REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Jeff’s extensive representative experience includes:
- Serving as national multi-state tax counsel to a leading cable television provider including assisting in resolving numerous multi-state tax audits spanning business and nonbusiness issues, and serving as national counsel before the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) on various state income tax matters.
- Assisting a Fortune 100 telecommunications company in coordinating its national controversy and litigation regarding challenges to state tax allocation positions associated with certain business transactions.
- Developing and implementing a multi-state tax strategy to address intercompany debt and other issues impacting state income tax apportionment for a multi-billion dollar corporation.
- Providing a broad range of state tax consulting and audit defense for a leading global technology services provider.
- Representing a Fortune 50 technology corporation in multi-state income tax audit defense, including business and nonbusiness income issues.
- Engaging in state tax policy advocacy efforts, including for national and state legislative initiatives, on behalf of various retail clients.
- Successfully intervening on behalf of the state of Florida in a case involving the constitutionality of tax on satellite television.
- Testifying before the U.S. State Finance Committee on state tax matters.
- Representing the United States at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Selected for inclusion in the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook in the area of tax (2008)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Faculty Member, Council on State Taxation Income Tax School and the Tax Executive Institute’s State and Local Tax School
- Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University’s State and Local Tax course offered as part of its LL.M. program
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Author, “The Redemption of Equitable Apportionment,” The Tax Executive (September–October 2006)
- Co-author, “Check Your California Receipts: California Supreme Court Should Provide Appropriate Standards For Equitable Apportionment,” Tax Analysts (September 5, 2005)
- Co-author, “Filling State Coffers,” Legal Times (October 25, 2004)
- Speaker, “State Attacks on Inter-Company Transactions,” TCPI Conference (February 25, 2009)
- Speaker, “Looking Forward—Sales Tax Impact of Federal Legislation,” The 2009 National Multistate Tax Symposium (February 4, 2009)
- Speaker, Tax Executives Institute Houston Chapter (February 2, 2009)
- Speaker, “Penalties—Automatic? Amnesty? Heavy Handed?” New York University Conference 27th Institute on State and Local Taxation (December 16, 2008)
- Speaker, “Significant Federal & State Decisions That Impact Telecommunication,” Broadband Tax Insititute (October 20, 2008)
- Speaker, “Ethical & Practical Considerations in Accounting for Income Taxes,” 15th Annual Paul J. Hartman SALT Forum (October 28, 2008)