San Jose Lawyer Business Formation • Real Estate • Trusts and Wills
At John D. Teter Law Offices our tax practice focuses chiefly on helping people with business transactions and tax audits and conflicts and includes audits and resolution of liens, seizures, and garnishments. Business transactions include business formation, purchases and sales and dissolutions, and real estate transactions. We also assist with wills and trusts.
John D. Teter Law Offices represents clients in the greater San Francisco Bay Area (SF Bay Area) through his office located in San Jose, CA, the heart of the Silicon Valley. He represents clients throughout Santa Clara County, including Campbell, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, and Palo Alto and to the Southern Santa Clara communities of Hollister, Gilroy, and Morgan Hill. He represents clients on the San Francisco Peninsula (San Mateo County), including Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City. He also represents clients in East Bay communities such as Fremont, Pleasanton, and Livermore, and he provides services to clients in San Benito County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and Monterey County, among others. Contact attorney John D. Teter for 25 years of experience practicing law in California.
Tax Lawyer - Solutions to Tax Issues
You may not understand the tax laws, but you know you are in financial trouble - and maybe legal trouble.
John D. Teter Law Offices has extensive experience in helping individuals and small business owners, and financial officers of larger entities through difficult tax problems. We explain your rights and options in regard to state and federal tax audits, liens, garnishment of wages, seizures, levies, and government actions against the "responsible person" at a company when employment tax deposits are not paid.
We explain five solutions to clients:
- Paying the past due taxes through "unrecognized sources"
- Paying over time through an installment agreement
- Filing for "currently not collectible" status
- An "offer in compromise" equal to what the IRS or state agency would get by liquidating your income and assets
- Using bankruptcy reorganizations or liquidations
We also consult on identifying and resolving audit risks in advance; the ounce of prevention avoids the pound of cure.
We understand that tax issues require you to lay yourself bare. Your tax problem will be treated with discretion and compassion as we work toward a solution that suits you and your business.
We can review or negotiate residential and commercial real estate transactions, including purchase or sale of homes and businesses and 1031 exchanges of similar properties.
We also represent either tenant or landlord in commercial leases. John Teter can answer specific questions, review the lease to point out potential problems, or negotiate the entire lease.
With an extensive business and tax law background, John D. Teter Law Offices can advise you about tax consequences as well as business liability issues with each type of entity for your small business. We can advise on the most advantageous formation for your type of company and business goals, from S-corporations or C-corporations, to limited liability companies (LLC), or limited partnerships.
We also consult on acquisitions, dispositions, and dissolutions of businesses if you want to buy, sell, or terminate.
John D. Teter Law Offices offers basic estate planning that can include a will, living trusts to protect your assets for your family, and advanced health care directives to provide for medical decisions on your behalf. The emphasis is on revocable living trusts that clarify distributions to heirs, avoid probate expense and delay, and minimize any tax liabilities when the estate passes to survivors.
Contact John D. Teter today for qualified and experienced legal counsel with your tax conflict, business formation, real estate transaction, or estate planning needs.
John D. Teter Law Offices
1361 S. Winchester Blvd.
Suite 113
San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: (408) 866-1810
Fax: (408) 866-1850