Tax
May 20, 2017
Can you get tax advice on contingency?
Contingency-fee based tax advice and representation, while becoming more common, are the exception, not the norm.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601
Phone: (415) 834-0113
Fax: (415) 789-4540
Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
Contingent legal fees are the norm in personal injury cases. Increasingly, they are the norm in employment lawsuits too. Indeed, the types of cases in which contingent fees are common is expanding widely. These days, even large law firms handle some cases on contingency.
So, can you charge contingent fees in tax matters? It should not be surprising that clients ask for this. Why wouldn't a client want legal or accounting fees tied directly to the tax result we can obtain for...
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