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One discipline, start to finish.

Many tax practices focus primarily on either planning or disputes. Galek Tax Law treats them as connected phases of the same problem: structures are designed with their defensibility in mind, and disputes are analyzed through the transaction, documentation, and tax decisions that produced them.

Tax counsel for consequential decisions and disputes.

Galek Tax Law represents individuals and businesses in federal and California tax matters, from pre-transaction planning through audit, administrative appeal, and litigation in the U.S. Tax Court. Core work centers on business and transactional tax planning, federal and California disputes, and cross-border U.S. tax. Related employment, property, estate, and reporting matters are handled when they bear directly on those engagements.

That work includes

  • Representing clients in disputes with the IRS, the California Franchise Tax Board, and other state taxing authorities.
  • Advising emerging-company, venture capital, and corporate clients on federal and California tax issues arising in their transactions and structures.
  • Structuring complex business transactions, including entity formation, corporate tax planning, and the sale of a business.
  • Advising on corporate and partnership taxation, including S corporation structures and partnership arrangements.
  • Planning equity compensation, QSBS eligibility, fund structuring, cross-border operations, transfer pricing, and tax-efficient liquidity events.
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Practice Focus

Business, Founder, and Transactional Tax Planning

Tax counsel for business formation, founder equity, investments, transactions, real estate, and liquidity decisions.

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Tax Controversy and Litigation

Sophisticated advocacy in audits, appeals, tax-related court proceedings, and high-stakes disputes involving federal, California, and other state taxing authorities.

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International and Cross-Border U.S. Tax

Legal advice and representation on cross-border U.S. tax structures, reporting analysis, treaty questions, and disputes.

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Office and service area

Based in Historic Folsom. Serving clients throughout California.

Galek Tax Law represents individuals, founders, business owners, and investors in consequential federal and California tax matters.

Galek Tax Law's office building in Historic Folsom.

Secondary practice support

Selected Related Matters

These matters are handled when they are connected to the practice's primary planning, controversy, and cross-border work.

Employment and payroll tax

Related employment-tax questions that arise in planning or controversy matters.

  • Worker classification and employment-tax controversyTax counsel on worker classification, settlement structure, and trust-fund recovery issues connected to a planning or controversy engagement.

Real estate, property, and estate tax

Related tax work where ownership, transfers, or valuation shape the tax result.

  • Real Estate Tax Planning and ControversyTax counsel for acquisitions, dispositions, like-kind exchanges, entity ownership, and real estate-related disputes.
  • California property tax and assessment mattersAddressing California property-tax and assessment issues connected to a broader transaction or controversy engagement.
  • Estate and gift-tax issuesAdvising on estate and gift-tax questions that arise in business or investment planning.

Related compliance and reporting

Compliance and reporting work connected to a broader planning or controversy engagement.

  • Entity and information reportingAdvising on reporting positions, entity elections, and documentation that support the underlying tax strategy.
  • International reporting analysisLegal analysis of foreign income and asset reporting obligations and treaty positions in cross-border matters with U.S. tax exposure.