Accolades
Alston & Bird SALT attorneys focus exclusively on state and local tax matters across the country and have been recognized for their leadership in this field of law. They include:
- three of the tax attorneys listed in The Best Lawyers in America
- two Fellows of the American College of Tax Counsel;
- a recipient of the National State and Local Tax Professional of the Year, awarded by the Journal of State Taxation;
- a former general counsel to the Council On State Taxation (COST), who has filed more than 15 amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in state tax cases;
- current and past adjunct faculty at Duke University School of Law, Emory University School of Law, Georgia State University School of Accountancy and North Carolina University School of Law;
- a designee by a senior editor of State Tax Notes to the “State Tax Decade Dream Team,” based upon involvement in “every major state tax policy initiative”;
- four past chairs of the Taxation Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, the tax section’s former liaison with the Georgia Department of Revenue, and the current and a past chair of the executive committee of the National Association of State Bar Tax Sections;
- attorneys who serve on the editorial boards of the BNA Advisory Board, the Journal of Multistate Taxation, the State Income Tax Alert and The State and Local Tax Lawyer;
- authors of several BNA state tax portfolios, editors of the CCH Guidebooks to Georgia taxes and North Carolina taxes, and authors of numerous articles in the Journal of Multistate Taxation, the Journal of State Taxation, State Tax Notes, The State and Local Tax Lawyer, and The Tax Lawyer;
- a trustee and an advisory board member of the Paul Hartman Memorial Institute on State and Local Taxation at Vanderbilt University School of Law;
- a former counsel to the Pennsylvania Board of Finance and Revenue;
- a past chair and the current chair of NASBTS; and
- the lead counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case, Fulton Corporation v. Faulkner, holding the former North Carolina intangibles tax unconstitutional.
Bringing Value to Our Clients
One of our Fortune 100 clients faced the prospect of realizing a gain in excess of $1 billion and conflicting claims to the right to tax that income in its home state and other states in which it conducted business. We helped this client structure a unique agreement with the home state that insured against multiple taxation of the gain. We also have represented six separate coalitions of taxpayers, many of whom sold their products via the Internet, in the negotiation of prospective-only collection agreements for state sales and use taxes. We obtained these agreements in 43 different states with an average of 35 states per coalition. Additionally, we have represented clients in litigation matters in more than 20 different states involving income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, and property taxes.