Feb. 2, 2011
Avoid 'Tax Shelter’ Taint
Distinguishing between proscribed tax shelters and legitimate tax planning.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601
Phone: (415) 834-0113
Fax: (415) 789-4540
Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
Some phrases just sound unsavory. Increasingly, the "tax shelter" label is one of them. By tax shelter, I don't mean investing in real estate, the home mortgage interest deduction or your 401(k). Those may "shelter" taxes but they are not "tax shelters."
We've had several tax shelter eras since 1913 when our federal income tax was born. Our most recent shelter era saw the collapse of Enron,...
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