Tax

The attorneys practicing in the tax section of Conner & Winters represent individuals, corporations, partnerships, tax-exempt organizations, and other entities in all areas of federal, state and local taxation.  Our firm offers planning services for clients who wish to minimize potential tax consequences by utilizing the latest planning techniques.  The firm also assists clients in structuring purchases and acquisitions, as well as sales and dispositions, rendering advice regarding ongoing changes in the tax laws, drafting and amending pension and profit sharing plans and other employee benefit plans, negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service regarding proposed assessments, including representation throughout the appeals process and trial of tax matters in federal district court and before the United States Tax Court, and negotiating with state tax commissions, including the conduct of administrative proceedings and judicial appeals.

The firm's practice includes representation of clients in diverse areas such as:

• Ad valorem appeals
• Bankruptcy taxation
• Basis issues
• Charitable and other tax-exempt organizations
• Civil tax penalties
• Corporate taxation
• Deferred compensation planning
• Domestic relations taxation
• Employee benefits
• Employment taxes
• Estate and gift taxation
• Foreign activities of United States taxpayers
• General income tax
• Income of estates and trusts
• Natural resources taxation
• Partnerships and limited liability companies
• Personal service organizations
• Real estate taxation, including REITS
• Reorganizations
• S corporations
• State and local taxation
• Tax accounting
• Transfer pricing
• United States activities of non-citizens and tax treaties

Our tax attorneys assist in the interpretation, structuring and negotiation of client transactions to maximize tax benefits and to minimize tax costs.  We advise clients in the use of corporate structures, including limited liability companies, partnerships, land trusts, and other specialized vehicles, in order to save transactional taxes.  We also draft the tax disclosure portions of offering documents and draft and render tax opinions associated with transactions.