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Tax

Businesses and individuals operate under complicated and ever-changing tax rules. Phillips Lytle can help. Our Tax attorneys are well versed in all aspects of federal, New York State and New York City tax and tax-related matters. Because our Tax Practice represents a wide variety of clients – from individuals and small businesses to multinational corporations – our attorneys can handle tax planning for transactions ranging from several thousand to millions of dollars, as well as tax disputes.

TAX PLANNING

The transactional and planning side of our Tax Practice focuses on advising clients on the tax issues and consequences in many diverse areas:
* Mergers and acquisitions
* Partnerships and joint ventures
* Limited liability companies
* Real estate investments
* REITs
* Subchapter S corporations
* Financing transactions (including tax-exempt bond financing, bankruptcy and loan workouts)
* Charitable and other not-for-profit organizations
* Executive compensation (including non-qualified deferred compensation plans)
* Employee benefits (including qualified deferred compensation arrangements and employee welfare benefits)
* Business succession planning

Our Tax Practice also advises clients on tax issues in public offerings; real estate transactions (including sale-lease backs and like-kind exchanges); business structuring and choice of entity; and estate planning. Our clients include manufacturers, contractors and real estate developers, banks, pension plans, large retailers and personal service businesses, to list a few.

TAX LITIGATION

Our attorneys have substantial experience representing a diverse group of domestic and international clients in federal, state and local tax disputes during and after tax audits. We have practiced before the IRS, the IRS Appeals Office, the U.S. Tax Court, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, the New York State Division of Tax Appeals, the New York City Department of Finance, the New York State and City Tax Appeals Tribunals and New York State Courts.

At the federal level, our work for clients involves tax audit and administrative appeals proceedings on all types of federal taxes, in addition to representation in the U.S. Tax Court and other federal trial and appellate courts. At the state and local level, we represent clients at every stage, from initial audit through administrative hearing, and oral arguments before the New York State or City Tax Appeals Tribunal and the state courts. We handle matters covering virtually all areas of state tax laws, including corporate and bank franchise taxes; sales tax; personal income tax including residency disputes; and various miscellaneous New York taxes.

Phillips Lytle LLP
3400 HSBC Center
Buffalo NY 14203-2887
Tel: 716 847-8400
Fax: 716 852-6100

New York State Law Firm

Phillips Lytle LLP, full-service New York State law firm. Practice areas include Banking, Business, Environmental, Labor, Personal Injury and Real Estate.