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Federal Taxation
Federal taxation impacts every phase of life from the operation of
businesses and consummation of commercial transactions, to post-mortem
estate planning, and is subject to constant change.
Some
of the firm’s major areas of experience include income tax planning for
individuals and businesses and estate planning. The firm also regularly
represents clients in controversies with the Internal Revenue Service.
The
firm’s tax attorneys represent small and large for-profit and
not-for-profit business organizations of all types including health care
providers, religious and educational groups, non-profit associations, and
governmental entities. They routinely provide tax advice and
representation to privately held and publicly traded local, state,
multi-state and multi-national businesses. They are regularly involved in
the tax aspects of organizations, mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
of all types of entities, including “C”corporations, “S” corporations,
cooperatives, foreign service corporations, limited, general, and limited
liability partnerships, and limited liability companies.
The
firm is experienced in retirement and benefit planning, including
qualified and non-qualified plan techniques and planning for the elderly
and individuals with substantial wealth. The firm has a considerable
understanding of issues involving estate planning techniques, including
the use of trusts, charitable giving, generation skipping transfers,
family limited partnerships, and other sophisticated wealth transfer
techniques.
The
firm’s tax attorneys regularly appear in administrative forums, trial
courts and the appellate courts, including the systems of the Internal
Revenue Service and U. S. Tax Court.
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