About Us

Specialty Tax, LLC team has years of experience in specialized tax services.

Our team at Specialty Tax, LLC consists of seasoned professionals with extensive experience in specialized tax services.

About Specialty Tax

At Specialty Tax LLC, we provide highly specialized tax solutions designed to maximize savings and ensure compliance for our clients. We focus on complex areas like 263A Reporting, Opportunity Zone Tax Consulting, and other nuanced aspects of the tax code that many overlook. Our experienced team brings deep expertise and a commitment to uncovering opportunities for developers, CPAs, and other professionals to optimize their tax positions. In addition to our consulting services, we partner with industry professionals to offer continuing education, empowering them to enhance their skills and deliver even greater value to their clients. Whether through strategic planning or hands-on implementation, we’re dedicated to turning complex tax challenges into significant financial benefits.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to pioneer and deliver innovative tax strategies, bringing powerful yet often unknown opportunities to the everyday taxpayer. We are committed to transforming complex tax regulations into accessible, actionable solutions that maximize savings and empower our clients to achieve financial success.

Our Story

Specialty Tax LLC was born out of a shared vision: to provide exceptional tax solutions that empower businesses and individuals to achieve financial success. Our journey began with a deep commitment to understanding the challenges faced by property owners, developers, and investors, and a drive to create tailored strategies that deliver real results.

Our roots are in decades of experience in tax law, construction management, and consulting. Along the way, we identified a need for specialized expertise in areas often overlooked or underutilized—opportunities that could save clients substantial amounts of money while simplifying the complexities of tax compliance. With this insight, we set out to build a firm dedicated to uncovering these opportunities and transforming them into measurable financial benefits.

We’ve grown by staying true to our core values: integrity, precision, and partnership. At Specialty Tax LLC, we view each client relationship as a collaboration, working side by side to tackle challenges, navigate complexities, and uncover savings that others might miss. Our approach is grounded in clear communication, thorough analysis, and an unwavering focus on delivering value.

What truly sets us apart is our ability to blend technical expertise with practical solutions. Drawing from our collective experience in leadership, development, and tax strategy, we’ve built a firm that thrives on helping clients achieve their goals. From real estate developers looking to maximize project returns to businesses aiming to free up capital, we’ve worked with clients across the country to create meaningful, lasting impact.

Specialty Tax LLC is the culmination of years of experience, innovation, and a passion for helping others succeed. Our story is one of growth, learning, and an enduring commitment to excellence. Today, we’re proud to partner with businesses and individuals to turn tax challenges into opportunities, building a future where success is shared.

Join us, and let’s write the next chapter of your success story—together.

Meet The Team

Rhett Gagon

Rhett holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University. Much of Rhett’s

professional career has involved working personally with high net-worth individuals; training and speaking at conferences on a local, regional and national level. Rhett’s expertise in Special Tax Projects began in 2010. Rhett continues to speak on national and local levels helping the accounting world to better understand the value of specialty tax solutions to both investors and accounting firms. He has worked on thousands of projects saving clients nationwide hundreds of millions of tax dollars.

When not at work his love and passion is spending time with his wife & children. If this can happen outside, he is happiest – whether snow skiing in the wintertime or on the water when it gets hot, even chasing & wrestling his kids at home make him happiest.

Harald B. Ruf, CPA

Harold holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Brigham Young University

and has been a licensed CPA since 1978. Mr. Ruf has extensive experience as a consultant and corporate officer with regional, national and international companies. He has also co-founded successful construction, professional service and manufacturing companies. He has served as an officer and board member in local and national associations and has been recognized nationally for his distinguished service. He currently serves on multiple company boards of directors including public companies.

Steve Ruf, MBA

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University and a Masters in

Business Administration from the University of Utah. Steve is an expert in special tax situations and construction; he has prepared thousands of cost segregation studies. He has been a construction manager, developer, and project manager of many projects. His expertise includes 263A, opportunity zones, cost segregation studies, tax law depreciation, construction costing, claims, damage assessment, cost analysis report preparation, construction management, and project management.

Tyler Criddle

Tyler is a current student at Brigham Young

University studying Real Estate Finance. Tyler brings diverse hands-on-work experience through time spent in Land Development as well as sales and operations. Much of Tyler’s professional experience has been with startup companies and helping them to attain greater stability and consistency.

When not working, you’ll often find Tyler spending time watching or playing sports of some kind. His interests also include entrepreneurism, fly fishing, snowboarding, camping, and traveling the world

Savannah Butler

Savannah is currently a senior in the Finance Program at Brigham Young University's

Marriott School of Business. She specializes in the sales process and operational control, working closely with clients. Savannah's work experience has equipped her with the skills to excel in leadership, process development, quality control, and relationship building.

Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, mountain biking, and skiing. Savannah also enjoys traveling.

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