Industry Specialties: small business, professional services, ranching, real estate
Areas of Expertise: Individual and business taxation; Estate and trust taxation
Education: University of Oregon, B.B.A.-Accounting
Certifications: CPA
Fun fact: Favorite place for underwater photography: Still to be discovered.
Tom Wicks completed his 46th tax season in 2009. “Some of those returns were for clients who were with me my first year here in Roseburg — in 1964,” he says.
A native of Cottage Grove, Tom attended both Oregon State University and the University of Oregon in the early ‘60s. He worked for a CPA company based in Eugene and Roseburg for a few years before buying the Roseburg office in 1968.
“This is a great community for us,” he says. “We have had wonderful relationships with our clients and friends over the years, and a great staff. We’re blessed to have had associations with really good people.”
Tom primarily does taxation, retirement planning and estate planning for longtime clients. “The client relationship is much more than business,” he says. “It becomes a friendship, and it’s so rewarding to see the same people year after year.”
Both Tom and his wife LaVonne devoted a lot of time to community and civic affairs over the years. Tom served as president or chair of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, the Roseburg Kiwanis Club, the Roseburg Country Club and the Chamber Greeters.
Tom spends much of his free time indulging his passion for underwater photography, enduring long flights to far-off places in search of tropical, clear-blue waters. “If I could have another career, I’d probably be a marine biologist,” he says. He’s got plenty of company— LaVonne and four of their five granddaughters are also certified divers.
Chuck Chappell, Laura Konecny, Steve Oleson, Jim Treanor-Weaver
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