Renn Neilson

Practice Areas

Practice focuses on state and local taxation, incentives and unclaimed property. He helps clients restructure their holdings, acquire and dispose of assets and structure financing transactions to minimize tax exposure. He regularly defends taxpayers in property, franchise/income and sales tax controversies.

Career

Renn has over 25 years of experience in this area; he has won several SALT cases at the Texas Supreme Court, has done planning and incentive work on many of the largest industrial projects in Texas and around the nation, and has served as lead counsel in hundreds of state and local tax lawsuits.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Bar Association, Tax Section Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, Board of Directors United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Publications

Noteworthy Sales and Use Tax Cases, Houston Tax Executives Institute, Inc., February 2020

Selection and Preparation of Expert Witnesses, Speaker, Institute for Professionals in Taxation, March 2018

Oil and Gas Workshop, Speaker, International Property Tax Institute, February 2018

Personal

J.D., Columbia Law School 1991;

Articles Editor, Columbia Business Law Review;

B.A., English, Brigham Young University 1988