In today's complex, ever-changing tax environment you need guidance and creativity from knowledgeable professionals who identify and implement tax planning strategies that limit present and future tax liabilities.
Gumbiner Savett provides a wide range of tax consulting and planning solutions for individuals, businesses, estates, trusts and private foundations. Our experienced team of tax professionals knows that proper tax planning requires a thorough understanding of each client's unique objectives, plans, and opportunities. That is why we take a proactive approach to ensure that compliance requirements are fulfilled and every opportunity to minimize tax liabilities is examined.
By creating long term relationships and customized tax solutions for our clients we provide creative and flexible options that eliminate, reduce or defer tax obligations.
State & Local Tax
Since state and local tax rules, regulations and interpretations continuously change, our tax professionals meet with and advise clients on how these changes affect them on a year-round basis. We keep clients informed about new and developing tax issues and provide innovative solutions to help them achieve their business and financial objectives.
Gumbiner Savett takes a proactive, collaborative approach to ensure that state and local tax minimization initiatives are fulfilled while every opportunity to minimize tax liabilities is explored.
Our services include:
- Sales and use tax reviews
- Audit representation & resolution
- Multi-state income/franchise and sales & use tax nexus studies
- Transaction planning and structuring
- Individual and business entity income tax consulting
- Multi-state individual and business planning and consulting
For more information, please go to our State & Local Tax page.
International Tax Services
The pursuit of international business opportunities creates a broad range of challenges: Complying with foreign tax and regulatory issues, properly structuring overseas transactions and evaluating all of the tax consequences and complexities associated with doing business internationally.
Gumbiner Savett offers a full range of integrated domestic and international tax services to help you achieve your global business objectives. Our professionals have extensive experience in international tax planning and consulting. Combined with our BKR International affiliation (a worldwide association of independent accounting firms), our tax expertise transcends over 70 countries throughout the world to help meet our client's needs.
Our services include:
- Strategic structuring for U.S. companies tapping foreign markets
- Merger and acquisition advisory for cross-border business combinations
- Advising foreign businesses entering the U.S. market
- Tax planning for global investments using optimal capital structures
- Reducing the worldwide effective tax rate
- Expatriate and global employment assistance, planning and compliance
- Assistance with transfer pricing studies
- Foreign reporting and compliance
For more information, please go to our International Tax page.
Tax Credits and Incentives
Are you receiving the maximum amount of credits and incentives available to your business?
Many state and local authorities offer incentives to attract new businesses and expand existing ones. However, researching the opportunities and keeping track of these ever-changing incentives can be a challenge. Your company may be engaged in activities that qualify for expanded federal and state tax deductions and or credits. Gumbiner Savett works with clients to uncover and document these activities and costs to ensure that all benefits are maximized.
Our services include:
- Identifying state tax incentives, abatements and credits from qualifying activities
- Qualifying for the Federal Research & Development tax credit
- Reducing current-year effective tax rate
- Refunds from previously filed federal and state income tax returns
- Jobs Creation Tax Credits
- Enterprise and empowerment zones
Public Company Tax Services
Gumbiner Savett offers a comprehensive range of tax services to public companies including services "prohibited" by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in conjunction with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Our services include:
- Corporate tax planning and compliance
- Tax provision preparation, review and analysis (FASB 109)
- FIN 48 analysis and preparation and review
- Section 382 Studies (net operating loss limitation analysis)
- Research credit maximization
- Tax services "prohibited" by Sarbanes-Oxley including:
- Preparation of the quarterly and annual tax provision for the financial statements
- Personal tax services for officers with financial oversight responsibility
For more information, please go to our Public Company Services page.
For up-to-date information about tax planning including: investing, real estate, executive comp, education, charitable, retirement and estate planning, check out our Web Tax Guide.
Request a complimentary copy of the 2012-2013 Tax Planning Guide via our Contact Us page. Just write "Tax Planning Guide" in the "Comment" section.
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