Giles Sutton resigns from McGuireWoods in Washington to join DHG as a Tax Partner in the Memphis office

Dixon Hughes Goodman has recruited a new tax partner, Giles Sutton, in the Memphis office.

Giles focuses his practice on the multi-state aspects of corporate income and franchise taxes, mergers and acquisitions and sales tax issues. In particular, he focuses on areas of multi-state taxation that have significant impact on companies with multijurisdictional operations. He has handled tax issues pertaining to various corporate restructurings,  post-acquisition integration, global supply chain-based tax planning, and the interaction of federal international tax law with state and local tax laws.

Giles has worked extensively with “group reporting,” specifically, the interaction of financial consolidated reporting and equity accounting with the federal consolidated reporting rules and state group reporting regimes (separate entity, elective consolidation, nexus-consolidation, combined reporting). He has also worked on a number of the emerging issues in state income tax apportionment, including: right to apportion; service and intangible revenue apportionment; throwback, double-throwback and throw-out rules; alternative apportionment and distortion issues. Giles has extensively worked with and published on gross receipts, excise, and severance taxes.

Giles has extensive experience dealing with the state impacts of related party transactions, including related party and third-party debt financing, specifically the state impacts of related member debt obligations, securitizations and related lending terms. In addition, he has dealt with a myriad of nexus issues, including remote seller nexus, affiliate nexus, agency nexus, economic nexus and bright-line nexus. Giles has also dealt with a number of constitutional and federal statutory restrictions pertaining to state taxation including preemption.

He was previously a partner at McGuireWoods in Washington, D.C. and Grant Thornton in Charlotte.