Our tax practice involves a wide variety of federal, state and local matters dealing with tax planning and tax controversies. We are involved in all aspects of tax planning, including rendering tax advice relating to business start-up operations, financing, ownership changes, taxable and tax-free acquisitions, reorganizations, liquidations, dispositions and terminations of businesses. This work includes analysis of the tax consequences of proposed transactions, developing alternative transactional strategies, rendering tax opinions and obtaining private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service. Our representation includes tax planning for regional, national and international clients, including limited liability companies, corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorships. We assist both publicly held and privately held enterprises as well as not-for-profit entities.

An important part of our tax practice involves contested federal, state and local tax matters for a variety of business and individual clients, as well as municipalities.

We have one of the most active practices in Missouri relating to state income tax and sales tax matters and members of the tax department are active on the Missouri Director of Revenue’s Advisory Committee.

We also assist multi-state clients with respect to state tax jurisdictional issues and reporting and collection matters.

We have extensive experience in all aspects of Federal, state and local taxation of all types of not-for-profit organizations, including charitable, religious and governmental organizations, hospitals and other health care providers, and cooperatives. We have assisted in the establishment of a number of tax exempt entities and in obtaining determinations of tax exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code. We recently have assisted in planning a joint venture of local hospitals, and in obtaining tax exempt status for an organization which operates as a type of supervisory authority of a major community in the St. Louis area. In addition, we have assisted not-for-profit organizations in monitoring and avoiding unrelated business taxable income and in reducing state and local property and sales taxes. As a result of these and other representations, we have an in-depth understanding of the tax issues that will arise in connection with the operation of tax exempt entities.