Experience

Kurt first joined Blazek & Vetterling in 2012. He rejoined the firm in 2017 after three years at Deloitte working in various practice areas, including the Estate, Gift, Trust, and Charitable division of Deloitte’s Washington National Tax Practice.

Kurt’s practice focuses on serving private foundations and public charities, providing compliance and consulting service in the areas of unrelated business taxable income, excise tax on investment income, expenditure requirements, reporting for alternative investments, applications for federal tax exemption and state and local tax issues.

He has developed tax technical updates and trainings on the topics of disaster relief issues and tax impacts of the 2017 TCJA on nonprofits. From 2020-2024 he served on the committee of the AICPA’s Technical Resource Panel for Exempt Organizations. He contributed to the AICPA comment letter on the guidance around IRC section 512(a)(6), the November 2022 comment letter on security concerns related to private foundation disclosures of individual grant recipients’ personal information, and the January 2024 comment letter on the proposed donor advised fund regulations.

Kurt has served as an instructor at University of Texas School of Law Nonprofit Organizations Institute conferences; additionally, he is a continuing professional education instructor for the Firm’s internal private foundation curriculum.

Education

• University of Texas at Austin | BA
• University of St. Thomas | Masters in Accountancy

Certifications

Affiliations

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Houston Chapter of Certified Public Accountants
• AICPA Exempt Organizations Tax Resource Panel

Community Service