Tax

Hancock & Estabrook has a premier tax practice. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing individuals, closely-held businesses and multi-national corporations. Our experience in federal and state taxation includes:

• Income tax planning for individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations;
• Partnership and corporate reorganizations and restructurings;
• Family limited partnerships and family limited liability companies;
• Sophisticated estate planning through tools such as qualified personal residence trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable remainder trusts, private annuities, self-canceling installment notes and grantor retained annuity trusts;
• Valuation discount planning;
• Empire Zone planning;
• Controversies before federal and state taxing authorities;
• Advice to charitable and tax-exempt entities;
• Mergers and acquisitions;
• Requests for private letter rulings on complex tax issues;
• Employee benefit plans;
• Bankruptcy and cancellation of indebtedness planning; and
• Federal and state tax litigation.

Our tax attorneys author articles and lecture on complex tax issues.

For information on the New Requirements Under IRS Circular 230, click here