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