Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Tax Consulting Services for Businesses

Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Tax Consultants can help you identify solutions to a full spectrum of Business Tax issues, including: (1) formation, acquisition, and reorganization of businesses; (2) sales, liquidations, and other dispositions of business; (3) annual and long-range income tax planning reviews; (4) preparation or review of income tax returns; (5) planning of asset acquisitions and dispositions; (6) employment tax issues; and (7) multistate tax compliance.

Why is Tax Law Like the Weather?

Because it's constantly changing. Tax law has grown so complex, scarcely any company doing business today has all the answers. And, like a long spell of bad weather, tax law can be a real headache. That's why our Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Tax Consultants have made it their business to help business owner-operators like you:

• Optimize tax positions,
• Anticipate future transactions, developing a structure favorable to the business, and
• Define tax-saving methods to attract and retain key people.

In a tax environment of changing rules and regulations, timely response is a vital part of effective business tax planning--a part for which our consultants are well qualified. But the essence of effective planning is anticipating changes before they occur--and arranging your business activities to obtain the maximum tax advantage. Here, we believe, the professionals of Lee, Sperling, Hisamune excel.

Rethinking Your Tax-Planning Approaches

As you know, recent tax legislation has forced businesses like yours to change the ways they capitalize, depreciate, and amortize assets. Consequently, you many need to rethink your "classic" tax-planning approaches. The rules have grown not only more numerous and complex, they've changed: A different set of rules and permissible methods now applies. But you don't have to tackle these business tax intricacies on your own.

How Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Tax Consultants Can Help

Our professionals can help you anticipate, understand, and respond to rapidly changing areas of the tax law. In addition, Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Tax Consultants are ready to help you integrate your immediate business objectives with your overall strategic plan. So you stay on top of ongoing issues such as retirement planning and multistate tax problems.

Introducing the Business Needs Assessment

The Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Business Needs Assessment is a client-service tool our consultants use to identify business tax planning opportunities and trouble spots. Not an end-product in itself, it won't resolve major issues. However, it provides a quick overview of how well you can respond to the kind of tax and financial questions independent business owners face today:

• "Will my business remain stable if I or any of my key people die or become disabled?"
• "Have I expanded our production facilities too much, too soon?"
• "What opportunities have been created by recent changes in the tax law?"
• "What compliance burdens are associated with those opportunities?"
• "If given a 30-day notice by the IRS, would I be able to supply documentation to support my tax reporting?"

Serving Your Business Tax Consulting Needs

Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Tax Consultants know that your business is a unique extension of your outlook and objectives. With our professionals in your corner, you receive hands-on, personalized assistance from professionals who understand what it takes to make a business succeed.

We Can Help

The need to rethink your tax-planning approaches needn't overwhelm you. Find out more about our Business Tax Consulting Services:

• Record Retention
• Business Valuation
• Managing Taxes in a Growing Business
• Cost Recovery Studies

For more information on our Tax Consulting Services for Business, please complete the information request form.

Lee, Sperling, Hisamune
550 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 525
Glendale, California 91203
Phone: (818) 507-6645 - Fax: (818) 507-7891
Email: lsh@leesperling.com