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The Corporate & Finance Group’s practice involves federal and state income; excise, gift, and estate tax planning; and the handling of controversies, including litigation, for a variety of public and private firms, tax-exempt organizations, employee benefit plans, and individuals. Dickstein Shapiro handles many diverse transactions in which its tax capabilities play an integral role. Recent examples include tax planning for the organization and operation of new electric generating facilities, as well as for mergers and acquisitions and international business transactions.

The scope of issues addressed by the firm is ever-changing due to frequent Congressional amendments to the Internal Revenue Code, the changing national and international economic environment, and increasingly competitive business practices. Recently, Dickstein Shapiro has assisted clients in the technical tax ramifications of bankruptcy and workouts and has counseled clients on the tax consequences of foreign taxpayers doing business in the United States and of U.S. taxpayers doing business abroad. The firm has been successful in obtaining specific tax legislation for various clients as a result of a cooperative effort between the firm’s Government Affairs and Tax Practices and recently concluded a trial in the U.S. Tax Court on behalf of a tax exempt entity, which is the focus of national interest and attention. In addition to handling substantive tax controversies, the firm routinely addresses issues involving the collection of taxes, assertion of penalties, and allegations of tax fraud. The firm has been in the forefront of a successful effort to force the IRS to expand and enhance its Offer in Compromise Program across the United States as an alternative method to resolving tax disputes.