Corporate Tax
Our corporate tax group regularly advises corporations on federal, state and local income and property tax matters arising during incorporation, on-going operations, reorganizations, or dissolution. As our corporate clients prosper, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd assists shareholders, directors, and officers implement creative, tax-efficient strategies for expansion, benefit packages, ownership succession, reorganizations, and mergers and acquisitions.
RECENT MATTERS
- As general counsel to several regional, nation, and international corporations, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd regularly provides on-going advice to generate greater operational tax efficiencies.
- Regularly negotiate the purchase or sale of substantially all or the assets or stock of corporations.
- Regularly represent companies in the establishment of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (“ESOPs”), transfer of the company to the ESOP, and subsequent sale of the ESOP to a third party.
- Plan and execute tax-efficient reorganizations of corporations under IRC section 368.
- Assist nonprofit corporations to obtain tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.
- Counsel clients on the benefits of incorporation under Subchapter S versus Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Structure sophisticated compensation arrangements for compliance with ERISA and the recently-enacted nonqualified deferred compensation regulations under IRC section 409A.
- Regularly advise and draft stock option plans, phantom or shadow stock plans, restricted units, performance units, stock warrants, and golden parachute arrangements.
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