The team at Kostelanetz LLP regularly participates in media interviews, posts client alerts, speaks at events nationally and locally, and hosts educational events for professionals virtually and at the firm’s offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Feel free to check our site frequently for news and upcoming events that professionals at the firm will be participating in and/or hosting.
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Garrett L. Brodeur Participates In A Panel Entitled “Basic and Advanced Issues Regarding IRS Liens and Levies, and Hot Topics in Tax Collections” At The ABA 2023 Midyear Tax Meeting
February 9 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PST Garrett L. Brodeur Moderates A Panel Entitled “Emerging Issues in Crypto and Blockchain Practice” At The ABA 2023 Midyear Tax Meeting
February 10 @ 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm PST Jay R. Nanavati Participates In A Panel On IRS Criminal Investigation Case Sources At The ABA 2023 Midyear Tax Meeting
February 11 @ 9:00 am - 9:50 am PST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Tax Litigation Update Including Recent Decisions and Their Impact on Corporate and Individual Taxpayers” At The D.C. Bar’s Annual Tax Legislative And Regulatory Update Conference
January 26 @ 10:30 am - 11:45 am EST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Tax Litigation Update” At The 12th Annual London Finance And Capital Markets Conference
January 17 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm GMT Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Targeting the Tax Professional: A Review of the Increased Civil and Criminal Tax Enforcement Against Attorneys, Accountants, and other Financial Advisors” At The 41st Annual Florida Bar/FICPA International Tax Conference
January 13 @ 11:20 am - 12:10 pm PST Bryan C. Skarlatos Presents On “Tax Basics for Matrimonial Judges” At The New York State Judicial Institute New Judges Seminar
January 11 @ 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm EST Heather Fincher Participates In A Webinar Titled “U.S. GILTI Anti-Deferral Rules and Tax Compliance: Reporting Issues, Navigating Forms 5471, 8992, 8993, and 1118” For Strafford’s CLE/CPE Program
January 11 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST Megan L. Brackney Participates In A Webinar Titled “Tax Teaching and Adjunct Opportunities” For The American Bar Association
January 10 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST Bryan C. Skarlatos Participates In A Panel Titled “What Every Tax Litigator Needs to Know About the Appeal of Their Civil or Criminal Case” At The 39th Annual National Institute On Criminal Tax Fraud And The 12th Annual National Institute On Tax Controversy
December 14, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “How to Be an Ally to Your Diverse Colleagues in Tax Practice” At The 39th Annual National Institute On Criminal Tax Fraud And The 12th Annual National Institute On Tax Controversy
December 13, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST Caroline D. Ciraolo Moderates A Panel Titled “The Use of Mail and Wire Fraud Charges in Tax Cases and its Consequences” At The 39th Annual National Institute On Criminal Tax Fraud And The 12th Annual National Institute On Tax Controversy
December 13, 2022 @ 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm PST Michael Sardar and Don Fort Participate In A Panel Titled “Criminal Tax Workshop” At The 39th Annual National Institute On Criminal Tax Fraud And The 12th Annual National Institute On Tax Controversy
December 12, 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm PST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Balancing Tax Planning, Advocacy, and Professional Ethics: The Rules That Every Tax Advisor Should Know” At The Tax Strategies 2022 Conference
December 9, 2022 @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm PST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Tax Controversy” At The IFA USA 3rd Annual Winter Conference
November 30, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:20 pm EST Bryan C. Skarlatos Presents On “Tax Ethics: Best Practices for Ensuring Compliance With Circular 230” At A Strafford Live Webinar
November 22, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm EST Megan L. Brackney Participates In A Tax Litigation And Controversy Panel At The WSTA-WSTEC 2022 Fall Tax Conference
November 22, 2022 @ 11:30 am - 12:45 pm EST Caroline D. Ciraolo Moderates A Panel Titled “From the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Handling Audits Under the New Centralized Partnership Audit Regime” At The 2022 IRS Representation Conference
November 18, 2022 @ 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm EST Megan L. Brackney Participates In A PLI Panel Entitled “Balancing Tax Planning, Advocacy, and Professional Ethics: The Rules That Every Tax Advisor Should Know”
November 18, 2022 @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CST Bryan C. Skarlatos Participates In A Panel Entitled “When Are You Crossing A Line? Real Life Ethical Issues In Everyday Tax Practice” At The 81st Institute On Federal Taxation
November 17, 2022 @ 8:15 pm - 9:55 pm EST Caroline D. Ciraolo Presents “Ethics: When Aggressive Tax Planning and Controversy Defense Become Criminal Conduct” At The 71st Tulane Tax Institute
November 17, 2022 @ 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm EST Garrett L. Brodeur Speaks About Current Supreme Court Case, Bittner v. United States, At The ABA Tax Section Administrative Practice Committee November Meeting
November 17, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST Bryan C. Skarlatos Participates In A Panel Discussion Entitled “Criminal Tax Enforcement” At The UCLA Extension 38th Annual Tax Controversy Institute
November 14, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 7:50 pm EST Caroline D. Ciraolo and Don Fort Participate In A Panel Titled “When Aggressive Tax Planning Becomes Criminal Conduct” At The 59th Annual Hawaii Tax Institute
November 10, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm HST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Foreign Trusts and Gifts – Reporting Obligations, Compliance Issues, and Challenging Those Egregious Penalties!” At The 59th Annual Hawaii Tax Institute
November 8, 2022 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm HST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Using the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service to Help Taxpayers Across the Country” At The 59th Annual Hawaii Tax Institute
November 7, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm HST Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Entitled “Tax Treaties For The Estate Planner” At The California Lawyers Association Taxation Section’s 2022 Annual Meeting Of The Tax Bar And Tax Policy Conference
November 4, 2022 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm PDT Three K&F Attorneys Participate In Ethics Panels At The “Tax Strategies 2022” Conference
October 28, 2022Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Titled “Current Tax Disputes Trends at a Domestic and Cross Border Level” At The October IFA UK Branch Meeting
October 27, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm BST Megan L. Brackney Participates In A Panel Entitled “When Are You Crossing A Line? Real Life Ethical Issues In Everyday Tax Practice” At The 81st Institute On Federal Taxation
October 27, 2022 @ 5:15 pm - 6:55 pm EDT Garrett L. Brodeur Participates In A Panel Entitled “Exploring Tax Practice Settings With Alumni” For Students Of The Georgetown Law Center Tax LL.M. Program
October 25, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Caroline D. Ciraolo Participates In A Panel Entitled “From The Experts: Tax Controversy And Tax Litigation – Civil & Criminal Tax Update” At The 81st Institute On Federal Taxation
October 23, 2022 @ 1:15 pm - 3:45 pm EDT Caroline D. Ciraolo Joins A Panel Titled “International Tax & Trade Investigations And Voluntary Disclosures” At The 2022 Freeman Law International Tax Symposium
October 20, 2022 @ 10:40 am - 11:30 pm EDT