Randy has helped taxpayers improve their bottom line for nearly 25 years. Focusing his practice on state and local tax, he represents taxpayers across the U.S. in tax planning, compliance, audits, and appeals.
Randy is experienced in multistate tax appeals, representing taxpayers at both the administrative and judicial levels. His substantive experience in commercial litigation adds value to his state and local tax controversy work. Randy has obtained substantial relief for taxpayers at the audit, administrative, and judicial levels in the areas of corporate income tax, sales and use tax, gross receipts tax, property tax, business privilege tax, utility tax, personal income tax, and various other taxes.
In addition, Randy provides compliance, tax planning, and audit advice to businesses of all sizes. Randy helps clients lessen their state and local tax burden through effective planning and, if necessary, litigation. He has advised clients in many industries, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, software development, entertainment, hospitality, big box retail, and automotive, among others.
Randy's experience also includes providing valuable multistate state and local tax review and due diligence support for transactions. This careful review and planning during the negotiation stage of deals is essential to avoid negative state and local tax impacts.
Recently, Randy spent two years as a senior deputy attorney general in the Tax Litigation Section of the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.
Randy is a frequent speaker and author on state and local tax topics. He has presented at conferences sponsored by the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, the Council on State Taxation, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the Tax Executives Institute, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Assessors Association of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Mayors' Association, the Maryland Association of CPAs, among others.
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.
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