Whether seeking to reduce your taxes, developing an estate plan, ensuring compliance with the IRS and state tax regulations, or dealing with an audit, having trusted, knowledgeable tax attorneys on your side offer more than legal experience, it provides peace of mind.
Helping Clients Navigate the Ever-Changing Tax Law Landscape
Few things are more daunting or complicated than tax issues. Silverman Schermer provides an array of tax law services for businesses and individuals, and stays current on all tax laws, rules and regulations. We know how to navigate the complex federal tax code as well as the often-complicated state tax laws. We stay abreast of changes in federal and state tax law and ensure our clients interests are continuously protected when changes are made. When tax controversies arise, our attorneys can protect your rights in proceedings before the IRS or Department of Revenue.
Tax Planning for Business and Corporate Transactions
When it comes to tax planning, interdisciplinary knowledge and experience are necessary to design complex tax savings strategies. Our lawyers are proactive and take advantage of tax opportunities on behalf of clients as they occur. Silverman Schermer’s clients benefit from the firm’s deep knowledge of highly complicated areas of tax law and achieve sophisticated and creative tax planning and advice .
Maximizing Benefits and Avoiding Tax Problems
Tax planning for businesses and corporations is as much about maximizing benefits as it is about avoiding tax liabilities. We help clients design organizational structures that achieve tax favorable results. We provide services for all types of businesses and corporations, including partnerships, limited liability companies, sole proprietorships, C corporations and S corporations, and employ the best tax strategies for our clients, including but not necessarily limited to:
- Determining the most advantageous business structure
- Working with trusted experts on business valuations and compensation issues
- Designing appropriate allocations of partnership tax attributes to properly reflect the economic deal in complex business arrangements
- Advising on optimal acquisition and ownership structure of assets to maximize tax benefits
- Providing insight on tax issues surrounding mergers and acquisitions, including transaction structuring options, tax liabilities and tax attributes
Tax Compliance
It’s no small task to stay on top of complicated tax laws when they are often in flux, but Silverman Schermer does this work for our clients to ensure they are in compliance at all times. Our lawyers’ extensive experience in managing complex tax and other economic issues in large mergers and acquisitions make them frequently-sought out to provide tax counsel in transactions, even where large national law firms are involved.