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Business Tax Services

Why choose LGA for your business tax services? Driven by a strong desire to help, our tax advisors are committed to staying current and alert to the ever-changing tax landscape so they can provide proactive advice that helps you meet new challenges. Our team implements tax-efficient strategies resulting from comprehensive tax planning.

Tax Services for Owner Managed Businesses

Closely-held and family owned businesses are the heart of many families’ wealth in America.  Effective tax planning comes in many shapes and sizes, ranging from helping a business owner choose the proper entity tax structure to maximize tax efficiency given the business owners goals and objectives, to taking advantage of regulations that provide for accelerated deductions and income deferral that allow the business owner to pour their profits back into the growth of the business, to structuring a sale of the business to maximize the owner’s after-tax take through the maximization of capital gains and minimization of ordinary income.  LGA’s tax advisors guide our clients from formation through a liquidity event – we think of ourselves as an integral part of your team!

State Tax Nexus Issues

As states strive to generate more income from cross-border business activity, established laws and regulations regarding nexus and conducting business in a multi-state environment have undergone significant changes and continue to do so. LGA can help your company understand how your operations or remote or hybrid workforce impact what states you are deemed to be “doing business in” and the related impact this has on which states you are taxable in. LGA is ready to help with planning and compliance in multi-state operations to ensure ongoing compliance in this ever-evolving borderless business climate.

Sophisticated Tax Services

Real Estate Investment

LGA has extensive experience assisting real estate investors with multi-tier structures involving waterfall distributions, carried or promote interests and foreign investor interests owned by LLC’s, partnerships, individuals and corporate entities. We can also assist with book to tax reporting differences related to fair value accounting differences between GAAP and tax. LGA timely communicates tax law changes, such as the new partnership audit rules, to ensure partnership agreements are amended and required disclosures are made on the tax returns properly to avoid penalties and achieve the desired result in the case of an audit. When the time comes to sell, we provide value-add services including confirming the gains and losses are being properly distributed to the investors and the tax impact is minimized.

Investment Entities

LGA works with complex investment partnerships, ranging from entities with one investment to hundreds of investments. Whether your entity invests in brokerage accounts or is an active or passive investor in other real estate or operating entities, our team has your compliance needs covered. From straight forward allocations to special allocations at the specific investment and related state filings, regardless of how many states, our team has done it all and has established systems to ensure an efficient and accurate reporting process for you and your investors. In addition, we work with our clients to ensure that the partnership agreement provisions are understood and are being adhered to and properly reported to avoid potential investor disputes down the road.

Start-Up Companies

Opening a new business presents many obstacles, but tax compliance shouldn’t be one of them. The initial decisions to be made in the first year can be overwhelming – from entity type, methods of accounting, including depreciation policies, tax elections and more, we will spend the time to understand your short and long-term strategic objectives to ensure that we get it right out of the gate. As you grow and have more financial stability, we can guide you to take advantage of other tax advantaged opportunities, ranging from employee benefit retirement strategies, to research and development and other tax credits. As your business takes you into new states or even across the pond internationally, we have the experience to assist you with evaluating your related filing obligations and keeping you compliant with state and federal requirements.

Established Businesses

Transitioning from your prior firm to LGA enables us to take a fresh look at how you are accounting for and reporting your results for income tax purposes, often leading to tax savings opportunities and the strengthening of compliance with federal and state requirements. We have the depth and breadth to take a holistic approach to evaluating tax compliance, and leverage specialized knowledge from various firm leaders to ensure that you are getting the best information and advice available. Our 40 years of experience means that we have worked with and advised clients through almost every tax situation and opportunity and will bring this collective knowledge to you to maximize your businesses’ tax efficiency and compliance.

IRS and State Representation

Please exercise caution when communicating with someone claiming to be from the IRS or state agencies as there is a considerable amount of fraud in this area.  If you need help with a legitimate IRS or state tax notice or audit, LGA can help.  Our tax professionals have decades of experience working with these regulatory agencies to resolve notices and audits stemming from a variety of causes, whether due to taxpayer oversight or neglect, or improper assessments due to the lack of substantiation or explanation.  We can file amended tax returns as necessary and even assist non-filers become current through the filing of prior year tax returns. Let our team represent you and communicate with the IRS or state agency on your behalf.

Why Choose LGA?

Tax Minimization

Whether it's recommending cost segregation studies, research and development credit analyses, accelerated depreciation strategies, qualified retirement plans or income deferral and expense acceleration, we don’t believe that taxes “are what they are”.

Deep Bench

Our bench goes deep, and we have the experience to service a wide range of compliance needs from formation through liquidation and all that comes in between.

Team

Collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, it’s how we work to ensure our clients get the best tax advice from across our team, not from a siloed partner.

Culture

Our people feel accepted, have the opportunity to learn from meaningful work, and can enrich their relationships with team members and clients through attentive communication, which leads to a strong desire to help and a willingness to do the work.

International Tax

LGA’s clients are headquartered, operate, employ teams, and sell products or services around the globe. To learn more about our international tax and business support services, see our International Tax page.
International Tax Services

Business Tax Resources

Business Tax Team Leaders

Scott Sagan

Scott focuses on providing business tax and business advisory services to a diverse client base including owner-managed companies in the areas of real estate and construction, professional services firms, and manufacturers. Scott takes great pride in helping guide his clients through every phase of the business lifecycle from startup to sale or succession.
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Wayne Karacek

Wayne’s clients include non-profit and for-profit entities with a concentration real estate and construction. Wayne works extensively with closely held companies and their owners providing tax planning and preparation, and when called on, can represent clients before federal and state taxing authorities.

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