10 Lawyers from Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP, were named in the 23rd Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 2017, (Woodward/White, Inc., August, 2016). These lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the publication in their fields of practice for Austin, Texas. In addition to being named in the publication, Casey…

David Gilliland prevailed in an administrative proceeding against the Texas Comptroller and secured an approximately $15 million reduction of a franchise audit assessment for an energy client. The Comptroller reversed an audit assessment based on an erroneous adjustment to the client’s apportionment factor stemming from the auditor’s attempt to recast dividends received from a subsidiary…

David Gilliland presented his paper titled Substance over Form: Scope of the Comptroller’s Authority to Impose Business Purpose Requirement when Analyzing Taxability of Transactions, at the University of Texas School of Law 5th Annual Texas Margin Tax Conference. The paper discusses emerging trends in the historical tension between form and substance in the Comptroller’s analysis…