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Bob is a member of the firm�s Business Services Practice Group. His practice emphasizes the resolution of federal, state and local tax controversies including income, employment, franchise, estate, gift and excise taxes, real and personal property taxes, and sales and use taxes.
In more than 30 years of practicing tax law, Bob has represented health care organizations regarding almost every income tax, employment tax, property tax and sales and use tax issue, including: IRS Coordinated Examination Program (CEP) audits; property tax cases involving the property tax welfare exemption; as a participant with the Attorney General�s Health Care Task Force that investigated charity care minimums; as a registered lobbyist; in sales and use tax audits; in seeking Attorney General consent for transfers of hospitals; in addressing nonprofit income tax issues including unrelated business taxable income (UBTI); excess benefit transactions (intermediate sanctions), executive compensation, private inurement, private benefit and debt financed property.
He is a frequent speaker on taxation for the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and Sacramento County Bar Association. Bob is also McDonough�s Internal Revenue Service Circular 230 coordinator. | 