Tax Services

Tax Services

Are you getting the highest level of service from your tax professional? Is your accounting firm keeping you informed about regulatory changes and updates impacting you, your family, or your business? Are you getting valuable feedback and advantageous tax planning ideas?

Our highly credentialed professionals in the Tax Services Group at LaPorte, a Mauldin & Jenkins Company, understand the complexities and unique compliance issues that our clients face. We stress staff education, including CPE and regular attendance at national industry-specific tax conferences.

Tax Services Highlights

• One of the largest regional tax practices in Louisiana and Texas, with over 60 professionals
• Professionals who include certified public accountants, chartered global management accountants, masters of laws in taxation, certified specialists in estate planning, and masters in business administration
• A practice that functions as a unified whole: clients have access to full resources of the firm through each office

Service Approach Profile

The LaPorte three-pronged tax approach focuses on:

• Gaining a thorough understanding of our clients’ businesses, how they work, issues that concern them, and how they want to be served
• Meeting our clients’ expectations by continually measuring our evolving understanding of their needs through regular communication with our clients
• Performing client service assessments to learn our strengths and how we can raise the bar on services

Our professionals focus on timely and responsive service, returning phone calls and emails quickly, meeting regulatory deadlines, and staying in touch with our clients year-round. They work hard to help clients structure business operations and transactions in a tax-advantageous way and to define the right overall tax position for achieving savings and meeting business goals.

Tax Services Client Base

Our tax professionals serve clients in a broad range of industries, a sampling of which includes:

•  Construction
•  Energy
•  Financial services
•  Healthcare
•  Hospitality and entertainment
•  Manufacturing and distribution
•  Nonprofit
•  Professional services
•  Real estate
•  Wholesale and retail

Services

Our services to tax clients cover a broad range, including:

•  Business succession
•  Business valuation
•  Cost segregation studies
•  Estate tax planning
•  Federal, state, and local taxing authority representation
•  Historic rehabilitation tax credits
•  International tax planning
•  Multi-state tax planning
•  Sales and use tax
•  State tax incentives planning and compliance assistance
•  Tax consulting
  • Business acquisitions and dispositions
  • Structuring of business transactions
  • Tax accounting methods
• Tax return preparation for individuals, businesses,
  and nonprofits

For more information about the Tax Services Group at Mauldin & Jenkins, visit https://www.mjcpa.com/services/tax.