Taxation

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Tax decisions affect nearly every industry, presenting challenges and risks to individuals, privately-held businesses and public companies alike. Whether you own an established business or nonprofit organization, work for a government agency, or handle domestic and cross-border transactions, Dickinson Wright’s Taxation practice offers innovative and comprehensive services to assist you in navigating the complicated universe of tax laws.

As a full-service law firm with offices across the U.S. and in Canada, we work seamlessly cross-border to assist clients with U.S. federal, state, and local tax law matters, as well as Canadian federal, provincial, and local tax law matters.

Our Services

U.S. Partnership Tax	Mergers & Acquisitions
Transactional Tax Planning	Private Equity
State & Local Tax	Tax-Exempt Organizations
International Tax	Tax Controversy
Corporate Tax	Community Development & Tax Credit Finance & Tax-Advantaged Financing

Transactional Tax

• Partnership formation, capitalization, acquisitions, dispositions, and other transactional matters
• Tax-free corporate reorganizations, entity recapitalizations, and business restructurings
• Tax consequences of buying or selling a business entity or its assets
• Tax planning for distributions, redemptions, and owner buyouts
• Tax matters associated with fund formation of private equity funds.
• Tax matters associated with the acquisition and disposition of portfolio investments by private equity funds
• Federal tax aspects of real estate financing and development
• Tax-advantaged financing structures, including tax-exempt bond financing, New Market Tax Credits, federal historic rehabilitation credits, and low-income housing credits

State and Local Tax

Dickinson Wright’s state and local tax attorneys regularly provide a range of services to clients aimed at mitigating tax burdens and obtaining relief:

• Advising clients regarding the state and local tax implications of mergers, acquisitions, and asset purchases
• Advising clients regarding successor liability for taxes
• Pursuing multistate voluntary disclosure agreements to reduce penalties and past tax liabilities
• Obtaining refunds of overpaid sales and use taxes
• Advising developers and construction contractors regarding transaction privilege tax liability
• Advising computer data center and renewable energy properties regarding tax incentives, sales and use taxes, contracting, taxes, and property taxes
• Obtaining property tax exemptions for nonprofit entities

International Tax

• Application of U.S. bilateral tax treaties
• Customs and excise taxes
• Canadian and U.S. inbound and outbound investments, and other cross-border transactions
• Joint venture structures involving U.S. and Canadian entities

Tax-Exempt Organizations

• Formation of tax-exempt organizations
• Application for recognition of federal tax-exempt status
• Federal tax law compliance issues
• Private foundation operations
• Federal tax planning involving joint ventures among exempt-organizations
• Unrelated Business Income Tax compliance counseling

Tax Controversy

• Representing clients in connection with audit examinations and other tax controversy matters before the Internal Revenue Service, Revenue Canada Agency, state, provincial, and local tax authorities
• Real property assessment, valuation and classification disputes, and litigation

Representative Case Matters

• Tax counsel to companies in various industry sectors, including the technology, real estate, charter school management, manufacturing, distribution, retail, financial, insurance, legal, healthcare, and other industries.

• Counsel to closely-held and public companies in connection with federal tax matters, including tax-free corporate reorganization, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.

• Served as tax counsel to issuers of billions of dollars of tax-exempt bonds, including governmental bonds, private activity bonds, qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, and exempt facility bonds.

• Counseled developers, nonprofit, for-profit, and government entities with respect to over $100 million of tax-advantaged financings and economic development incentives including federal New Market Tax Credits, federal Historic Rehabilitation Credits, state tax credits, and other federal and state tax incentives.

• Provided counsel to private equity funds regarding fund formation and tax-related matters, with an emphasis on federal partnership tax issues.

• Counseled individual and business clients in connection with business and investment transactions to minimize taxes and comply with tax laws.

• Counseled clients concerning formation of business entities, choice of entity, and related matters.

• Represented small to multinational businesses in connection with federal and state tax controversies, including tax appeals and refund litigation.

• Represented numerous manufacturing and industrial properties to reduce their ad valorem liabilities by millions of dollars.

• Advised multistate multilevel marketing companies regarding sales and use tax nexus matters.

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Dickinson Wright Tax Blog Dickinson Wright's Legal Edge blog is where the Firm’s Taxation Practice Area professionals post short, informative articles regarding a variety of tax issues of interest to our business, individual, trust and estates, charitable and governmental clients. The DW Tax Blog reports on topics of interest within the expertise of our lawyers working in the areas of U.S. and Canadian federal taxation; state and local taxation in numerous U.S. states and localities; Ontario provincial taxation; tax audits and controversies at every level; multistate and international tax planning and transactions; real and personal property tax; formation and operation of nonprofits; estate and gift taxation; trusts and estates; and employee benefits and executive compensation, to name just a few.

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