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G. Michelle Ferreira

+1 415 655 1305 ferreiram@gtlaw.com View profile View profile

Work Department

Tax

Position

Co-Managing Shareholder

Career

G. Michelle Ferreira is Co-Managing Shareholder of the San Francisco Office and Co-Managing Shareholder of the Silicon Valley Office and counsels individuals, partnerships, estates and corporations in tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and state and local tax agencies, including the California Franchise Tax Board, the State Board of Equalization, the Employment Development Department and county assessment appeals boards.

As a former tax litigator for the Internal Revenue Service, Michelle brings unique experience to clients who have complex and sensitive tax and penalty disputes. Michelle represents clients before the IRS, and state and local tax agencies at the audit, collection, appeals and litigation stages.

Michelle has 18 reported decisions in the U.S. Tax Court on issues such as unreported income, family limited partnerships, civil and criminal tax fraud, penalty assessments, statutes of limitation assertions, valuation disputes, controversies involving valuation discounts for lack of control and lack of marketability, tax shelters, hobby losses, complex real estate transactions, tax structured transactions, and unsubstantiated business expenses.

Concentrations
Tax compliance advice
Civil tax disputes, including audits, appeals and collection matters
Offshore income tax disputes, foreign income, bank and asset reporting and related penalty assessments
Complex tax litigation
Criminal tax investigations and litigation
Tax penalties
Tax shelter investigations, audit and litigation
Taxing agencies’ information document requests
Tax procedure
Tax shelter promoter audits and investigations
Estate and gift tax disputes

Capabilities
Tax
Private Wealth Services
Audits, Litigation & Criminal Tax Defense
State & Local Tax (SALT)
Cross-Border Tax Planning
Fiduciary Litigation
State & Federal Tax Controversies

Admission to Practice
California
Supreme Court of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. Tax Court

Languages

English
Spanish

Education

• J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, 1995
• B.S., University of California at Davis, 1990