Practice Areas & Industries: Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Members of Butler Snow's Tax Group help business and individual clients with a full range of tax issues, from sophisticated business transactions to individual tax planning. Although the firm's tax expertise encompasses all aspects of federal, state and local taxation, our tax practice can be classified into two primary types: planning for prospective transactions and disputes involving audits of returns filed with the IRS or state taxing authorities.

Services Available

Planning

The firm routinely renders tax advice in connection with the organization of business entities and the structuring of business transactions to achieve desired tax objectives. Specific areas we help clients with include purchase and sale transactions, like-kind exchanges, tax-free reorganizations, corporate distributions to shareholders and reporting transactions on tax returns in a manner that minimizes exposure to penalties. Our tax attorneys also help tax-exempt entities with legal services that include organizing non-profit organizations and assisting them in applying for and maintaining tax-exempt status. In addition, our attorneys provide legal guidance to tax-exempt entities regarding private inurement issues, unrelated business income tax issues, tax-exempt intermediate sanctions, joint venture transactions with for profit and not-for-profit organizations and other related issues.

We routinely represent clients under audit by the IRS or state taxing authorities for all types of taxes in both civil and criminal cases. Our tax attorneys have handled tax controversies in administrative hearings at all levels of the Internal Revenue Service and State Tax Commission. We have also litigated tax cases in the United States Tax Court and in all levels of the state court system, if the matter cannot be settled on terms favorable to the taxpayer.

Our areas of Tax practice include:

• Economic Development Tax Incentives
• Employee Benefits
• Estate and Wealth Transfer Tax Planning
• State and Local Tax