Barbara T Kaplan

Practice Areas

Tax

White Collar Defense & Special Investigations

Audits, Litigation & Criminal Tax Defense

State & Local Tax (SALT)

Private Wealth Services

State & Federal Tax Controversies

Equine Industry Group

Career

Barbara T. Kaplan is Co-Chair of the Global Tax Practice and 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.

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2010-2022.

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.