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Tax Services

We offer a number of tax planning, tax controversy and tax compliance services, with a specialization in:

o Transfer Pricing
o International Tax
o Valuation
o Multistate Tax and
o Nonprofit Taxation

Specific tax services include:

o Transfer pricing studies, reviews and audit assistance

  • Worldwide studies under OECD guidelines or §482
  • Contemporaneous documentation for penalty protection under §6662
  • Reviews of consolidated tax position (or by selected countries) to assess audit risk or tax arbitrage opportunity

  • Cost sharing studies under §482 to tax advantage non-US use of intellectual property
  • Advanced Pricing Agreements
  • Small and large taxpayer
  • Market penetration studies under §482
  • §482 Controversies and litigation support
  • Appeal (Protest) of §482 Adjustment
  • Detailed economic analysis of industry to defend specific taxpayers
o International and domestic/multistate tax planning strategies and structures

o Tax compliance (federal and all states including estates, trusts, nonprofits)

o Merger and acquisition tax review analysis

  • International, multistate and intellectual property issues
  • Due diligence review and tax and transfer pricing exposure
  • Structures to optimize after tax return on intellectual property

o Nonprofit applications for exempt status and related services

o State and multistate tax issues

  • Intellectual Property Holding companies

o Tax debt collection matters

  • Offers in Compromise and related issues

o Involuntary conversion via theft of intellectual property

  • Determination of damages
  • Specialized assistance for tax minimization under §1033

Business Services

We offer a broad range of business consulting services. We have a suite of options under our Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") services. We also provide economic consulting with a focus on litigation support and marketing assistance and other related services.

CFO services

o Provided on a temporary or permanent part-time or on an as-needed basis

o Financial Reporting Functions

  • Preparation and review of financial statements
  • Actual versus budget variance reports
  • Cash balances available and float reports
  • Inventory turnover and shrinkage reports
  • Detail property and depreciation reports
  • Job cost and cost accounting reports
  • Product line profit contribution reports
o Financial Management Functions
  • Establishing/monitoring accounting reporting systems, procedures and internal controls Inventory control systems
  • Cost systems (Job, Standard, Process, Activity-Based, etc.)
  • Bank and other reconciliations
  • Tax & accounting department human resources management
  • Computer software conversions - Evaluation, recommendations & implementation
  • Liaison with external auditors
o Treasury and Cash Management Functions
  • Preparation of cash flow projections, cash flow budgets/plans
  • Coaching and assistance in:
    • Monitoring/Accelerating collections
    • Investing excess working capital
    • Timing and control of payables
    • Negotiating terms with creditors/lessors
    • Establishing /managing lines of credit
    • Developing customer credit terms policies
    • Risk management
o Financial Planning and Analysis Functions
  • Establishing budget methods and procedures
  • Preparing budgets and forecasts
  • Analyzing break-even structure
  • Analyzing budget variances
  • Analyzing and planning product/service profitability
  • Evaluating new products/services profitability
  • Preparation of capital budgets for asset procurement
  • Investigating merger/acquisition candidates
Economic Consulting / Litigation Support

o Litigation support for tax, civil and criminal law

o Damages, specialization in damages from theft of intellectual property and treatment under §1033

o Intellectual property management

o Intangible Holding Company structures

o Business valuations of intellectual property

o Mergers and acquisition due diligence (transfer pricing and international issues)

Marketing

o Strategic Planning

o Corporate Identity

o Product Marketing

o Corporate Communications

o Marketing Communications

o Event Management

Other Related Services

o New entity selection and consultation

o Pension accounting

o Court accounting

o Special projects and bookkeeping

o Non-US Tax, auditing, accounting, legal and other business services as provided by accounting firms in other countries with which we have a strategic alliances

o Tax fraud (litigation support)



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