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Tax Associate, Esq., LL.M
Email: Matthew.Morris@mrobinson.com
Phone: 617.428.0043
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Matthew A. Morris joined M. Robinson and Company as a Tax Associate in December 2009. Since joining the firm, Matthew has represented individuals, corporations, and fiduciaries in a broad range of federal and state tax controversies. Some of his recent experience includes:
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Representing an individual and an executor of an estate before the IRS in an Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative case.
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Defending a national transportation company on federal and state constitutional grounds against a massive use tax assessment from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
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Representing the owner of a family-owned flooring company in a complex gross receipts audit by the IRS.
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Helping an individual who did not file 9 years of income tax returns to recover refunds from the IRS and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
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Successfully petitioning the Massachusetts Department of Revenue for a waiver of failure to file and failure to pay penalties on the basis of reasonable cause.
Matthew received his J.D., cum laude, from University of Maine School of Law in 2008, where he served as Executive Editor of the Maine Law Review and was presented with the Student Bar Association Distinguished Service Award. In 2009, Matthew received his LL.M. in Taxation from the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law and was awarded the first annual Ernest M. Haddad Award for academic achievement, character, and potential to serve the public interest. He also received a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from Brown University in 2000 and a M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University in 2004.
Matthew is a member of the Boston Bar Association (BBA), the Boston Estate Planning Council (BEPC), and the Brown University Club of Boston to which he was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors. He also plays an active role for the Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) of the Boston Bar Association by helping low-income clients to negotiate with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Matthew also volunteers as a Big Brother for Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBSMB) of Massachusetts Bay.
Matthew is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before the United States Tax Court. |
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