Dean Mead’s Tax Team provides full service tax planning and advice to businesses and individuals. Our extensive experience and expertise enables us to identify and solve the complex tax problems that are a part of today's business and personal transactions.
Business Entity Formation and Operation
We assist our business clients in selecting and establishing the best legal entity to conduct a business, including partnerships, LLCs, S corporations, and C corporations. Our Tax Team also assists our clients in all aspects of tax planning related to the operation of their businesses (whether a partnership, LLC, S corporation, or C corporation).
Mergers and Acquisitions
A large part of our tax practice involves providing tax advice to our clients in connection with the sale and purchase of businesses, including mergers and other tax-free reorganizations, stock sales, purchases and redemptions, and asset sales and purchases.
Real Estate Tax
Our Tax Team provides a broad array of tax services in connection with real estate transactions, including the structuring of tax-free exchanges (forward, reverse, and build-to-suit exchanges), planning to preserve long-term capital gains in connection with dispositions of real estate, and the structuring of joint venture arrangements for the acquisition and/or development of real properties. Team member Charlie Egerton is recognized as a national expert in the areas of like-kind exchanges and taxation of real estate development.
We have extensive experience negotiating and drafting RESPA Affiliated Business Arrangements for developers so that they may share in the income generated by the title policies and mortgage loans originating from their developments.
Tax-Exempt Organizations
Our Tax Team also represents many tax-exempt organizations. We assist these clients in selecting the initial structure of the organization, qualifying it as tax-exempt and complying with laws governing tax-exempt organizations. We also handle tax issues that surround the qualification, operations and transactions of the tax-exempt organization. In addition, we provide legal services to tax-exempt organizations that are operating in combination with taxable entities.
Tax Controversies
Our Tax Team handles federal and state tax controversies at every level. We assist clients with audits, administrative appeals, and litigation of tax issues. Our Tax Team is experienced in dealing with both the Internal Revenue Service and the Florida Department of Revenue.
Credentials
Most of our tax attorneys have Master's Degrees in taxation, many are board certified as experts in tax law by The Florida Bar, several members hold CPA certificates, and two members are Fellows of the American College of Tax Counsel. Three members of our Tax Team have been honored as the "Outstanding Tax Lawyer of the Year" by the Tax Section of The Florida Bar. Additionally, several member of our Tax Team have been named as "Outstanding Tax Attorneys" by The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Florida Trend magazine, and Orlando magazine.
Areas of Experience
Tax Structuring of Mergers and Acquisitions
Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions
Tax Planning for Individuals
Tax Planning for Partnerships, LLCs, S Corporations, and C Corporations
Tax Controversies
Taxation of Agriculture
Tax Planning for Tax-Exempt Organizations
State and Local Taxation
Tax Team Members
Tax Articles
Tax Seminar Materials
