Scott Kauffman

Scott Kauffman has devoted more than twenty-five years as a tax attorney to resolving the tax litigation and controversies acing his clients. Scott has considerable experience in representing his clients before both Federal and State courts and agencies upon such issues as collections, liens, levies, trust fund liability, employee/independent contractor classification, estate and gift tax valuation, and tax residency issues. 

Scott earned his baccalaureate degree from Ohio University in 1975, graduatingSumma Cum Laude and his Juris Doctorate degree from The Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in 1977, graduating in the upper ten percent of his class. While in law school, Scott was a member of the Environmental Law Review and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Conflict of Laws. After graduating from law school, Scott worked part-time, first as a county prosecutor and then as a public defender while also working part-time as a sole practitioner.

Wishing to specialize his practice, Scott earned an LL.M. from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in Transnational Business and Taxation in 1985 and LL.M. in Taxation in 1986.

Scott is admitted to practice before all California state courts, United States Tax Court, United States District Court for the Central District of California and the Northern District of California.

Scott resides in Newport Beach, California, where he enjoys spending time gardening, reading and writing fiction. He is a published novelist and award-winning short story writer.