Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP counsels and advises its clients with a wide range of services in the area of taxation. Among our attorneys, we have a certified public accountant and two attorneys with graduate degrees in taxation. One of our tax attorneys is a Certified Specialist in Taxation who has served as a taxation instructor for the State Bar of California Taxation Section and Golden Gate University's Graduate School of Taxation and as member of the Taxation Law Advisory Commission of the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Taxation planning and taxation litigation services include:

• Individual income tax, gift tax and estate tax planning;
• Tax planning for payment and receipt of compensation, including pension plans, deferred compensation, stock options and other tax advantaged methods of compensation;
• Tax planning utilizing corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and trusts, including formation, reorganization, division and liquidation;
• Planning for foreign corporations regarding California corporate and franchise tax requirements;
• Real estate transaction planning, including sales, simultaneous and non-simultaneous exchanges, condemnations and other involuntary conversions;
• Qualified Domestic Relations Orders and other tax planning relating to dissolution of marriage;
• California sales tax planning and litigation;
• Real property tax planning, including structuring transactions to avoid reassessment and contesting real property reassessments;
• Evaluation and creation of trusts, partnerships and other vehicles, and their use in transferring wealth between family members;
• Complex estate planning for large estates, including Generation Skipping Transfer Tax planning and implementation;
• Litigation of California tax disputes before the Franchise Tax Board, the State Board of Equalization and the California courts;

Litigation of United States tax disputes in the United States Tax Court and all other United States Courts.

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