Barbara T Kaplan

Practice Areas

Tax

White Collar Defense & Investigations

Tax Controversy and Litigation

State & Local Tax (SALT)

Private Wealth Services

State & Federal Tax Controversies

Equine Industry Group

Career

Barbara T. Kaplan, Chair of the New York Tax Practice, has been named one of the top 50 women lawyers in New York City by Super Lawyers magazine, and focuses her tax litigation practice on domestic and foreign corporations, partnerships, and individuals in federal, state, and local tax examinations, controversies and litigation, including administrative and grand jury criminal tax investigations.

Concentrations:

Tax compliance counseling

Offshore account reporting

Sensitive audits

Promoter audits

Preparer penalties

Civil tax controversies

Complex tax litigation

Criminal tax investigations

Voluntary disclosures

Tax penalties

Tax procedure

Bank Secrecy Act compliance

Circular 230 violations

ERISA litigation

Regulatory investigations

State and local tax

Professional Memberships

Member, Tax Sections, American and New York State Bar Associations

Member, American Association for Justice; The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; The Bar Association of the City of New York

Advisory Board Member, New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, 1989 - 1996

Executive Committee, New York State Bar Association Tax Section, January 2001 - January 2005

Personal

LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law, 1979

J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School, 1975

M.A., Northwestern University, 1972

B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1970