NEW YORK (Sept. 3, 2025) — Kostelanetz partner Megan L. Brackney has become the new Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Tax Section for 2025-2026. Megan’s term as Chair began on Aug. 11, 2025, at the close of the ABA’s 2025 Annual meeting in Toronto, Canada, and will last
On Aug. 7, 2025, Michael Sardar will present on a panel entitled “Representing Businesses with No Records” at the IRS Tax Forum in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whether through natural disaster, computer failure, or poor record keeping, many businesses enter tax season without the business records their tax professional will need
Four Partners Also Named Leading Lawyers for High-Net-Worth Private Clients NEW YORK (July 28, 2025) — Chambers and Partners has recognized Kostelanetz LLP as a top-tier, Band 1 firm for high net worth tax clients in its 2025 High Net Worth (HNW) Guide. In addition to the firm’s selection, Megan L. Brackney, Caroline D. Ciraolo,
Caroline D. Ciraolo will speak on a panel entitled “IRS Voluntary Disclosure Practice” at the TexasBarCLE’s annual Tax Law in the Digital Age conference on Aug. 28, 2025, at 1:45 p.m. Central. Caroline and Dan Price, of the Law Offices of Daniel N. Price, will discuss the current voluntary disclosure
Kostelanetz partner Michael Sardar will speak at New York City Bar’s Tax Law Conference 2025 on Thursday, June 12, 2025. Michael will deliver a presentation titled “Circular 230 Discussion: What should tax professionals do when they discover an error on a client’s prior tax return” from 4:00 pm to 4:50
Businesses that employ individuals who are not authorized to work (unauthorized individuals) in the United States are the subject of increasing scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Department of Labor (DOL), and other federal and state government agencies. Recently, the IRS and the Department
You could easily be forgiven for not knowing the current state of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) following the Fifth Circuit’s holiday flip-flop…or the Supreme Court subsequently weighing in…or Congress’s umpteenth attempt to push off the law’s effective date…or the recent flurry of FinCEN press releases. But the most important
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 3, 2025) — Kostelanetz LLP is pleased to welcome Melissa Wiley as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office focused on civil tax controversy matters for business and high-net-worth clients. Melissa brings more than two decades of civil tax controversy and litigation experience to Kostelanetz, augmenting the
Kostelanetz partner Caroline Ciraolo is co-chair of the 2025 D.C. Bar Tax Conference and is speaking along with several other Kostelanetz attorneys, demonstrating the firm’s experience in federal tax controversy, partnership taxation, and constitutional and administrative law. Kostelanetz is a Gold+ sponsor of the 2025 D.C. Bar Tax Conference, which
