Taxation
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell assists clients with the navigation of tax laws at all levels of government — federal, state and local — for the purpose of creating tax-wise strategies and business plans.
FEDERAL TAX PLANNING
In conjunction with our business and securities and employee benefits practice areas, our tax partner, Don Saxon, designs tax minimization plans that provide maximum personal liability insulation. We help clients achieve the minimum adverse tax effect resulting from entity organization, expansion/retraction, merger/acquisition and owner/employee compensation.
- Entity selection for startup and mature businesses
- Tax-free reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions
- Real property transactions; 1031 exchanges
- Tax-free bond transactions
- Split-dollar insurance arrangements
- Trust company and bank trust division operations and compliance
- Non-profit entities; formation and qualification
- Tax controversies; representing taxpayers before the IRS, in tax court and federal district court
NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE TAXES
With the combined expertise of our economic analysis and government relations professionals, we are intimately familiar with New Hampshire's entire state tax structure including:
- Unitary taxation issues/audits
- Business profits tax
- Business enterprise tax
- Statewide property tax
- Public utility property tax
- Insurance company taxation
- Real estate transfer tax
- Interest and dividends tax
- Meals and rooms tax
- Electric consumption tax
- Other state levies
LOCAL TAX
Through our business and securities, municipal, government relations, and litigation practice area professionals, we represent individuals, institutions, public utilities, and other commercial entities in all aspects of local taxation with particular emphasis on the assessment, abatement, appeal, and litigation of real property taxes.
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