Corporate Tax

Parr Waddoups provides legal counsel with respect to United States federal, state and local tax issues affecting business and investment ownership and transactions. We work with corporate clients on long-term strategic tax planning issues.

Representative corporate tax services

• Tax planning and capital structure design for the formation of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, tax-exempt entities, and other business entities.

• Acquisition and dispositions of businesses and their assets, including two-party and triangular mergers, spin-offs, share exchanges and other tax free corporate reorganizations, 338(h)(10) elections and partnership mergers.

• Structure of corporate mergers and other reorganizations (acquisitive and divisive) to maximize tax savings.

• Umbrella REIT and other techniques to defer taxation on real estate transfers.

• Deferred and reverse like-kind exchanges, tax-deferred condemnation reinvestments, installment sales and sale leasebacks.

• Tax-sensitive leveraged equipment leasing.

• Entity conversions, capital restructurings and debt workouts.

• Business succession planning.

• Cross-border sale, leasing and licensing transactions.

• Leveraged buy-outs and acquisitions through joint venture entities.

• Representation in tax-related disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and other taxing authorities.

• Tax planning for debt workouts.

• Assistance for non-resident businesses in evaluating and reducing the state and local tax cost of transacting business in Utah.

Attorneys serving the Corporate Tax group:

• Black, Michael D.
• Fleming, Matthew C.
• Gertsch, Barton L.
• Hale, Stephen E. W.
• Hansen, Dale T.
• Neeleman, Stanley D.
• Tillou, Kenneth B.