Appearances & Articles
The Appearances & Articles page of Asbury Gardner Tax Counsel features upcoming events, published articles, press highlights, and key speeches and seminars showcasing the firm’s thought leadership in tax law.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, The Georgia Society of CPAs Atlanta Chapter Technical Seminar, Atlanta, Georgia, December 9, 2025.
Tax Talk, The Georgia Society of CPAs 2025 Georgia Tax Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, November 6, 2025.
Plenary Session: Navigating the IRS in the Wake of DOGE, Tax Executives Institute 2025 Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, October 28, 2025.
Individual and Family Taxes Under the One Big Beautiful Bill: What’s Changed?, ABA Tax Section Webinar, October 7, 2025.
Federal Tax Refund Litigation, Strafford Webinar, July 17, 2025.
Transfer Pricing Update: Managing Exposure – Lessons Learned from Recent Cases and Penalty Assertions, Tax Executives Institute’s Conference, Sandusky, Ohio, June 19, 2025.
Managing Transfer Pricing Exposures: Lessons Learned from Recent Cases and Penalty Assertions, Tax Executives Institute’s Midyear Conference, Washington, D.C., March 19, 2025.
Navigating Tax Court: Filing a Tax Court Petition, Burden of Proof, Discovery, Avenues for Settlement, Key Deadlines, Strafford Webinar, March 4, 2025.
Conservation Easements: The Year in Review, What to Expect, ABA National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud and Civil Controversy, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 12, 2024 with Todd Welty (Kostelanetz), David Foster (Kirkland & Ellis), and Sarah Green (Dentons).
Impact of New FASB Disclosure Rules on Tax Reserves and Schedule UTP, Tax Executives Institute Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 30, 2024 with Jerry Fish (Anderson).
Current Developments in Transfer Pricing Penalties, the Compliance Assurance Process, and the IRS’ Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, Tax Executives Institute Controversy Roundtable, October 24, 2024.
IRS Collection and Use of Third-Party Information, Tax Executive Institute 2024 Audits and Appeals Seminar, Tysons, Virginia, September 11, 2024 with Sheri Dillon (Morgan Lewis), Joel Williamson (Mayer Brown).
Easement Litigation Update hosted by Agostino & Associates, Lyndhurst, NJ, June 26, 2024, with David Aughtry (Chamberlain Hrdlicka), Guinevere Moore (Moore Tax Law), and Michelle Levin (Dentons).
Navigating Privilege and Related Issues During an Examination or Appeal, American Bar Association 2024 May Tax Meeting, Washington, D.C., with Jennifer Breen (Morgan Lewis), Samuel Lapin (Miller & Chevalier) and Christopher Valvardi (DOJ), May 3, 2024.
Understanding the IRS’s New Enforcement Strategies, Including the Use of AI, Tax Executives Institute Midyear Conference, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2024, with Armando Gomez (Skadden) Sharon Katz-Pearlman (Greenberg Traurig).
To Sham or Not To Sham, American Bar Association 2024 Midyear Tax Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 19, 2024.
Tax Talk with Art and Anson, Georgia Tax Forum, Atlanta, Georgia November 1, 2023.
Tax Talk with Art and Anson, 2023 GSPCA Southeastern Accounting Show, Atlanta, Georgia, August 24, 2023.
Challenging Times: The State of APA Litigation in Tax Cases, Federal Bar Association Tax Law Conference, March 7, 2023.
Conservation Easement Litigation, Tulane Tax Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 18, 2022.
Tax Controversy Update, Dekalb Chapter, Georgia Society of CPAs, August 23, 2022.
Conservation Easement Litigation Update, Atlanta CPA Alliance, Atlanta, Georgia, August 3, 2022.
Conservation Easements: Defending IRS Challenges, Strafford Webinar on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.
It’s Getting Hot in Here: Tax Controversy Update, 2021 Virtual Southeastern Accounting Show, August 26, 2021.
Schedule UTP and Schedule M-3: Recent IRS Actions, Lorman Webinar, June 28, 2021.
Recent Developments in Conservation Easements, Federal Bar Association [Virtual] Tax Conference 2021, March 3, 2021.
Hot Topics in Tax Controversy for Estate Planning, Georgia Estate Planning Institute, February 7, 2020, Athens, Georgia.
Litigating a Conservation Easement Case. American Bar Association, Section of Taxation Mid-Year Meeting, January 30, 2020, Boca Raton, FL.
Hot Topics in Tax Controversy, Cobb County Bar Association Solo Small Firm Section and Young Lawyer Division CLE, Marietta, Georgia, January 30, 2026.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Georgia Society of CPAs Dekalb and Gwinnett Chapters, Duluth, Georgia, January 27, 2026.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Atlanta Bar Association’s Joint Tax Law Section and The Georgia Society of CPAs Luncheon, Atlanta, Georgia, November 18, 2025.
Breakout Session: IRS Appeals: The ADR Pilot Program and New Regulations in 2025, Tax Executives Institute 2025 Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, October 28, 2025.
Administrative Practice Committee’s Effective Access Panel, American Bar Association Virtual 2025 Fall Tax Meeting, October 22, 2025.
Tax Talk, GSPCA Southeastern Accounting Show, Atlanta, Georgia, August 20, 2025.
Ethics in a Changing IRS Environment — Reminder of Your Obligations, Tax Executives Institute’s Conference, Sandusky, Ohio, June 20, 2025.
Federal Tax Controversies – IRS Audits and Appeals Update, Tax Executives Institute’s Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, June 12, 2025.
Tax Controversy Hot Topics, Tax Executives Institute’s Midyear Conference, Washington, D.C., March 19, 2025.
Navigating Tax Court Trial with Criminal Exposure, ABA Tax Section’s 2025 Midyear Tax Meeting, February 21, 2025.
Vital IRS Updates on Collection Issues Impacting Taxpayers, Georgia Tax Form, Atlanta, Georgia, November 7, 2024.
Tales from the Front: Early Experiences with the IRS’s New Partnership Tax Organization, Tax Executives Institute Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 29, 2024, with Kathy Pakenham (Vinson & Elkins) and Rochelle Hodes (Crowe).
Collections and BBA Partnerships: How to Represent the Partner, American Bar Association Tax Section Virtual Fall Meeting, September 26, 2024 (Covington & Burling).
Tax Talk with Art and Anson, 2024 GSPCA Southeastern Accounting Show, Atlanta, Georgia, August 21, 2024.
IRS Examination Issues Happening Right Now, Tax Executives Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 16, 2024.
Employee Retention Credit: Guidance and Controversy, Tax Executives Institute Midyear Conference, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2024.
Ethical Issues Involving Communications with Return Preparers, American Bar Association 2024 Midyear Tax Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 19, 2024, with Sarah Green (Dentons).
Conservation Easements: The Year In Review, and What to Expect, ABA 40th Annual Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 9, 2023.
Update on Syndicated Conservation Easements, Summer Tax Summit, St. Louis, Missouri, August 29, 2023.
Subpoena Hearings: Tips for Effective Subpoena Practice Before the Court, ABA Section of Tax May Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2023.
What is it Worth? Valuation Experts in the US Tax Court, ABA Section of Taxation Midyear Meeting, San Diego, California, February 2023.
Depositions in United States Tax Court, American Bar Association, Tax Section Fall Meeting, Dallas, Texas, October 14, 2022.
Tax Controversy Update, Gwinnett Chapter, Georgia Society of CPAs, August 16, 2022.
Demystifying the Tax Court, ABA Judicial Section’s Bench & Bar Academy, Atlanta, Georgia, April 5, 2022.
Hot Topics in Tax Controversy and Conservation Easement Litigation, Georgia Society of CPAs, Dekalb Chapter, October 26, 2021.
The Times “Might” be A-Changin: Business Law Update, 2021 Virtual Southeastern Accounting Show, August 25, 2021.
Correcting Foreign information Reporting Noncompliance: Voluntary Disclosure Programs, June 14, 2021.
Responding to IDRs: Key Considerations and Best Practices, American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, Virtual 2020 May Meeting, July 29, 2020.
Workin’ On It: Understanding Employment Tax Controversies. American Bar Association, Section of Taxation Mid-Year Meeting, January 30, 2020, Boca Raton, Florida.
Kwong Opens New Path for COVID-19 Refunds
By Brian Gardner
Procedurally Taxing, April 2026
Employee Retention Credit: It’s Not All Fraud
By Brian Gardner
Tax Notes Federal, October 2023
Oops! I Did it Again: Practical Implications of Revenue Procedure 2022-39
By Mark Mesler
Tax Executive, July/August 2023
Champions III: Conservation Easement and Golf
By Anson Asbury
Procedurally Taxing, November 2022
Can Grammar Solve the Conservation Easement Proceeds Clause?
By Anson Asbury
Tax Notes Federal, February 2022
Alla Raykin was quoted by Bloomberg in their article about Georgia’s new Tax Court. August 11, 2026.
Alla Raykin was quoted by Law360 on potential repeal of state tax exemptions on data centers at the American Bar Association’s Institute for Professionals in Taxation. March 17, 2026.
Alla Raykin joined the Firm as Partner. January 6, 2026.
Brian was quoted in Law360 regarding the IRS’s use of the economic substance doctrine to characterize tax transactions as abusive. June 5, 2024 edition of Law360.
Anson was quoted about the acquittal of a conservation easement appraiser in the Department of Justice case in the Northern District of Georgia. October 2, 2023 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Tax News Today article about how easement verdicts have shown that fraud, rather than appraisals, is the problem. September 26, 2023 edition of Tax News Today.
Anson quoted discussing a potential push to invoke baseball-style arbitration to resolve protracted easement valuation disputes with the IRS. June 21, 2022 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Tax News Today article about how the government seems to be escalating its attack per a recent easement indictment. April 12, 2022 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing continued syndicated conservation easement deals and the IRS’s litigation efforts. May 1, 2022 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Anson quoted about the IRS’s dislike of highest and best use analysis within a superseding inditement for a syndicated conservation easement promoter case. April 12, 2022 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Brian was quoted in a Tax Notes Today article about a retroactive correction to an easement deed. November 29, 2021 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Brian was quoted in a Tax Notes Today article about a case he handled concerning a defense contractor. August 19, 2021 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about changes to tax court filing. August 4, 2021 edition of Bloomberg Law.
Anson was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the impact of tax court delays on underrepresented, low income people. July 30, 2021 edition of Bloomberg Law.
Anson was quoted in a Tax Notes Today article about tax debt and passport revocation. July 26, 2021 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Tax Notes Today article covering the first easement indictment. July 12, 2021 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Brian was quoted about an Eleventh Circuit decision holding that a partnership was liable for a 40 percent penalty for grossly overvaluing a conservation easement. June 24, 2021 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Forbes article discussing the IRS’s investigation into cryptocurrency and next steps for taxpayers. May 13, 2021 edition of Forbes.
Anson was quoted in a Tax Notes article about the IRS’s winning streak with conservation easement cases. January 11, 2021 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Tax Notes Day article about a partnership challenging easement regulations. October 26, 2020 edition of Tax Notes Today.
Anson was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the Tax Court pause for technology updates. October 20, 2020 edition of Bloomberg Law.
Brian was quoted in a Tax Notes Today article about the overturning of an IRS win in a case centered on a golf course. May 18, 2020 edition of Tax Notes Today.