Jeffrey S. Reed is the Chair of the State and Local Tax Practice. He represents businesses and individuals in state tax controversies, and advises about the state and local tax consequences of complex transactions. He has represented clients in state tax controversy matters in over thirty state and local tax jurisdictions. He received widespread acclaim for arguing and winning the closely-watched IT USA, Inc. case before the New York Tax Appeals Tribunal.
Mr. Reed has written extensively in the area of state and local taxation and is the author of “The Reed Report,” a State Tax Notes column. He is the current Editor In Chief of the State and Local Tax Lawyer and is on the State and Local Tax Executive Committees for both the American Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association. His articles have been published in BNA Tax Management’s Multistate Tax Report, Corporate Counsel, Inside New York Taxes, Private Wealth, the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, E-Commerce Times, and Legal Times.
A regular lecturer on state and local tax matters, Mr. Reed has spoken before organizations such as BNA CITE, Bloomberg BNA, the Broadband Tax Institute, the Council on State Taxation (COST), the Tax Executives Institute (TEI), the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Lorman Educational Seminars, and New York University’s Summer Institute in State and Local Taxation.
Mr. Reed began his state and local tax career at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, where he litigated cases before the Appellate Tax Board and negotiated settlements with taxpayers. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for the state tax group of a prominent international law firm.
