Formation of corporations and LLCs; stockholder, operating, and other ownership agreements; commercial leases; asset/stock purchase agreements; loan agreements; extensive experience with veterinary, medical and other professional practices.
IRS Trust-Fund Recovery Penalties, Unfiled Returns, Unpaid Taxes, Liens, Levies, CDPs, Offers in Compromise, Installment Agreements, Audits, Offshore Accounts, Innocent Spouse, Appeals, U.S. Tax Court and other federal and state courts.
Mediation, arbitration, and litigation in federal and Maryland courts, including jury and non-jury trials, and appeals, primarily involving tax controversies and business litigation.
39 years, 100 cases
Steve Kauffman is a lawyer, CPA, and former IRS revenue agent who brings this knowledge to bear during his representation of individuals and businesses with a wide variety of tax and business-related matters. He represents individual and small-to-medium sized business clients with serious federal and state tax problems including unfiled returns, substantial balances due, audits, criminal investigations, personal liability for delinquent payroll taxes (i.e. trust-fund recovery penalties) and sales and use taxes, foreign bank and financial accounts, foreign businesses, and litigation in the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Court, Court of Federal Claims, Courts of Appeals, US Supreme Court, and all Maryland and DC courts. He also has extensive experience representing businesses and business owners structure and negotiate large transactions, as well as litigating disputes between owners, or with third parties.
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