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Our Seattle tax attorneys provide comprehensive tax planning and advice for businesses. Ryan Swanson attorneys advise clients on federal, state, local and international tax matters, and assist with tax audits, appeals to administrative agencies and court litigation.
Our tax attorneys also work closely with our clients’ accountants and financial advisors to structure transactions, comply with tax reporting, and promote client interests in a variety of matters. Likewise, we work closely with other firm attorneys to ensure that our tax practice is firm may be working on for one of our clients.
Specific Experience:
Our Seattle tax attorneys assist clients in achieving business objectives while minimizing their tax costs. Such clients include sole proprietorships, corporations, partnerships and limited
liability companies, and range in size from small enterprises to publicly-traded concerns. We also assist businesses in negotiating, structuring and documenting business transactions, including:
- common and preferred stock offerings
- corporate mergers
- acquisitive and divisive reorganizations
- recapitalizations
- redemptions
- complete and partial liquidation transactions
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Practice
Our Tax Group assists clients in structuring compensation arrangements, with a particular focus on ERISA qualified plans, deferred compensation, stock options and golden parachute payments.
Our tax attorneys draft and review qualified pension, profit-sharing and ESOP plans and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, including qualified and nonqualified stock options. We are also experienced with the “golden parachute” provisions of tax laws that commonly arise in mergers and acquisitions.
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We provide tax advice in connection with establishing business entities, asset purchases,
mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and venture financings. We
also advise individuals on personal income tax issues, including charitable giving
and business succession problems, and assist buyers and sellers in structuring
“tax deferred” like-kind Section 1031 exchanges.
Our Group deals with the tax aspects of foreign individuals and entities engaging
in activities in the United States, and U.S. individuals and entities active in
foreign jurisdictions, including the tax consequences of business transactions
that cross international borders. We advise such companies on structuring their
activities to minimize foreign taxation and to maximize U.S. tax benefits. Common
issues include: FIRPTA, cross-border withholding taxes, tax treaties, foreign sales
corporations, foreign tax credits, the branch profits tax, international reorganizations
and acquisitions, transfer pricing and U.S. taxation of income earned through foreign
corporations.
We work closely with the firm’s Real Estate Group when advising clients with respect
to tax issues in real estate matters and transactions. Together, we work to structure
and document real estate transactions, including public and private real estate
syndications, like-kind exchanges, and workout transactions.
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We help clients minimize their state, county and municipal tax obligations and
represent them in tax controversies before state revenue departments. State taxes
include business and occupation tax, sales and use tax, excise taxes, state income
taxes, real estate excise tax and property taxes. We also assist clients in all
aspects of multi-state taxation, including nexus issues and the impact of e-business
in multiple jurisdictions.
Our Group advises clients regarding succession strategies with a focus on transferring
business ownership to other family members, management groups and third-party purchasers
in a tax-effective manner.
We represent taxpayers in audits, appeals, Tax Court, and other court proceedings
involving IRS and state tax audits.
We are regularly involved with exempt organization matters, including:
- initial qualification for exemption
- avoiding private inurement and intermediate sanctions
- unrelated business income tax planning
- private foundation compliance
- joint ventures with for-profits
- conversions to and from exempt status
- maintenance of tax-exempt status where an organization engages in for-profit activities
- executive compensation arrangements
Our Team
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- Licensing & Technology: Frequently Asked Questions (2009) - Frequently Asked Questions As Featured in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Monthly “Ask A Legal Professional” Section
- Schedule of Fees 2009 - U.S. Copyrights (2009)
- Schedule of Fees 2009 - U.S. Trademarks (2009)
- Border to Border Immigration Newsletter (Summer) (2009) - Hot Issues from AILA Conference, Availability of Immigrant Visa Numbers, Increase in Border Patrol
- Immigration Law Update June 2009 (2009)
- Estates and Trusts (2009)
- Impact of a Merger or Acquisition on Employees Seeking Permanent Residency (2009) - Due Diligence Checklist
- U.S. Franchising Basics (2009)
- Immigration Update March (2009) - Immediate Retrogression of Visas
- Immigration Update February (2009) - FAR E-verify delay, Delay in Implementation of New I-9, New H-2B Regulations
- Immigration Update January (2009)
- Federal Law Update: What You Need to Know (2008)
- Generational Issues in the Workplace (2008)
- Internal Electronic Policies in the Age of “E-Discovery” (2008)
- Revisiting the Overtime Morass: Special Exceptions to Non-Exempt Status and Methods of Computation (2008)
- Border to Border Immigration Newsletter (Winter) (2008) - No match letters, Visa waiver program, traveling rules
- Internal Electronic Policies in the Age of “E-Discovery” (2008)
- Internal Electronic Policies in the Age of E-Discovery (2008)
- Immigration Update October (2008) - Visa Bulletin, Citizenship Changes, Emp. Auth. Documents, 2010 Diversity Immig. Visa Lottery
- How to Start and Build an Immigration Practice (2008) - Naturalization and Citizenship Requirements
- Who Pays the Insurance Deductible: (2008)
- Defending Against Employee Complaints and Litigating (2007)
- Federal Law Update (2007)
- Religious Accommodation in the Workplace (2007)
- The Nuts and Bolts of Deducting From Pay FMLA Issues (2007)
- The State Courts Speak (2007)
- Trademark "Scam" Solicitations Alert (2007)
- Accommodating Military Leave (2006)
- Gift Cards in the U.S. (2006)
- Guide for Starting a New Business in Washington State (2006)
- New Entity Solicitations Alert (2006)
- Qualification to do Business in Washington (2006)
- Quick Overview on U.S. and Washington State Securities Laws (2006)
- Selling Your Business (2006)
- U.S. Trademark Basics (2006)
- Wage and Hour Issues for Employers in the 21st Century (2006)
- Warranties and Service Plans (2006)
- About the IRS Circular 230 Disclosure (2005)
- Answers to Your Questions About U.S. Trademark Law (2005)
- Preparing the Exit Strategy (2005)
- Trust and Estate Litigation Subcommittee (2005)
- The Tricks that Protect Your Business Name (2004)
- U.S. Trademark Attorney Filing Foreign Trademarks in the U.S. (2004)
- Doing Business in the United States? Nonimmigrant Visa Categories Commonly Used by International Corporations (2003)
- Hit or Miss: The Use of Warrants, Options or Stock in Lieu of Cash (2003)
- Insurance Coverage for Trademark Infringement (2003)
- Recommended Estate Planning Techniques (2003)
- Copyrights - Should They Be Registered? (2002)
- Employee Benefits After Uniform Service (2002)
- Naked Trademark License Forfeits Trademark (2002)
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Kari Brotherton, CPA
Joel H. Paget
Philip M. Roberts