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Philip Karter specializes in tax controversy and tax litigation matters. In a career spanning more than 25 years, Mr. Karter has litigated Federal tax cases in the United States Tax Court, the United States District Courts, and the United States Court of Federal Claims and argued in the United States Court of Appeals. His range of trial experience, which includes more than two dozen jury and non-jury cases tried to judgment, encompasses a wide variety of complex and high-profile matters involving Federal income, estate and gift, and excise tax issues. Representative examples have included matters involving hostile takeover expenses, contingent liability and other tax reduction transactions, greenmail payments, transition rule tax credits, foreign tax credits, worthless stock, interest recomputations and netting, disparate treatment, timber depletion, coal excise taxes, debt-equity swaps, and other financial product issues. Mr. Karter has handled countless other tax controversy matters that were resolved with the IRS at the administrative appeals or examination level. Prior to joining Chamberlain Hrdlicka in 2007, Mr. Karter was a partner at Miller & Chevalier and formerly served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division, where he was honored with the Department's Outstanding Attorney Award. Mr. Karter is one of a select number of attorneys recognized as a national authority in tax litigation in Chambers USA and the US Legal 500 Litigation and Tax Guides. Mr. Karter has spoken on a variety of tax issues before the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, the Federal Bar Association, the New York University School of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center, the Palm Beach Tax Institute, and various state bar and professional associations. | 