Rina Accountants & Advisors

Rajiv Behti, CPA, MS, is a Tax Partner with RINA and an integral member of the Firm’s San Francisco office. With more than 36 years of public accounting experience in tax, Rajiv focuses on providing tax planning and consulting services to closely held companies in a variety of industries. His practice area also includes advising individuals on gift and estate tax issues, retirement planning, and charitable tax planning. He assists clients with a wide range of advisory services, including entity selection and succession planning. Rajiv provides clients with the vision and action plans necessary to help their businesses grow, while ensuring that every plan aligns with their personal and financial objectives. Rajiv has extensive tax planning experience in commercial and residential real estate operations including the use of tax deferral strategies such as installment sales, like kind exchanges and cost segregation studies. With this specialization, he assists clients with real estate partnerships and owner-operated real estate in the areas of multi-family housing, mini warehouses, hotels and resorts. Rajiv’s international tax experience enables him to guide US nonresident individuals and foreign businesses in structuring their U.S. operations and tax compliance. I have had the pleasure of working with Rajiv Behti for a number of years. Our relationship has evolved from CPA/Client, to good friends. We talk often and I use him not only for tax and audit, but for estate planning and planning the Companies future. He is very personable, knowledgeable and dedicated.