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Our lawyers have significant experience in all aspects of state and local taxation. As a firm founded in Ohio, we are especially active in Ohio state and local tax matters, and have more Ohio-based state and local tax professionals than any other law firm in the state. Seven of our attorneys and two non-attorney tax professionals devote their practices, full-time, to the state and local tax practice.

We offer our clients depth of knowledge about, and firsthand experience with, the diverse state and local tax issues that may arise in daily business operations or as a result of special transactions. Because tax litigation is expensive, risky and may fail to produce the best solution to a problem, our lawyers focus on working with our clients to identify and implement planning opportunities, to explain tax consequences, and to develop appropriate approaches to state and local tax issues. We routinely work with our government affairs attorneys to obtain legislative solutions to tax matters, and we also work to identify and minimize the tax effects of pending legislation or administrative policies.

When disputes arise, our attorneys vigorously defend our clients in tax audits and seek to develop creative approaches to resolving tax disputes. If litigation becomes necessary, our attorneys draw upon comprehensive knowledge of the relevant tax laws and firsthand experience in aggressively advocating our clients’ positions at both the trial and appellate levels.

Our attorneys and tax professionals are in regular contact with senior tax officials of the Ohio Department of Taxation and are leaders in the state and local tax area. Our attorneys have testified before the Ohio General Assembly, have argued before the Ohio Supreme Court, and have chaired the Ohio State Bar Association’s Taxation Committee. Our team of professionals also includes two non-lawyers who are former agents and officials of the Ohio Department of Taxation.

We regularly provide multistate tax analysis and services to support the operations of our clients with business operations throughout the country. Those multistate services are carefully tailored to meet the needs of our individual clients and may run the gamut of state and local tax matters. Our firm also is often called upon to serve as local counsel to assist other law firms and consultants with their clients’ tax issues in Ohio.