TAX PLANNING AND STRUCTURING: DESCRIPTION
Our tax lawyers provide comprehensive services in all areas of international, federal and state taxation. These services include:
- Tax planning for domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and other business transactions
- Tax planning for real estate transactions
- Tax controversy representation
- Trust, estate and gift planning
- Consultation on state income sales, use and ad valorem tax issues
Our clients include individuals, partnerships, corporations, trusts, estates and charitable foundations.
A significant aspect of the tax practice focuses upon tax ramifications of particular business transactions. Our corporate, merger and acquisition and tax lawyers work with our clients and their accountants in structuring acquisitions, mergers, corporate partnership reorganizations, public and private securities offerings, liquidations and sales. Our tax lawyers handle tax matters that arise in the ordinary course of business such as the treatment of inventories, intercompany pricing issues and the deductibility or capitalization of expenditures. We also represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service, state enforcement agencies and the courts.
International Expertise
Our Brussels lawyers provide specialized advice and have considerable litigation experience in the areas of:
- Corporate income tax
- EU and Belgian tax law, including fiscal barriers to trade
- Fiscal aids
- Tax litigation
- Taxation treaties
- VAT and excise duties
We also counsel clients on a wide range European Union tax matters. Our work in this area focuses in particular on advising the services sector on the practical implications of complex European Union rules concerning the provision of banking, insurance and other financial services.
We also monitor and advise clients on the implications of developments in the Economic and Monetary Union and the single currency.