Becker & Poliakoff

Individual Income Tax Planning

The firm’s Tax & Estate Planning attorneys have strong credentials and extensive experience in this highly specialized area of the law. The firm serves clients’ needs in the following areas:

  • Tax advising non-U.S. taxpayers of the U.S. federal income tax consequences of doing business or making investments in the United States;
  • Tax planning for individuals in connection with business and personal transactions;
  • Structuring partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, business trusts and other domestic and international business entities;
  • Structuring domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring transactions;
  • Advising clients with respect to real estate acquisitions, financing and restructuring-related workout transactions;
  • Advising clients regarding tax issues involved with public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities;
  • Advising clients concerning state and local tax issues;
  • Representing taxpayers in tax examinations, protests before the Internal Revenue Service Appeals Office and in litigation before every federal court;
  • Representing pension funds, foundations, charities and other tax-exempt organizations;
  • Providing guidance to taxpayers concerning employee benefits, including advice on designing, establishing and maintaining retirement and executive compensation programs;
  • Advising clients regarding tax issues involved with public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities; and
  • Advising clients concerning state and local tax issues.