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Robert J. Alter: Lawyer with Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Robert J. Alter

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Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
The Legal Center, One Riverfront Plaza
Newark, New Jersey  07102-5400
(Essex Co.)

Telephone: 973-643-7000
Fax: 973-643-6500
http://www.sillscummis.com



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Practice AreasCivil and Criminal Tax Litigation; Taxation Law; State and Local Taxation; Federal and State Tax Controversies; Tax Planning; Mediation; Arbitration
 
EducationSt. John's University, J.D., 1976, Thomas More Scholar; New York University, LL.M., in Taxation, 1981, Seton Hall University, B.A., 1973
 
Admitted1977, New York, New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1978, U.S. Tax Court; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Claims Court; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
 
MembershipsNew York State (Sections of State and Local Tax), New Jersey State (Tax Section Chair and Executive Committee Member, IRS Practitioner Liaison) and American (Sections of State and Local Tax) Bar Associations; New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on the Tax Court.
 
BornQueens, New York, June 12, 1951
 
BiographySenior Trial Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, New York, N.Y., 1976-1982. Author: "The Fifth Amendment Testimonial Act of Production Doctrine and the Compelled Production of Records of a Collective Entity," New Jersey Law Journal, November 15, 1984; "Shareholder's Fifth Amendment Privilege Bars Summons of Corporate Records," The Journal of Taxation, October, 1985; "New Guidelines Alter Sentencing Practices," New Jersey Law Journal, July 7, 1988; "New Jersey After Amnesty: Defense of State Criminal Tax Proceedings," New Jersey Law Journal, May, 25, 1989; "The New Jersey Court Year in Review - Tax Law," New Jersey Law Journal, September 7, 1990-September 7, 2001; "Facing the IRS and the NJ Division of Taxation," New Jersey Lawyer, May/June 1991; "New Jersey Tax Law," New Jersey Law Journal, September 1992. Co-Author: "Recent NJ Corporate Business Tax Cases," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, October 1994; "Dealing with IRS Hospital Audits," New Jersey Law Journal (Supplement, Health Care Law), December 19, 1994; "New Jersey Tax Amnesty - No Interest, No Penalties, No Kidding," New Jersey Law Journal, March 1996; "Court Strikes Down State Taxation of Mutual Fund Income From U.S. Obligations," New Jersey Law Journal, March 3, 1997; "Strengthening the Taxpayer's Hand - The IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998," New Jersey Law Journal - Financial Planning Supplement, November 23, 1998. Author, New Jersey Law Journal Supreme Court Year in Review - Taxation - 1997-2003. Expert Witness on Taxation. IRS Director of Practice Defense. Selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers since its inception in 2005 and in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007.
 
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