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Provided by Sean Akins
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Sean Akins litigates complex federal and state tax matters on behalf of some of the most prominent companies, organizations, and high net worth individuals in the world. He has extensive experience trying cases before the U.S. Tax Court, the Court of Federal Claims, U.S. District and Appellate Courts, and state courts. In addition to litigating tax matters, Mr. Akins advises clients with respect to administrative tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities, as well as with respect to Congressional tax investigations and hearings. He is the author of Litigation of Federal Civil Tax Controversies, the leading multi-volume treatise on the litigation of tax cases in the United States, in addition to numerous other articles and publications.
Publications
Most prominently, Mr. Akins is co-author of Kafka, Cavanagh, & Akins, Litigation of Federal Civil Tax Controversies, 2d ed., the leading two-volume treatise on the litigation of tax cases in the United States, and co-author of Chapter 7 of Effectively Representing Your Taxpayer before the IRS, Tax Court Litigation.
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