Rick Starkenburg | Clark Nuber PS

Rick Starkenburg

Rick Starkenburg

Contact

rstarkenburg@clarknuber.com
425.454.4919

Numbers

80 Games per season for the Mariners, his favorite team
7 Years at Clark Nuber
1 Child with wife, Danelle

Rick is an outdoors, family kind-of guy. He cycles and hikes, most of the time with his wife and daughter. When it’s raining and the trails get muddy, he enjoys a good book and traveling.

As a principal in the firm’s tax practice, Rick works diligently to design solutions for a wide range of income and transfer tax planning needs. He specializes in high net worth individuals, executives and commercial business owners, which has given him a great deal of experience with wealth management.

Summary

Practice Emphasis

  • Income tax and wealth transfer planning
  • Stock option and restricted stock consulting
  • Strategies to maximize the tax benefits of retirement plans and IRAs
  • Tax effective charitable and education planning
  • Estate and trust income tax planning and compliance
  • Post mortem income and estate tax planning

Proven Results

  • Designed a plan to transfer commercial real estate within a family at no transfer tax cost, while meeting each family member's cash flow needs.
  • Structured real estate investment and development activities that significantly reduced a family's current income taxes, while transferring wealth to the next generation.
  • Implemented option exercise strategies that maximized cash flow while minimizing the impact of the alternative minimum tax.
  • Designed and implemented a family limited liability company and dynasty trust that saved substantial income and transfer taxes, while preserving the benefits for future generations.
  • Work with estate executors and attorneys to significantly reduce current and future income and estate taxes.

Education

  • Northwestern College, B.A. in Accounting
  • Accredited in Business Valuation by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Activities

  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • American Society of Appraisers
  • Seattle Estate Planning Council