Practice Areas

Tax, Estate Planning, and Employee Benefits


Nyemaster Goode has the largest group of tax attorneys practicing together in the state of Iowa. We seek to deliver a broad range of tax-related services, such as advising clients in trusts and estate planning and administration, ERISA and employee benefits, federal and state tax controversies and disputes, and a variety of transactional tax planning matters, including corporate reorganizations and restructurings, tax-free spin-offs, and mergers and acquisitions.
Our Practice:
We regularly provide tax planning advice to large and small businesses, individuals, and nonprofit organizations. We provide a broad range of wealth transfer planning and advisory services to individual clients, family groups, fiduciaries and charitable organizations. We handle the administration of trusts and the probate of estates, advise professional fiduciaries, and represent parties in fiduciary litigation. We handle a variety of real estate taxation matters, including disputes regarding property tax assessments and like-kind exchanges. We regularly advise clients in employee benefit matters, including designing and developing qualified retirement plans (including ESOPs), fiduciary responsibility issues related to qualified plans, planning for distributions from qualified plans, designing and implementing current, deferred and incentive compensation arrangements, cafeteria plans, and COBRA compliance.
We have an extensive tax controversy practice involving contested proceedings with the Internal Revenue Service, state and local tax authorities, and civil and criminal court proceedings. We also regularly advise clients on tax compliance matters concerning information reporting, delinquent tax payment work-outs, and competing creditor disputes with the IRS and Iowa tax authorities.
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Attorneys in this department: R. Craig Shives
Robert A. VanOrsdel
Steven J. Roy
Bruce W. Baker
Terry C. Hancock
David W. Benson
Angela L. Watson Cook
Denise M. Mendt
Angela C. Brick
Victoria A. Feilmeyer
K. Dwayne Vande Krol
Jay P. Syverson
Keri K. Farrell-Kolb

 

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