State and Local Tax Services

Alpern Rosenthal provides a wide range of state and local taxation services to its clients. Companies doing business in multiple jurisdictions face an increasingly complex and confusing array of inconsistent tax rules. Alpern Rosenthal provides multi-state taxpayers with cost effective solutions to a wide variety of state and local tax issues through the combined efforts of our local resources as well as those of our nationwide network of affiliated firms. Services provided by our State and Local Taxation Department include:

• Consulting
- tax minimization planning
- advice in structuring transactions; including mergers and acquisitions

• Compliance
- insuring compliance and avoiding potential penalties in the areas of income and franchise taxes, local income taxes and gross receipts taxes

• Nexus Studies and Apportionment Analysis
- manage risk and identify opportunities

• Sales and Use Tax
- transaction planning advice
- audit defense
- refund claims

• Representation before state and local taxing authorities
- petitions for relief and/or refunds
- hearings before administrative agencies