Practice Areas

  • Accounting methods
  • Capital gain, ordinary income, the return of capital
  • Charitable contributions
  • Compensation
    • Deferred compensation
    • Employment taxes
    • Excess compensation from publicly held corporations
    • Restricted stock
    • Stock options
  • Deduction versus capital expense versus depreciation/amortization
  • Independent contractor versus employee
  • Individual and personal expenses
  • Lawsuits
    • Taxable and nontaxable damages
    • Litigation costs
  • Losses
    • Bad debt—Business versus non-business
    • Casualty
  • Partnerships
    • Partnership versus partners
    • Allocation and distributions
    • Profits interests
  • Passive activity gains and losses
  • Research and development
  • Retirement plans, IRA’s
  • S corporations
  • Tangible property regulations
  • Taxable versus non-taxable payments
  • Timing of income—Constructive receipt, assignment of income
  • U.S. international taxation
    • Foreign tax credits
    • Non-U.S. employees and wage withholding
    • Passive income
    • Subpart F
    • Tax treaties