I’ve been a lawyer for 32 years, and I’ve spent nearly all of them doing one thing: solving IRS problems for people and businesses around Tampa Bay — including more than 25 years of clients from St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and across Pinellas County. My office is in Tampa, twenty minutes over the bridge, and Pinellas federal tax matters land in the same Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division courthouse where I practice.
Before tax law, I was a public defender. That work teaches you two things that never leave: how to fight for someone the government is coming after, and how to give people straight answers when they’re scared. Both translate directly to IRS work.
The Record
Over the years my office has resolved more than $100 million in IRS tax debt through offers in compromise, installment agreements, penalty abatement, currently not collectible status, collection due process hearings, trust fund recovery penalty defense, and bankruptcy discharge. I hold an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and I’m a member of the American Society of Tax Problem Solvers. I’m licensed in Florida, Colorado, and Texas, and admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court.
Why Local Matters in Pinellas
IRS problems are federal, but they get resolved locally. I know the Florida laws — homestead, tenancy by the entireties, retirement protections — that give Pinellas County taxpayers real leverage most national tax-relief outfits never use, because they don’t know they exist. The tourist-economy businesses, the waterfront real estate, the retirees on protected income — Pinellas cases have a local texture, and it changes the strategy.
When you call, you’re not getting a salesperson or a case manager. You’re getting a Florida lawyer who has done this work in this county for over 25 years.