Taxation and Tax Controversy Law
Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal has extensive experience in handling tax planning and resolving tax conflicts. Our tax group provides services in a number of different areas of tax law.
Tax Planning
Our attorneys engage in tax planning activities for numerous clients, ranging from complex reorganizations to planning appropriate business structures for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Our attorneys have been involved in corporate and partnership planning activities that include corporate acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations and formations. We counsel our clients on the appropriate tax treatment for a particular entity and on creative ways of structuring a transaction to minimize tax costs. The firm’s tax attorneys are skilled in the planning required by individuals, corporations and partnerships to minimize tax consequences and comply with increasingly complex regulatory requirements.
Tax Conflicts
We are often involved in representing client interests in dealing with the Internal Revenue Service and relevant state revenue departments. Additionally, we have represented client interests in both civil and criminal tax matters at both the federal and state court level. The firm’s attorneys have been successful in client representation in the tax conflicts area. In a recent district court case we overcame an assertion of a 40% penalty by the IRS on approximately $30,000,000 in excess depreciation.
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The following attorneys make up the Taxation and Tax Controversy Law practice group: