Tax Attorney in New York City, NY

Federal tax representation for New York City taxpayers

Victory Tax Lawyers, LLP is a California-Bar-admitted tax-resolution law firm based in Los Angeles. Our federal practice runs nationwide: the Internal Revenue Service accepts our Form 2848 Power of Attorney in every state, and the U.S. Tax Court — a single federal tribunal with jurisdiction over IRS deficiency cases — holds regular trial sessions in New York at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse and the Foley Square Federal Building at 290 Broadway. New York is one of the highest-volume U.S. Tax Court trial cities in the country, drawing petitioners from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, Westchester, and the lower Hudson Valley. From our Robertson Boulevard office in Los Angeles, we represent New York City residents and entities domiciled across the five boroughs in IRS audits, collection cases, Tax Court petitions, Offers in Compromise under IRC § 7122, Installment Agreements under IRC § 6159, lien discharges under IRC § 6325, levy releases under IRC § 6343, and Trust Fund Recovery Penalty defenses under IRC § 6672.

For New York State tax matters — the graduated 4% to 10.9% personal income tax under NY Tax Law § 601, the 6.5% (top 7.25%) corporate franchise tax under NY Tax Law § 210, the New York State estate tax with its $7.16 million 2026-indexed exemption under NY Tax Law § 952, the 4% state sales tax under NY Tax Law § 1105, the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax, and contested matters headed to the New York State Division of Tax Appeals or the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal — we file Form POA-1 with the Department of Taxation and Finance and handle the administrative track directly. For New York City tax matters — the NYC personal income tax under Admin Code § 11-1701, the NYC Unincorporated Business Tax at 4% under Admin Code § 11-503, the NYC General Corporation Tax, the Commercial Rent Tax for Manhattan tenants south of 96th Street, and the NYC Real Property Transfer Tax — we file a NYC Department of Finance Power of Attorney and engage with the city's audit and collections divisions directly. For formal litigation before the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal (the independent state-tax tribunal seated at Agency Building 1, 6th Floor, in Albany under NY Tax Law § 170 et seq.) or in the New York Supreme Court Tax Term, we refer to locally admitted New York counsel under a co-counsel arrangement. The federal layer is where most New York City Wall Street, Big Law partner, and equity-compensation cases live, and that is where our engagement carries the load.

New York City sits at the center of the most concentrated high-income economy in the country. Wall Street and the Financial District hold the densest cluster of investment banks, asset managers, private-equity firms, and hedge funds in the world: JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Lazard, Evercore, Centerview, Moelis, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Carlyle, Pershing Square, Citadel, D.E. Shaw, Two Sigma, Renaissance Technologies, and Brookfield Asset Management. Add the Manhattan Big Law corridor — Wachtell, Cravath, Skadden, Sullivan & Cromwell, Davis Polk, Cleary Gottlieb, Simpson Thacher, Latham, Paul Weiss, Kirkland, Quinn Emanuel, Weil, Debevoise, Proskauer, Milbank, Cadwalader, and Shearman & Sterling — alongside the Big Four (Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG), the Hudson Yards and Chelsea tech offices of Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Spotify, Squarespace, and Etsy, the media and publishing concentration around Times Square and Midtown (NYT, WSJ News Corp, Bloomberg LP, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Time, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker), the Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYU Langone, Northwell, Montefiore, HSS, and Columbia University Irving Medical Center hospital systems, Columbia, NYU, Fordham, Cornell Tech, The New School, and the CUNY network, the United Nations diplomatic community, the Diamond District at 47th Street, the Garment District, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Queens industrial corridor, plus the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Rangers, Nets, Islanders, Giants, Jets, and NYCFC payrolls — and you have a tax-resolution footprint that is essentially RSU and ISO underwithholding, § 83(b) elections, § 1061 three-year carried-interest holding periods for private-equity and hedge-fund partners, § 199A SSTB exclusions blocking QBI for Big Law and Big Four partners, § 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock claims, § 1503 dual-consolidated-loss issues, FBAR work on Israeli, Iranian-Jewish, Russian-Jewish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, Italian, Irish, and Polish family accounts, § 871 and § 1441 nonresident-alien withholding for UN diplomats and treaty-residents, and § 631 NYS sourcing for residents who relocated to Florida or Texas but still earn New York income. The federal procedures are uniform; the facts are New York-specific.

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Victory Tax Lawyers is California-Bar-admitted, not New York-Bar-admitted. That distinction matters — and it does not block our work. The U.S. Tax Court is a federal court with nationwide jurisdiction; an attorney admitted to that court may petition and try cases at any of its trial locations, including New York at the Foley Square Federal Building, 290 Broadway. IRS administrative practice runs on Form 2848 Power of Attorney, accepted from any attorney in good standing with any state bar plus an active Centralized Authorization File number. Most of our New York City clients never need a separately admitted New York attorney because the case is, at its core, federal.

For administrative work before the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance — protests, audit responses, Offer in Compromise submissions under NY Tax Law § 171.fifteenth, and installment-agreement requests — we file Form POA-1 and handle the matter remotely. For NYC Department of Finance matters — UBT audits under NYC Admin Code § 11-503, General Corporation Tax assessments, Commercial Rent Tax exposure for Manhattan tenants south of 96th Street, NYC personal income tax disputes, and NYC Real Property Transfer Tax claims — we file a NYC Department of Finance Power of Attorney and engage with the city's audit and collections divisions directly. When a case must move to the New York State Division of Tax Appeals or the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal (the independent state-tax tribunal seated at Agency Building 1, 6th Floor, in Albany under NY Tax Law § 170 et seq.) or appeal further to the Appellate Division, Third Department, we coordinate with locally admitted New York counsel under a co-counsel arrangement. The federal portion of the engagement, which is usually the larger exposure given New York's 10.9% top state rate plus 3.876% NYC rate stacked on a 37% federal top, stays with us.

What distinguishes our firm: a California-Bar-admitted managing attorney with active U.S. Tax Court admission, an Enrolled Agent on staff for IRS administrative work, a 5.0 / 72-review Google rating, and $91M+ in cumulative tax relief secured across 2,000+ resolved matters. No marketing claim of being a New York-licensed firm — we are not. A factually accurate offer of federal tax representation, available to any New York City taxpayer, at the same standard we apply to a Los Angeles client. Our 100% remote workflow runs through a secure document portal — you never have to travel to Robertson Boulevard.

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