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Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.'s Tax Law Group consists of experienced attorneys with strong credentials in the tax and estate planning field. Each attorney has earned a Masters Degree in Tax Law. The Firm serves clients' needs in the following areas:
- Tax planning for individuals in connection with business and personal transactions;
- Structuring partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, business trusts and other domestic and international business entities;
- Advising clients regarding estate planning matters, including drafting wills, trusts, family limited partnerships, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts, charitable lead and annuity trusts, charitable remainder trusts, and the creation of foundations and gift-giving programs intended to reduce estate taxes;
- Offshore estate planning for U.S. and foreign individuals;
- Advising non-U.S. taxpayers of the U.S. federal income tax consequences of doing business or making investments in the United States;
- Providing guidance to U.S. taxpayers on the U.S. federal income tax and the non-U.S. tax consequences of doing business or making investments abroad;
- Structuring domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring transactions;
- Advising clients with respect to real estate acquisitions, financing and restructuring-related workout transactions;
- Advising clients regarding tax issues involved with public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities;
- Advising clients concerning state and local tax issues;
- Representing taxpayers in tax examinations, protests before the Internal Revenue Service Appeals Office and in litigation before every federal court;
- Representing pension funds, foundations, charities and other tax-exempt organizations; and
- Providing guidance to taxpayers concerning employee benefits, including advice on designing, establishing and maintaining retirement and executive
compensation programs.

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