Nationwide Tax Counsel · Planning · Compliance · Controversy
We represent business owners, entrepreneurs, families, and individuals in sophisticated tax matters — from entity structure and long-horizon planning to compliance systems, IRS and state controversy, refund claims, and defensible tax positions.
Services
Most serious tax and business matters touch planning, reporting, documentation, governance, and controversy risk at the same time. Each practice page below breaks out the scope, common matters, and how the work is typically handled.
Forward-looking strategy for business owners and high-complexity individuals: entity structure, compensation, transaction planning, multi-state nexus, and coordination across federal and state regimes. We model trade-offs before they become returns.
Compliance work as the foundation under planning and controversy, not as a commodity. Reviewed filings, late or amended returns, voluntary disclosures, information reporting, and reasonable-cause positions documented to hold up under scrutiny.
Representation in IRS and state examinations, appeals, collection matters, and U.S. Tax Court proceedings. Audit defense, penalty abatement, offers in compromise, installment agreements, innocent spouse, trust fund recovery, and criminal-adjacent matters.
Counsel for closely held companies, partnerships, and S-corps on governance, documentation, owner alignment, tax-sensitive decisions, and one-time events where the operating documents and economics need to hold together.
Ongoing outside counsel for owners and leadership teams that need coordinated tax, finance, governance, compliance, and legal judgment without building a full internal executive function.
Complex matters
Not every tax problem needs a tax attorney. The matters below typically do.
If your situation sits at the intersection of two or more of these, we should talk.
Active examinations, appeals, summons response, Tax Court petitions, and parallel federal/state proceedings.
S-corp and partnership questions where the operating agreement, the return, and the economics need to agree.
Pre-sale structuring, allocation disputes, earn-out and rollover mechanics, post-closing tax issues.
Identification, substantiation, and pursuit of refund positions through administrative and judicial channels.
Owner-operators, multi-state residents, equity compensation, and individuals with material balances owed.
Positions that depend on the interplay of statute, regulation, and sub-regulatory guidance.
Engagement
A short conversation to scope the matter, identify deadlines, and confirm we are the right counsel for the work.
We read the file: notices, returns, transcripts, agreements. You receive a written assessment of issues, exposure, and options.
A defined scope of work and fee arrangement. Most engagements are flat-fee by phase, with explicit deliverables.
Representation before the IRS, state agencies, courts, EOIR, USCIS, tribal forums, or investigative bodies as required.
Resolution documented in writing. Where useful, a forward-looking plan so the same issue does not return next cycle.
Why Matthew
Matthew McClintock is an attorney and shareholder at McClintock Tax Law. His practice focuses on tax planning, tax compliance, tax controversy, corporate governance, fractional CFO/GC services, and regulatory matters for business owners, families, and individuals with complex tax needs. He also serves as taxation attorney with Exemplar Companies PBC.
Before private practice, Matthew served as a Special Agent with the Internal Revenue Service, investigating federal tax and financial matters. Earlier, he served as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst. That combination — investigator, analyst, counsel — informs how he reads a file: what matters, what is signal, and what the other side is likely to do next.
Contact
Initial conversations are confidential and free of charge. If your matter is time-sensitive — an active notice, a deadline, a transaction in progress — flag that in your message.