Someone typing on a calculator and writing.

Tax Law

Overview

Foster Swift’s tax attorneys deliver timely and efficient solutions for all of our clients' tax needs, including tax planning and litigation. Our team specializes in providing services to a variety of clients, ranging from individuals and small businesses to publicly traded companies and municipalities. 

Our tax attorneys achieve cost-effective results by proactively crafting tax planning strategies, appealing and litigating contested issues, and negotiating with tax authorities to resolve disputes when strategically practical.  We regularly guide clients through the IRS and Michigan Department of Treasury's informal appeals processes and aggressively defend our clients' interests before the federal courts, the Michigan Tax Tribunal and the Court of Claims. 

Foster Swift has been named a Tier 1 firm in Tax Law in Lansing and Grand Rapids by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

We also regularly advise our clients on myriad tax issues relevant to their businesses, personal finances and tax exempt organizations, including:

Areas of expertise:

  • Federal, state and international tax and business planning for start-up and growing businesses
  • Tax efficient structuring of mergers , acquisitions, and other transactions
  • Sales & Use Tax appeals before the Michigan Department of Treasury, Michigan Tax Tribunal and Court of Claims
  • Guiding clients through the Michigan Treasury's informal appeals process
  • Litigating tax matters before the Michigan Tax Tribunal, Court of Claims, and Michigan Appellate Courts 
  • Business tax appeals (including the Michigan Business Tax (MBT) and the Single Business Tax (SBT))

Attorneys & Paralegals

News & Resources

News

Publications

Blog Posts

Related Industries

Jump to Page

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC Cookie Preference Center

Your Privacy

When you visit our website, we use cookies on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences, or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to and to provide a more personalized web experience. For more information about how we use Cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Always Active

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies may only be disabled by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Functional Cookies

Always Active

Some functions of the site require remembering user choices, for example your cookie preference, or keyword search highlighting. These do not store any personal information.

Form Submissions

Always Active

When submitting your data, for example on a contact form or event registration, a cookie might be used to monitor the state of your submission across pages.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage. We access and process information from these cookies at an aggregate level.

Powered by Firmseek