The attorneys in Capell Vishnick’s Tax Practice Group are dedicated planners and advocates who work with individuals and businesses to plan, develop and implement tax saving strategies and to defend against tax conflicts with federal, state and local tax authorities.

As tax planners, our attorneys first meet with our clients to learn about their business and personal aspirations and then assist them to implement creative plans in order to achieve optimal income and transfer tax savings.  For individuals, planning will often include the use of trusts and other tax planning techniques to reduce income, estate, gift and generation skipping transfer taxes.  Advanced tax savings techniques are used to provide estate tax liquidity using Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILITs), create “tax freezes” utilizing Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs), Grantor Retained Annuity and Unitrusts (GRATs and GRUTs), Sales to Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts (IDGTs), and fulfill charitable plans by methods utilizing Charitable Annuities, Charitable Lead Trusts, Charitable Remainder Trusts and Private Foundations.  For individuals and businesses, our attorneys assist in developing effective strategies to structure business and investment entities, utilizing Limited Liability Companies, Family Limited Partnerships and S-Corporations and other business structures.  Such planning may also benefit the individual by taking advantage of available minority and control discounts, thereby allowing a person to pass significant portions his or her estate with minimum gift or estate tax liability.

As advocates, our attorneys represent individuals and businesses at federal, state and local tax audits and litigation with respect to all areas of tax controversies.

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