Bryan C. Skarlatos represents clients in civil and criminal tax controversies, corporate internal investigations, white-collar criminal matters and complex commercial litigation.

Mr. Skarlatos currently represents numerous corporations and individuals involved in “tax shelter” matters and has many of those cases docketed in federal district courts and the United States Tax Court.  In addition, Mr. Skarlatos is frequently called upon to assist clients who wish to make voluntary disclosure regarding certain tax issues to the IRS in order to avoid prosecution.

Mr. Skarlatos is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University School of Law, where he teaches a course on Tax Penalties and Prosecutions and he is a fellow the American College of Tax Counsel.  Mr. Skarlatos has been recognized in “The Best Lawyers of America” and “New York Super Lawyers” in the fields of taxation and white-collar criminal defense.

Mr. Skarlatos was chair of the Compliance, Practice and Procedure Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, the Personal Income Tax Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the Tax Committee of the New York County Lawyers’ Association.  He is incoming chair of the Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section.  Mr. Skarlatos has been nominated to serve on several bar association task forces, including the New York State Bar Association task force on Attorney Client Privilege and American Bar Association task forces on Tax Shelters, Circular 230 and Ethics 2000.

Mr. Skarlatos speaks frequently on topics related to civil and criminal tax controversies, including lectures for the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the Connecticut State Bar Association, the Tax Executive Institute, the Practising Law Institute and the Bureau of National Affairs.  He has also been an instructor with the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants/Foundation For Accounting Education.  Mr. Skarlatos has written several articles for various law reviews and journals and he was co-author of a regular column in the New York Law Journal entitled Tax Litigation Issues.