CPE Version: Understanding Timber Taxation 

  • Instructor: Clint Bentz
  • Level: Basic
  • CPE Credits: 12.6
  • Field of Study: Taxes
Who should attend? Public and private accountants and tax preparers serving clients who own forestland in the US.
Watch the course overview video to learn more!
Having trouble figuring out how to account for income and expenses on your client’s woodland? Join with Clint Bentz, CPA, CMA, former chairman of the American Forest Foundation and 2002 National Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year as he helps you navigate and understand the complexities of timber taxation.

This course provides complete coverage for all areas of timber taxation for the six classifications of timberland owners (personal use, investor, farming, hobby, and passive and active trade or business), including how each type reports income, what expenses are deductible based on taxpayer classification, timber block accounting, reforestation costs, depletion, casualty losses and more. The course covers all types of landowners from individuals who have some timber on their residential property to large corporate ownerships. See the Course Overview & Introduction below for more details and the detailed Learning Objectives. 

Clint has over 30 years of experience working with timber clients, including his own family’s 700 acres of timberland in Scio Oregon.

Clint Bentz Consulting LLC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
Lesson series
This is an on-demand, QAS Self Study course.
There are no pre-requisites or advanced preparation required for this course.

Students must complete all learning activities and achieve a minimum score of 70% on the final assessment to earn CPE credit for this course.

A CPE certificate will be issued at the completion of the course.

Access to this course will expire 12 months after date of purchase per NASBA requirements.

This course is current for tax law in effect as of December 31, 2024. If a supplement is needed for the 2025 tax year, it will be provided for free to anyone who purchases this class.

Publication Date: December 2024
Revision: 2024 Tax Year
Review Date: December 2024
  • Video time: 9 hours
  • 1 Comprehensive Assessment (must pass with 70% or higher to earn CPE credits)

Why should I take this course?

Practical approach

Our training is designed to provide the skills in a practical approach. Our students' success is our best asset in showing the quality of our training.

Globally oriented

Strategies shared and knowledge earned allows our students to immediately set up their business and start offering their services around the globe.

For your career

Whether you want to boost your career within the company you are working or grow at your own business by applying the latest strategies we teach, this is the way.

Course contents

Meet the instructor

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Clint Bentz

Managing Member, Clint Bentz Consulting LLC
Clint Bentz is a managing member and lead instructor at Clint Bentz Consulting.
For over 30 years, Clint has been helping families with their estate and succession planning, as well as providing continuing professional education to tax professionals, attorneys, bankers, trust officers, and lay audiences on a broad range of income and estate tax issues, as well as training advisors on how to keep family-owned businesses with succession.
Clint is the primary author of the Ties to the Land curriculum published by Oregon State Extension Service and the OSU Austin Family Business Program.