Knowledgeable and Trusted San Jose Attorney
Business Formation • Real Estate • Trusts and Wills • Taxation and Audits
At John D. Teter Law Offices, our legal practice focuses chiefly on using our knowledge and experience to help people with resolution of conflicts and controversies like tax audits, liens, seizures, and garnishments. Business-related transactions include business formation, purchases and sales and dissolutions, and real estate transactions. We also assist with wills and trusts to help our clients protect assets and ensure that their wishes will be followed. Contact attorney John D. Teter for 27 years of experience practicing law in California.
If you have been contacted by the IRS, FTB, BOE, or EDD, you have a conflict or controversy. 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, 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.
First we determine if you have a tax liability. If you have a liability, we explain five solutions to prevent levies and stop garnishments:
- Paying the past due taxes through "unrecognized sources"
- Paying over time through an installment agreement
- Treatment as "currently not collectible"
- An "offer in compromise" based on your assets and ability to pay
- 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 can be personal. At our office, your tax problem will be treated with discretion and compassion as we work toward a solution that suits you and your business.
As an experienced tax lawyer, Mr. Teter can also assist clients in dealing with IRS tax audits and foreign investment reporting on offshore bank accounts and business operations.
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 living trust and pour-over will 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, avoiding probate expense and delay, and minimizing any tax liabilities when the estate passes to survivors.
Contact John D. Teter today for qualified and experienced legal counsel with your tax conflict, foreign investment reporting, business formation, real estate transaction, or estate planning needs.
John D. Teter Law Offices
1361 S. Winchester
Suite 113
San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: (408) 866-1810
Fax: (408) 866-1850
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