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John Townsend

Sole Practitioner at John A. Townsend, Attorney
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Seasoned tax law expert with extensive experience in tax litigation, controversy, and litigation.
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Houston, Texas, United States, US
Skills
  • Tax Law
  • Tax Litigation
  • Tax Controversy
  • Litigation
  • Appeals
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John Townsend is a seasoned tax law expert with extensive experience in tax litigation, controversy, and litigation. He has taught tax courses at the University of Houston Law Center and has published a Tax Crimes textbook in the Lexis-Nexis graduate tax series. Townsend has worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and has handled cases in various courts, including the Tax Court and U.S. District Courts. He has also practiced as a partner at Townsend & Brodsky, LLP and has experience as a private practitioner. Townsend has a strong background in courts, trials, and dispute resolution, with expertise in tax law, litigation, and appeals. He has also worked in the U.S. Army and has a degree in History from the University of South Carolina.

Experience

  • John A. Townsend, Attorney
    • 2340 Albans Rd., Houston, TX
    • Sole Practitioner
      • Jun 2018 - Present
      • 2340 Albans Rd., Houston, TX
  • Townsend & Jones, LLP
    • Attorney
      • Jan 1990 - May 2018

      Practice tax controversy law - civil and criminal.

  • University of Houston Law Center
    • Adjunct Professor
      • 1982 - Dec 2015

      I have taught a course in Tax Procedure (Fall semester each year) and in Tax Fraud and Money Laundering (Spring semester every other year) for many years now. For a very long time (many years), I had my own text books for each class which are distributed in pdf format. As a by-product of teachi...

  • KPMG Individual Defendants Group
    • Attorneys Came from All Over the Country, but t...
    • One of the Crowd of Lawyers In the Multi-Defendant (19 originally) Criminal T...
      • 2005 - 2008
      • Attorneys Came from All Over the Country, but t...

      Tried to rise above the din. But it was a great experience for me (not for my client, although my client was dismissed along with 12 other defendants pursuant to a precedent setting opinion justifying the dismissal because USAO SDNY had forced KPMG to quit paying those defendants' attorneys ...

  • U.S. Department of Justice
    • United States
    • Law Enforcement
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Trial Attorney, Refund Section 2
      • Mar 1974 - Mar 1977

      Tried tax refund cases, principally in SC and ND GA.

    • Trial Attorney, Tax Division Appellate Section
      • Jul 1969 - Mar 1974

      Handled appeals from Tax Court and U.S. District Courts.

  • Department of Justice Tax Division Refund Trial...
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area
    • Trial Attorney
      • Mar 1974 - Mar 1977
      • Washington D.C. Metro Area

      After doing appellate work in the US Courts of Appeals for 4+ years, I moved to the refund trial section. Although working in DC, I handled cases principally in the Northern District of Georgia and South Carolina, I also handled cases in the other districts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas...

  • Townsend, Brodsky, etc.
    • Partner
      • 1974 - 1977

    • Partner
      • 1974 - 1977

    • Partner
      • 1974 - 1977

  • U.S. Army
    • Ft. Jackson
    • Private
      • Jun 1960 - Dec 1960
      • Ft. Jackson

      Basic Training C-5-5 (with 12 other grunts from my home town, Greenwood, SC; Advanced Infantry Training with those same grunts, In AIT was in the Heavy Weapons Platoon.(with 2 other grunts from my hometown), training on mortars and 106 (really 105) mm recoilless rifle; one of the hometown grunts ...

Education

  • 1964 - 1967
    University of Virginia School of Law
  • 1968 - 1969
    New York University School of Law
  • 1961 - 1964
    University of South Carolina
  • 1960 - 1960
    U.S. Army Basic and Advanced Infantry Training

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