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Maynard Cooper's tax attorneys are experienced in advising and representing clients concerning all types of federal, state/local and foreign taxes. The firm provides general tax planning advice, tax consulting on issues related to business activities and transactions (including executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions and dispositions of stock or assets) and counseling through tax controversies.

Tax Planning
Maynard Cooper’s tax attorneys provide advice and develop plans and structures for clients in connection with the organization and operation of business entities including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, in order to help clients reduce applicable federal, state/local and foreign taxes. In addition, our attorneys are experienced in identifying and negotiating state and local tax incentives, including tax abatements, income tax credits, site preparation grants and enterprise zone benefits (for more information, see description of our Economic Development and Incentives Practice Group). We routinely apply for letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service and the Alabama Department of Revenue.

Business Transactions
Maynard Cooper has a substantial business transactions practice, and each such transaction raises significant tax issues. Our tax attorneys are experienced in assisting and advising our clients on tax issues in connection with all types of sophisticated business transactions.

Tax Controversies
Our tax attorneys handle all types of state and federal tax controversies. Maynard Cooper has been especially successful in Alabama state and local tax controversy work. In the last fifteen years, our clients have prevailed on the major issues in every single state and local tax controversy matter through appeal.

Our attorneys are experienced in dealing with tax authorities on all administrative levels, including the Alabama Department of Revenue and the Internal Revenue Service. We also have broad experience in handling tax controversies in the United States Tax Court, United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeals.

Maynard Cooper’s tax group has eight attorneys, seven of whom hold the LL.M. degree and one of whom was employed for several years as a trial attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel to the Internal Revenue Service. All of our tax attorneys are active in organizations of state and federal tax professionals, and regularly share our learning by lecturing to other lawyers and accountants both within the state of Alabama and throughout the United States.

Maynard Cooper & Gale PC
Regions Harbert Plaza #2400
1901 6th Avenue N
Birmingham AL 35203-2618
Tel: 205 254-1000
Fax: 205 254-1999
E-mail: macoga@maynardcooper.com

A full service law firm with over 200 lawyers, Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C. serves its clients through offices in Birmingham, the largest city in Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama's fastest growing city and home to the aerospace industry and a rapidly growing high-tech market, Mobile, home to one of the largest ports in the gulf region, and in Montgomery, the State capital.