Street Playhouse
  • Former National Board Treasurer and Board of Directors of Learning Ally

Kimberlee has authored articles for numerous local publications and has been a frequent lecturer on tax, business and financial matters to the general public, and professional and business organizations. She coordinates and conducts continuing professional education training on all types of tax issues for the firm’s accountants and outside professionals. She resides in Mercer County, NJ. In addition to founding Withum’s Women’s Leadership Development Initiative (now, Women of Withum) in 2000, in 2002, Kimberlee received the Princeton YWCA Tribute to Women award. In 2007, Kimberlee was named a Woman of Influence in Finance by the New Jersey Women’s Fund, and in 2008 she was named one of the Best 50 Women in Business by NJBIZ. During 2012, Kimberlee was named “Woman of the Year” by Garden State Woman, received a salute to the Policy Makers award from Executive Women of New Jersey and was named a “Woman of Note” by the NJSCPA.

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YouTube and Google: Withholding Tax

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Captive Insurance Taxation: Compliance, Tax Reform and Section 953(d) Election

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