Tax

The tax practice at Steptoe brings clients decades of consulting, transactional, and advocacy experience in all substantive areas of federal and state taxation and clients rely on us for practical and creative solutions to issues that span the "cradle-to-grave" spectrum of tax law.

• Corporate Tax Transactions
• Employee Benefits/ERISA/Executive Compensation
• Exempt Organizations
• Insurance Tax
• International Tax
• International Tax Controversy and Transfer Pricing
• IRS Controversy & Tax Litigation
• Legislative & Administrative, Congress & Treasury
• Partnerships/LLCs/S Corporations
• State & Local Tax

Our team consists of an extraordinary group of professionals, including former senior government officials from Congressional offices, the IRS, Treasury, and Justice Department, who have vast experience in sophisticated tax planning, audit, and controversy work. Our clients include some of the world’s largest corporations and tax-exempt organizations, as well as ultra high-net-worth individuals, and we advise them with respect to their most important tax matters.

We are forceful and effective advocates for our clients before the IRS, the Treasury Department, the courts, and in Congress, as well as before foreign tax authorities, for example through competent authority proceedings.  We advise clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and investment arrangements and draw on our deep understanding of corporate, partnership, and international tax, among others, as well as our extensive experience in evolving judicial practice and procedures, strategy, and tactics.

Widely respected in the field of tax law, our attorneys contribute to its development.  In addition, we regularly speak on important tax subjects, teach in educational institutions and institutes, author respected texts and articles on tax subjects, and participate in leadership roles in leading tax professional organizations.

Noteworthy

• Ranked, Chambers Global 2013, Tax: Corporate & Finance: USA
• Ranked, Chambers USA 2012, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation: Nationwide, DC
• Ranked, Chambers USA 2012, Tax: Corporate & Finance: Nationwide
• Ranked, Chambers USA 2012, Tax: Controversy: Nationwide
• Ranked, Chambers USA 2012, Tax: DC
• Named, "Best Law Firms," US News and Best Lawyers 2013, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law: Nationwide, DC
• Named, "Best Law Firms," US News and Best Lawyers 2013, Litigation-Tax: Nationwide, DC, Phoenix
• Named, "Best Law Firms," US News and Best Lawyers 2013, Tax Law: Nationwide, DC, Phoenix
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Finance: Not-for-Profit
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: Controversy
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: Corporate & Finance
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: Domestic Tax: East Coast, West Coast
• Recommended, Legal 500 US 2012, Tax: International
• Recognized, Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers 2012
• Recognized, Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers 2011
• Recommended, Practical Law Company 2011, Tax: DC

Select News & Events

• Media Quote Suzanne McDowell on IRS Targeting of Non-Profits
• Washington, DC Super Lawyers Recognizes 42 Steptoe Attorneys
• Southwest Super Lawyers Recognizes 14 Steptoe Lawyers
• Steptoe Receives 25 Practice, 32 Individual Mentions in Chambers Global 2013
• "Challenging Issues for Compensation Consultants," Representing & Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations
• "Legal Ethics for EO Practitioners," Representing & Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations
• "Structuring Transactions to Avoid Unrelated Business Income Tax,"Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference
• "Trends in Civil Penalties and Criminal Referrals," Tax Executives Institute

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Publications

• Ethical Issues in E-Discovery
  May 2013
• Voluntary Disclosures - What to Give Up, Up Front
  April 17, 2013
• Full Time or Part Time: Counting Hours and Why This Will Matter Under Health Care Reform
  Spring 2013, Employee Relations Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4
• Health Reform After Two Years: What's Next For Employers
  Fall 2012, Employee Relations Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3

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