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Richard L. Lawton

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Rick Lawton chairs the TC nonprofit practice area and has significant experience and knowledge regarding tax-exempt organizations, including executive compensation and related excess benefit transaction issues. His tax practice includes a variety of federal (domestic and international), state and local tax matters with experience in the following areas:

• Tax-exempt organizations, including creating non-profit
   organizations, obtaining tax-exempt status, public charity
   and private foundation issues and unrelated business
   taxable income issues
• Taxation of corporations and shareholders (especially
   closely-held corporations)
• International taxation, including the taxation of foreign
   corporations, foreign operations and transactions, 
   controlled foreign corporations, foreign taxes, foreign 
   tax credits, intercompany transactions, tax treaties 
   and export incentives
• State and local taxation, including income, sales and use 
   and property taxes
• Internal Revenue Service practice and procedure
• Federal, state and local controversy work, including 
   protests, appeals, negotiations and settlements

American Bar Association
Taxation and Business Law Sections
Missouri Bar Association
Tax Law Section
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Past Chair, Tax Section
American Chemical Society
Barry-Wehmiller
Bethesda Health Group
Diocese of Belleville
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
General Ore International Corporation
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Maritz Inc.
The Principia Corporation
Regional Business Council
St. Louis Zoo Foundation
UniGroup, Inc.
US Bank
Washington University
The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 for Nonprofit Law and Tax Law (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.)
Listed for more than 10 years (Tax Law)
Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers®
Co-Author: “Sales and Use Taxes-Substantive Aspects” Missouri Taxation Law and Practice, 3rd Ed. (1996)
Co-Author: “Sales and Use Taxes-Substantive Aspects” Missouri Taxation Law and Practice 2d Ed. (1989 Supplement)
Co-Author: “Sales and Use Taxes-Substantive Aspects” Missouri Taxation Law and Practice, 2d Ed. (1987)
Co-Author: “Forum Selection in Federal Tax Litigation” Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, St. Louis Bar Journal (Summer, 1986)
"IRS Form 990 and State Charitable Solicitation Registration Requirements", AZA CFO Conference Round Table (October 2011)
"Charitable Gifts of Real Estate: UBTI Considerations and Concerns", AUREO 2011 Conference (September 2011)
“Intermediate Sanctions: An Analysis of the Proposed Regulations”, St. Louis Health Lawyers Association (December 1998)
“Missouri Corporation Franchise Tax”, Corporate Income and Franchise Tax in Missouri, National Business Institute Inc. (September 30, 1992)
“Intercompany Transactions”, Organizing and Operating Foreign Owned Business in the United States (April 2, 1990)
“Tax Planning- FSC/DISC Alternatives for Small Exporters”, Profiting From International Trade (January 16, 1985)
Richard L. Lawton
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
LL.M. (1988)
J.D. (1984)
University of Chicago
M.B.A. (1977)
Syracuse University
B.S. (1975)
Thompson Coburn LLP
Partner (1993-Present)
Associate (1984-1992)
Missouri (1984)