Practice Areas: Tax
John E. Williams is a tax and corporate attorney in Washington, D.C. metro area. with over 41 years of law practice experience in structuring and planning for domestic and international corporate, individual, shipping, and real estate ventures and transactions, and handling complex tax controversy/process matters for domestic and foreign parties. Most recently from 1990 -- 2000, he served as the Tax Group Head of the Washington Office of Winston & Strawn, one of the top twenty law firms in the United States.. Mr. Williams has experience representing various clients in tax planning for formation, financing, and operation of corporations, partnerships, and other legal entities, including business reorganizations; tax deferred exchange transactions; tax planning for complex financing transactions such as those involving leveraged lease transactions, ship financing and ownership, health care organizations, real estate development and ownership, and Capital Construction Funds; employee benefit and executive compensation matters; qualified retirement arrangements, including IRAs, 401(k)s, SEPs, Keoghs, etc. ; bankruptcy and related substantive and procedural tax relief; and advising on the tax aspects of new financial products. He also advises on foreign and domestic, individual and corporate international tax planning, including tax aspects of immigration and emigration. He also advises on the qualification and operation of tax-exempt organizations, including trade associations.. Mr. Williams' administrative experience includes securing private letter rulings, changes in income tax regulations and other Internal Revenue Service national office positions, amendments of the Internal Revenue Code and changes in tax legislative proposals, and relief to taxpayers involved in tax controversies with the IRS and Treasury Department. His practice emphasizes the substantive tax law affecting corporations, partnerships, and individuals, and procedures relating to the IRS National Office, Treasury, and congressional legislative process.. Mr. Williams is tax counsel for corporations, tax-exempt organizations, national trade associations, utilities, ship financing parties and owners, real estate developers, national financial institutions, individuals, and numerous business entities. He also has advised associations of private Swedish businesses, including the Swedish Federation of Industries, on U.S. tax policies affecting the formulation of Swedish tax reform over the past twenty years.. Mr. Williams served as Assistant to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service from 1981 through 1984. In this capacity, he executed responsibility over national tax policy issues and technical tax law issues and administration within the purview of the IRS. He was substantively involved in virtually all of the tax policy and interpretative positions developed or taken by the IRS in the first half of the 1980s, including debt/equity issues, partnership allocation issues, foreign tax credit issues, FIRPTA, and leasing issues.. . (over). During Mr. Williams' service as Assistant to the IRS Commissioner, he worked with virtually all of the technical staff and management of the chief counsel's office, which develops and determines positions in private letter rulings and regulations for promulgation by the IRS and Treasury. Following his service at the IRS, Mr. Williams has worked with these branches and their management in resolving taxpayers' matters involving private letter rulings, published revenue rulings, and regulations.. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1968 and was awarded a J.D. from Virginia Law School in 1974, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review editorial board. He also holds an LL.M. in taxation, which he received from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1977. Following law school, Mr. Williams served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Richey, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He received the IRS Commissioner's Award in 1984, which is the Commissioner’s highest award for service.. Mr. Williams’ law practice proceeded from national law firms for most of his career, culminating in his role as the Head of the Washington Tax Practice for Winston & Strawn, one of the Nation’s 20 largest law firms, for the decade of the 1990’s. Mr. Williams now practices throughout the United States and abroad from offices in Alexandria, Virginia.. At , search for “John E. Williams” and look for his picture and more.
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Practice Areas: Tax
I am an in-house corporate tax attorney that has implemented planning projects, overseen numerous SALT audits and appeals (state income, sales and use, gross receipts, and local property tax), and provided support for IRS audits resulting in savings in excess of $50 million in tax, interest, and penalties.
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