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Dr. William Alan Raabe (born December 14, 1953, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is one of the leading tax educators and authors in the US. He is known for his innovative teaching methods, and his use of technology in the classroom.

Raabe teaches tax courses in the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of many tax books and articles, and he often appears as a tax expert in the media. Dr. Raabe is a patron of church music. He endowed the Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition with the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.

He is a member of the “alumni hall of fame” for both Milwaukee Lutheran High School and Carroll University.

Professional Life
William Raabe received masters (in 1976) and doctorate (in 1979) degrees from the College of Commerce of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studied accountancy, public finance and economics, and tax law. His undergraduate studies at Carroll University were in accounting and computer science (1975). He earned the CPA designation in 1976. He then joined the School of Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) in 1979, and he attained the designation there of Wisconsin Distinguished Professor. He was the only accounting or tax professor ever to earn that title in the state. He built the Master of Science degree program in Taxation, beginning in 1979. He was a founder at UWM of the Deloitte Center for Multistate Taxation.

Dr. Raabe taught at Samford University from 1997–2001 in the Brock School of Business. He became Head of Accounting Programs, and he was president of the Alabama Accounting Educators Association for 1998-99. Raabe was named the Founding Dean of the School of Management at Capital University in 2001, and he held the rank Distinguished Professor at Capital. He taught several tax courses in the Capital University Law School graduate programs. Raabe joined the Ohio State University staff in January 2003, and has been highly regarded by his students at the university.

Books and Articles
William Raabe is the author or editor of over twenty book titles, and of over one hundred editions. He has written about eighty academic and professional articles on tax and tax policy topics. He appears as BillRaabeTax at both YouTube and Twitter. His YouTube clips include comments about: Dr. Raabe's book titles include: Raabe also writes and edits the annual Case Studies in Taxation collection for PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). The cases are used for educational purposes in universities and in professional education settings.
 * How to Get Your Tax Refund
 * Everyone Should Pay Some Federal income Tax
 * Did Ohio Ratify the Sixteenth Amendment?
 * ||20409353049388557231809302094965148372&N=16&Ntk=APG||P_EPI South-western Federal Taxation (Cengage, university textbook).
 * ||6635294683578743048174243761937442590&N=16&Ntk=APG||P_EPI Federal Tax Research (Cengage, university textbook and professional reference book).
 * Schedule M-3 Compliance (CCH, professional reference book).

Other Media
William Raabe has presented webcasts for professionals on topics including tax accounting and book-tax differences. He appears frequently in the media as an expert in tax law, tax policy, economic development, and tax incentives. Some of these appearances include:
 * The Freakonomics blog of the New York Times, about tax cheating.
 * The PBS talk show Columbus on the Record, about tax incentives for Ohio business.
 * The keynote address at a briefing by the RATE Coalition, featuring Senator Rob Portman and Representative Pat Tiberi, about federal corporate tax rates.
 * The NPR program Market Place, about the federal alternative minimum tax.

Personal Life
William Raabe was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1953. He married Nancy Miller in March 1989. Their two children are Margaret and Martin Raabe.

Bill and Nancy Raabe have commissioned a number or original compositions of church music, many of which have been published. In 1998, they endowed the Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition with the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. The Raabe Prize recognizes significant accomplishments in music that is designed for use in the weekly worship service.

William Raabe has been a board member of several not-for-profit organizations, including the National Lutheran Choir, Bethesda Lutheran Communities, and the Concord Chamber Orchestra.

The Raabes have lived in Bexley, Ohio since June 2001.