Tax

The tax practice at Steptoe brings clients decades of advisory, transactional, and advocacy experience in federal and state taxation. Clients rely on us for practical and creative solutions to issues that span the spectrum of tax law through all stages of the business lifecycle.

• Tax Controversies & Litigation
• Tax Policy
• International Tax
• Private Client
• Trusts & Estates
• Transactional Tax
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Exempt Organizations

Our team includes 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 high-net-worth individuals, and we advise them with respect to their most important tax matters.

One of our greatest strenths is our effective advocacy for our clients. We represent them 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, as well as our extensive experience in evolving judicial practice and procedures, strategy, and tactics.

Widely respected in the field of tax law, our lawyers contribute to its development. 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.