Greg Turner is Special Counsel in the Tax and Estate Planning Practice Group in the Firm’s San Francisco Office, though he spends most of his time in Sacramento.

Mr. Turner brings more than twenty years of state and local tax expertise to Sheppard Mullin from both inside and outside of state government. His areas of practice cover all manner of state and local tax including corporate and personal income tax, sales and use taxes (including local allocation), property tax (including complex change in ownership structures), business license taxes, as well as other taxes and fees administered by state and local governments.

Mr. Turner represents clients in controversy matters from audit through litigation, but also has extensive experience engaging policy makers in the State Capitol, state administrative agencies, and national organizations engaged in tax policy such as the Multistate Tax Commission, the Federation of Tax Administrators, and the National Conference of State Legislators.

Mr. Turner is a sought after speaker on state and local tax matters and has a recurring column in Tax Analyst’s State Tax Notes, “Turner’s Point,” providing critical analysis on current topics in the state and local tax arena. Greg is a regular speaker at conferences across the country sponsored by the Council on State Taxation (COST), the California State Bar, Tax Executives Institute (TEI), the Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA), the Institute of Professionals in Taxation (IPT), the Western States Association of Tax Administrators (WSATA) and San Jose State University’s “High Tech Tax Institute.”

As a principal drafter of Proposition 26, he has been extensively engaged in California’s recurring struggles concerning state and local tax authority and the demands of voters for a role in that process.