Tax Law

Taylor Porter’s Tax team has extensive experience that ensure our clients continue to be abreast of the often-changing tax statutes and regulations both locally and nationally.

From individuals to small businesses to large corporations, tax needs vary, depending on the client, and our attorneys have proficiency in business formations, acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations and dissolutions, including structuring to minimize tax and liability exposure. We are experienced in representing non-profit, tax exempt, and charitable entities from initial consultation through organization and obtaining tax status determination letters to dissolution and liquidation. In addition to counseling clients, we represent clients before local, state, and federal tax authorities, including the Louisiana Department of Revenue and Taxation, the Board of Tax Appeals, the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Tax Court, and all other Louisiana and federal courts. 

Representative Experience:

• Representing clients in acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, and dissolutions, including structuring to minimize tax and liability exposure.
• Advising clients on formation and operations of entities for both tax planning and state law compliance issues and drafting business documents to achieve client objectives.
• Advising clients concerning business and personal financial transactions and options to lessen tax exposure.
• Handling large-scale federal, state, and local tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, Louisiana Department of Revenue, and local taxing authorities, including audits, administrative negotiations, trial preparation, and litigation.
• Assisting individuals and businesses in obtaining federal, state, and local tax and business incentives.
• Creating private and non-private foundations and obtaining favorable determination letters of charitable, tax-exempt status.
• Providing advice to non-profit entities on formation, corporate governance, tax exemption, and compliance with tax-exempt law.
• Developing the tax structure for sales, mergers, or acquisitions of businesses and drafting buy-sell agreements, asset or stock purchase agreements, operating agreements, or other corporate governance instruments.
• Providing business planning for closely held corporations and tax advice for matters from formation to liquidation.