Pierce Atwood's Tax attorneys work closely with the firm's Business, Energy Infrastructure, and Real Estate Practice Groups to deliver coordinated and seamless advice to address our clients' overall business and personal objectives. We pride ourselves on creating practical, tax-efficient structures to meet our client's needs. Our lawyers provide planning, transactional, litigation, regulatory and legislative services to business taxpayers, associations and individuals on all state and local tax issues and economic development incentives.
We assist with transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial financing, and business succession planning, that frequently involve complex federal, state, and international tax issues. Our attorneys also represent both individuals and businesses in tax controversies and disputes before all levels of the IRS, the United States Tax Court, and Federal District Courts.
We also assist our local and multistate clients with Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island tax issues and advise multistate businesses on state tax nexus, apportionment, and planning issues with respect to sales and operations in other states.
In addition to the areas of expertise listed below, our tax attorneys handle a myriad of other issues such as insurance premiums taxes, hospital taxes, tree growth taxes, residency issues for individuals and trusts, and unclaimed property issues.