John M Allan

Career

For over 30 years, John Allan has represented clients in state tax controversies across the country in almost all 50 states. John has served as: editor-in-chief of the American Bar Association's State and Local Tax Lawyer; a former chair of the Tax Section of the Georgia Bar, the Georgia Department of Revenue's Advisory Committee, and the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators (SEATA) Advisory Council. John also chaired the Georgia Bar Tax Section's Tax Court Task Force, which was instrumental in the enactment of legislation creating Georgia's Tax Tribunal. He is an author of the Bloomberg Tax Portfolio No. 1420-3rd, State Tax: Limitations on States' Jurisdiction to Impose Sales and Use Taxes, which received Bloomberg Tax’s 2019 award for “Publication of the Year – Indirect Tax.” John served as counsel to the petitioners in the successful appeal to the United States Supreme Court in the landmark tax decision Dawson v. Steager (2019) and in 2017, John was one of 319 lawyers named as BTI Client Service All-Stars.