Jason Watkins

Jason Watkins is a partner of Novogradac & Company LLP. He works out of the metro Atlanta office, where he specializes in the opportunity zones (OZ) incentive, federal and state new markets tax credits (NMTCs),and federal and state historic tax credits. Watkins leads Novogradac's OZ practice and regularly consults with qualified opportunity funds (QOFs), qualified opportunity zone businesses (QOZBs), developers, and investors on properly structuring OZ deals. Watkins joined Novogradac in 2012 and works extensively with QOFs and QOZBs on financial statement audits, tax return preparation, cost certification audits, OZ compliance reporting and consulting services. He also regularly chairs the firm’s OZ conferences and has been a panelist on OZs at numerous Novogradac and other conferences. He leads and coordinates the Novogradac-hosted Opportunity Zones Working Group, a membership organization that provides a platform to address technical issues with the OZ incentive. Watkins received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Kent State University and is licensed in Georgia as a certified public accountant.