Over the past five years Becky Meehan and Eva Leung have successfully assisted a series of clients in dealing with Internal Revenue Service challenges involving tens of millions of dollars in potential taxable income increases and millions of dollars in possible liabilities.

Those challenges covered a multitude of issues, including non-filing, prior period accounting and reporting errors, multi-year income omission, questionable tiered and offshore entity transactions, other forms of questionable tax shelters, incorrect pass-through entity reporting, and disagreements concerning the treatment and characterization of various transactions.

Becky and Eva have a combined total of nearly thirty years experience in income tax engagements with our firm. They don't conduct their tax controversies practice alone, though. Joe Dawson, a forty-year public accounting tax veteran and former adjunct faculty member in the University of Washington Law School LL.M. program in Taxation, assists them when he's needed.

Their tax controversy engagements do not always directly involve the taxing authorities. As an example, Becky’s testimony in a recent contested Bankruptcy Court confirmation hearing concerning the magnitude of a solvent debtor's likely income tax liabilities prevailed over the assertions of the trustee's outside accountants, and avoided an unnecessary distress sale of a multimillion-dollar rental property.

Several of their recent engagements have involved large financially-troubled businesses, so after Becky's 2003 completion of her Master of Professional Accounting in Taxation degree at the University of Washington, she and Eva completed the requirements and joined Joe and Nina Gerbic as Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors.