Robinson+Cole was one of the earliest law firms to advise clients on state and local taxation law, with an established practice dating back to the early 1980s, representing clients across the country, including individual taxpayers and all types of businesses.

Our team provides strategic advice and service to our clients, through the challenges and incentives of state and local taxes. We provide strategic guidance in the boardroom, the courtroom, and beyond to help you make the most of your business’ financial resources.

Our Services

We handle state and local tax audits, administrative appeals, and tax appeals to the courts. Our lawyers represent all types of business and individual taxpayers in matters involving state franchise, income, sales and use, property, and a wide variety of special industry taxes, including:

• Advising clients regarding state tax compliance and business structuring
• Assisting businesses in securing existing tax and financial incentives
• Conducting tax litigation
• Designing for our clients favorable tax legislation, including tax incentives
• Representing businesses before state taxing authorities

We also negotiate tax incentives for companies considering location or expansion of activities in a state. Our services include negotiating administrative rulings involving application of the tax laws to a company moving to the state, drafting and enacting favorable tax legislation targeted to specific companies or industries, assisting in the structuring of the sale of state tax credits, and negotiating tax and other financial incentives with state agencies charged with an economic development mission.

Our Team

We are recognized leaders in the field. We have secured numerous rulings and other administrative guidance for taxpayers on uncertain tax issues and have worked to shape tax regulations and other guidance for the benefit of our clients’ interests. In Connecticut, we have successfully resolved hundreds of state and local tax disputes at the administrative agency level, in court-supervised mediation, in trials of cases, and in appeals to the Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts.

We author annual publications for the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Connecticut Bar Journal, regularly publishing in nationally distributed state tax publications. Our lawyers are sought after as speakers by numerous organizations, including Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) societies, the Council on State Taxation (COST), and state business leagues. We also chair subcommittees of the ABA Tax Section's State and Local Taxes (SALT) Committee. Our practice group includes past chairs of the Connecticut Bar Association's Tax Section, and a member of our team served for more than seven years as the legal division director of the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services.