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Barclay Taylor

Barclay R. Taylor

Of Counsel
Phone: 404.504.5474
Fax: 404.365.9532
btaylor@mmmlaw.com

Barclay R. Taylor is Chair of the firm’s Tax Controversy practice. Barclay represents individuals, businesses, trusts, and estates in all stages of disputes with the IRS and state taxing authorities.  He represents taxpayers in pre-trial settlement and litigation before the United States Tax Court, Federal District Courts, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Barclay regularly assists clients with penalty disputes, lien disputes, tax collections resolutions, refund claims, employment tax issues, worker classification issues, reasonable compensation disputes, foreign asset reporting, voluntary disclosures, conservation easement disputes, employee retention credits, and more.

Prior to joining the firm, Barclay was a tax controversy attorney for nearly a decade at a tax-focused Am Law 200 law firm. Barclay also worked as an international tax associate at a Big Four accounting firm.

Representative Experience

  • Successfully settled audit of corporate business expenses including bad debt, depreciation, and aircraft deductions.
  • Successfully settled reasonable compensation audit of corporate officer resulting in no changes for the taxpayer.
  • Successfully settled worker classification audit saving the taxpayer over $100,000 in employment tax liabilities.
  • Obtained full relief for taxpayer in trust fund recovery penalty (“TFRP”) action related to employment taxes.
  • Successfully settled audit of a multimillion-dollar estate resulting in no additional tax liability for the taxpayer.
  • Negotiated installment agreement for taxpayer with over $2 million tax liability.
  • Successfully settled $1 million transfer pricing dispute resulting in no additional tax liability for the taxpayer.
  • Successfully settled foreign information return and FBAR penalties of $1.7 million for less than $400,000.
  • Successfully obtained penalty relief for multiple individuals in the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (“OVDP”) and Streamline Disclosure Programs.
  • Represented multiple conservation easement donors at IRS Exam, IRS Appeals, and the United States Tax Court.
  • Obtained multiple favorable private letter rulings (“PLRs”) for late S-Corporation elections.

Accolades

  • Selected, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Tax Law, 2022-2025
  • Selected, Georgia Trend's Legal Elite, 2023-2024
  • Selected, Georgia Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2020-2022

Membership

  • American Bar Association, Tax Section
  • Georgia Bar Association, Tax Section and Corporate Section
  • Atlanta Bar Association, Tax Section
  • International Fiscal Association
  • Atlanta Film Festival, Board of Directors, 2013-2019

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