Mark J. DeFrancisco

Biography

Mark DeFrancisco serves as Chairman of the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board where he presides as an administrative law judge over trials of contested state and local tax appeals. He has over 40 years of experience in the area of state and local taxation, in both the public sector and in private practice as a tax litigator. Mark is an adjunct professor at Boston University Law School’s Graduate Tax Program where he teaches Federal Tax Practice and Procedure. He has spoken frequently on matters relating to Massachusetts taxation, including numerous conferences sponsored by the Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers, county assessors associations, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, MCLE, the Massachusetts CPA Society, and the tax committees of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Suffolk University Law School, and Boston University Law School’s Graduate Tax Program.