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Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason provides innovative and practical solutions to the complex tax issues facing businesses and individuals today. Our tax attorneys have extensive understanding of the latest developments in tax law and provide in-depth, sophisticated solutions to problems at the federal, state and local levels. The tax practice provides planning advice that is seamlessly integrated with the services provided by the relevant business and individual practice groups. Our attorneys counsel business entities and individuals on tax issues relating to corporations, pass through business entities, like-kind exchanges, housing tax credits, tax controversies, equity-based and executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, as well as sales, use and excise taxes. We help our clients achieve their business and personal financial objectives while minimizing tax exposure. 1. Corporations and S-Corporations We bring our expertise to bear on the challenges faced by both public and private corporations, including closely held companies. We guide corporations organized under Internal Revenue Code subchapters C and S alike, counseling them and their shareholders on the appropriate structures, transactional methods and responses needed to minimize tax burdens and comply with relevant authorities from initial formation, operation and through the wind-up of businesses. 2. Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies We advise partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships and limited liability companies (“LLCs”) regarding a wide array of business activities. Our attorneys are well-versed in the intricacies of Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code and have extensive experience in the laws of multiple jurisdictions, so that we can provide meticulous advice to clients on all aspects of partnership and LLC operations, including mergers, acquisitions, divisions and dissolutions of partnerships, all with a sensitivity to the most tax efficient structures available. 3. Tax Controversies and Audits Even with skilled advice and good-faith efforts by taxpayers, controversies do arise from time-to-time. We provide able and cost-effective representation to clients at every stage of a tax controversy, including compliance errors, examinations, audits, administrative proceedings and appeals, and litigation – where litigation proves necessary. 4. Real Estate and Like-Kind Exchanges Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason’s traditional excellence in real estate transactional work extends to providing real estate-related tax services. Our team advises real estate clients on a variety of tax strategies, including strategies and planning to maximize capital gains treatment and to defer realization of taxable gain. These strategies include Section 1031 like-kind exchanges, whether simultaneous, deferred or reverse, as well as installment sales, the use of tenancies in common and sale-leasebacks. 5. Stock Options and Stock Compensation We represents a wide range of employers in developing incentive compensation plans for their officers and other employees. Our attorneys advise both publicly and privately held companies and organizations, helping them to craft plans that fit their particular needs. Such plans can include as appropriate stock options, restricted stock, stock purchase rights, stock appreciation rights, supplemental executive retirement plans, phantom stock, and dividend equivalent rights. Our integrated approach ensures that the plans are compliant with all of the applicable laws and regulations and enables us to assist companies with all disclosure and filing requirements. 6. Executive Compensation We also advise companies and executives on the entire gamut of executive compensation issue in the face of ever-changing compensation. Our team of tax and business attorneys seamlessly integrates tax advice with extensive expertise in employment and securities law. We guide companies in developing plans for equity-based compensation, deferred compensation, bonus plans, golden parachutes and separation agreements. 7. Tax Credits and Low Income Housing Tax Credits Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason represents developers and other parties in the affordable housing industry. We have the knowledge needed to guide clients through the acquisition, financing and development of projects using Low Income Housing Tax Credits or conventional, HUD, FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac multifamily loans, and even including state and local housing programs in Colorado, such as those overseen by the Colorado Department of Housing and the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. 8. Mergers and Acquisitions We provide clients with suitable tax strategies for both public and private mergers and acquisitions, including holding company formations, spinoffs, and recapitalizations. Our expertise enables us to develop creative and efficient approaches to minimizing the tax burdens arising from these transactions. We are always sensitive to the need to fashion structures that will survive the scrutiny of the taxing authorities, providing results that are both proven and tax efficient. 9. Sales, Use and Excise Taxes State and local taxes can pose unique challenges. Given the overwhelming and bewildering variety of such taxes, with sometimes contradictory rules, skilled tax advice is vital if a business is to flourish. We guide clients through the labyrinth of state and local taxes, both within Colorado and in other states where our clients operate. Among the issues we tackle are questions regarding state and local nexus, valuation of assets, taxability of sales (including e-commerce) and the appropriateness of use and excise tax assessments. IRS Circular 230 Disclosure To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the Internal Revenue Service, we inform you that any U.S. Federal tax advice contained on this website is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein. The attorneys in the Tax Organizations Group include:
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