John M Allan

Practice Areas

Tax

Career

JJohn Allan has assisted clients in addressing state and local taxes for more than 30 years and has handled tax matters in almost all 50 states. He also assists clients in addressing SALT (state and local tax) issues related to corporate reorganizations. John regularly represents clients before state tax agencies and the Multistate Tax Commission.

John previously served as editor-in-chief of the American Bar Association's State and Local Tax Lawyer and is former chair of the Georgia Department of Revenue's Advisory Committee and the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators (SEATA) Advisory Council. John is also a past chair of the State Bar of Georgia Tax Section where he chaired the Section's Tax Court Task Force, which was instrumental in the enactment of legislation creating Georgia's Tax Tribunal.

John speaks frequently before such groups as the Council on State Taxation, the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute (TEI), the Federation of Tax Administrators, and SEATA. Articles coauthored by John and published in The State and Local Tax Lawyer include: "Commerce Clause Implications of Locally Imposed Gross Receipts Based Taxes," Vol. 8, 2003; "Defending Against a Geoffrey Assessment: Statutory Problems Inherent in Economic and Intangible Based Nexus Theories," Vol. 3, 1998; and "The Extraterritorial Assertion of State Taxing Power: Onward to the Past," Vol. 2, 1997. John coauthored the Bloomberg Tax Portfolio No. 1420-3rd, State Tax: Limitations on States' Jurisdiction to Impose Sales and Use Taxes, and also Bloomberg Tax Portfolio No. 1740-1st, State Tax and Escheat False Claims and Consumer Class Action Litigation.