Practice Areas
Individual & Corporate Tax
Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel's tax attorneys provide tax services to clients ranging from individuals to public companies, both local in Chattanooga and regional in the Southeast. We advise and counsel on all types of Federal and State tax matters, choice of business structure, mergers and acquisitions, state tax planning, representation before the IRS and other taxing authorities, and international tax advice.
Our attorneys also handle tax-exempt organizations. Our tax return preparations department provides a wide range of tax return preparation services. We routinely handle the following:
- Assistance to businesses, individuals, and CPA firms on complex tax issues
- Charitable gift planning
- Federal and State tax planning for individuals and entities
- International taxation and cross-border transactions
- Like-kind exchanges
- Private Letter Rulings by Internal Revenue Service
- Representation before the courts and taxing authorities
- Employee Benefits and Retirement Planning
- Sales and Use Tax
- Structuring mergers and acquisitions
- Tax-exempt entities formation and operation
- Tax return preparation for individuals, trusts, estates, and corporations
- Assisting individual executors and trustees in administration of estates and trusts.
Representative Matters
- Advised venture capital fund as to most efficient tax structure
- Advised multi-national company as to most efficient tax structure of European acquisition
- Provided business and tax planning relating to medical practice mergers
- Represented tax-exempt educational institution in regard to an IRS challenge to its exempt status
- Represented public company in corporate restructuring
- Represented individuals and businesses in state and federal tax audits
- Advised and counseled regularly with a number of foundations, churches, charitable trusts, and other tax-exempt entities.