Ms. Atkinson focuses her practice on federal, state, local and international taxation matters with emphasis on tax controversy, employment tax issues and tax-exempt organizations. She also practices entertainment law with a focus on tax issues.
Ms. Atkinson has extensive experience in tax planning and tax litigation. She handles administrative and judicial controversies, which have included favorable resolution of numerous audits, appeals and collections matters. She has testified before Congress and has spoken to numerous groups including CPAs, attorneys, enrolled agents and judges on a wide variety of issues such as offers in compromise, entity formation, sales and use tax, IRS and state collection issues, and 1031 exchanges. Ms. Atkinson has handled cases involving bookkeeper embezzlement and the legal consequences.
In the tax-exempt arena, Ms. Atkinson counsels numerous entities on organizational and operational issues including political, educational and healthcare entities and has successfully resolved tax controversies involving tax exemption qualification.