Tax PlanningTax Planning is an important component of our Wills, Trusts and Estates practice area and Business Formation and Business Law practice areas. Please click these links for more detailed information on how tax planning is addressed in each of these practice areas. Tax Return PreparationIn addition to advising clients on tax law and providing tax planning services, we offer our clients tax return preparation services. Many of our clients utilize this service because we can provide tax return preparation by an attorney-at-law, who maintains a tax law practice, at rates comparable to those rates charged by non-attorney tax preparation services. Furthermore, many of our clients, who already use the Firm for general tax planning and specific tax advice, believe it is more efficient and beneficial to have the Firm prepare their returns. Preparing our clients' tax returns also improves the Firm's ability to provide clients tax advice and tax planning needs because the Firm's attorneys develop a deeper and more complete understanding of the client's tax needs when preparing their returns. Attorney Virginia H. Henning is the attorney in charge of our tax return preparation practice. Attorney Henning currently provides clients with tax advice in the context of estate tax planning and business tax planning and represents clients before tax authorities, including the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and the Internal Revenue Service. Attorney Henning joined our Firm in December of 2006 after serving as the Legal Editor of the law journal, BNA, and law clerk for the Federal Reserve Board and Commodity Futures Trading Commissions. Ms. Henning is a member of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and the Tax Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. In 2003, Attorney Henning graduated cum laude from the Washington College of Law, American University during which she served on the American University International Law Review. In 1998, Attorney Henning graduated cum laude from Dickinson College in 1998 with a double major in Economics and Political Science and was a member of the International Economic Honor Society. When necessary, Attorney Henning consults with the other attorneys in the Firm, each of whom has prior experience in a variety of areas of tax law, including advising clients on tax law, representing clients before tax authorities, including the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and the Internal Revenue Service, and who each handle tax matters in their respective main practice areas, including estate planning and administration, real estate transactions and business entity formation and business transactions. Our attorneys have experience preparing the following returns, forms and schedules including but not limited to: individual Form 1040s and PA Form 40s, Form 1120-S US Income Tax Return for S Corporations, Form 2553 S-Corporation Election, Form 8453-S S Corporation Declaration and Signature for Electronic Filing, Form 1061 Partnership Return of Income, Schedule K-1 Partner's Share of Income, etc., Schedule C for sole proprietors, Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Returns on behalf of estates, Form 1099-INT for interest payments, Form 1099-DIV for dividend payments, Form 1099-G for any refund, credit or offset of state and local taxes, Form 1099-R for distributions from pensions, annuities, retirement or profit-sharing plans, IRAs and insurance contracts. On behalf of employers, the Firm's attorneys have prepared and filed the following returns including but limited to: Form 941 Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return, PA Form UC-2 Employer's Report for UC, PA UC-2A Employer's Report of Wages Paid to Each Employee, Form 941-V Payment Voucher, PA Form W-3R Employers Quarterly Reconciliation Return of Income Withheld. Contact a Harrisburg Tax Attorney for a free consultation. Civil Tax Settlements and LitigationOur attorneys represent clients before the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, the Board of Appeals within the Department of Revenue and the Board of Finance and Revenue within the Department of Treasury in disputes with the Department of Revenue concerning state imposed taxes including the Pennsylvania Income Tax, the Pennsylvania Sales Tax, Pennsylvania Employee Withholding Taxes, the Pennsylvania Corporate Net Income Tax, the Pennsylvania Capital Stock and Foreign Franchise Tax and the Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax. Contact a Harrisburg Tax Attorney for a free consultation. Defense of Criminal Tax CasesOur criminal defense attorneys have extensive experience representing individuals and business entities in state courts charged with a variety of tax crimes. In none of these cases did our Firm prepare the client's returns or even know of the existence of the client prior to the client retaining our Firm. In all of these criminal tax fraud cases our attorneys were able to obtain outstanding results for our clients. In every criminal tax case, our attorneys have been able to have charges dismissed for insufficient evidence and have obtained sentences that have never included incarceration. In representing these clients, our criminal attorneys work with our tax attorney to thoroughly analyze the returns filed by our clients in cases involving the following criminal charges. Our criminal and tax attorneys work very well together in determining the correct amount of tax owed and whether the Commonwealth is correct or incorrect in its tax position. Our criminal attorneys have successfully resolved criminal tax cases involving the following charges:
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