J.D., LLM Tax, MBA, CPA

Joseph M. Calianno

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Partner, International Technical Tax Practice Leader

National Tax Office

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Joe Calianno is partner and the International Technical Tax Practice Leader in the Washington National Tax Office of Grant Thornton LLP. He practices in all areas of international taxation and helps assist the offices around the firm and the firm’s clients with complex international issues. He regularly advises on issues relating to cross border restructuring and financing, subpart F, foreign tax credit planning, tax treaties and global tax rate reduction.

Experience

Prior to joining Grant Thornton LLP, Joe was a Special Counsel to the Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (International) in the office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. As a Special Counsel, he was the technical advisor to the Associate and Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (International) and was involved in reviewing international tax regulations, revenue rulings, Notices, TAMs, PLRs and providing technical advice to the IRS field offices. He also served as an Assistant Branch Chief in Branch 6 (Corporate) in the Office of Chief Counsel in which he reviewed corporate tax public guidance projects, PLRs and TAMs. Additionally, he was an Attorney-Advisor in Branch 4 (International) in the office of Chief Counsel.

Mr. Calianno also spent several years in private practice at the Washington National Tax Office of Coopers & Lybrand LLP and a large law firm in which he advised clients in several areas of tax law, including international, corporate and partnership taxation.

Professional qualifications and memberships

Member of the ABA’s Tax Section

-Chair of the Foreign Activities of U.S. taxpayers (FAUST) committee

-Former Vice-Chair of FAUST committee
-Former Chairman, International Aspects of Subchapter C Sub-Committee, FAUST

Member of the AICPA
-Immediate Past Chair of the AICPA’s International Technical Resource Panel

-Former Vice-Chairman of AICPA’s International Technical Resource Panel
-Chairman, AICPA’s Cross-Border M&A Task Force

Board of Advisors for RIA’s Journal of International Taxation, RIA’s Journal of Corporate Tax, CCH’s Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, the AICPA’s Tax Advisor and Atlas/BNA Bloomberg CITE.

Community involvement

Joe is a guest lecturer at New York University Law School in the Graduate Tax Program (International Business Transactions class) and has been an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown Law School in the Graduate Tax Program

Education

M.B.A., New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business
LL.M. in Taxation, New York University School of Law
J.D., Villanova University School of Law, cum laude, and member of the Villanova Law Review
B.S. in Accounting, University of Scranton

Presentations and publications

Mr. Calianno is a frequent speaker on international and corporate tax issues, especially issues relating to cross border restructurings. He has spoken at several national and regional tax conferences, including the ABA, AICPA, Ali-ABA, Atlas, BNA, DC Bar, Dallas Bar, Federal Bar, GW/IRS, Houston International Tax Forum, IFA, MACPA, NYU Advanced International Tax Institute, Practising Law Institute, TEI, St. Louis International Tax Group, USD School of Law/Procopio International Tax Institute, Wall Street and World Trade Council tax conferences.

He also has published numerous articles in national journals on international and corporate tax issues, including articles in RIA’s Business Entities, CCH’s Global Tax Briefing, CCH’s Journal of Passthrough Entities, CCH’s Journal of International Tax, International Tax Review, RIA’s Journal of International Taxation, RIA’s Journal of Corporate Taxation, RIA’s Journal of Taxation, Practising Law Institute, CCH’s Taxation of Global Transactions, Tax Notes, Tax Notes International, Tax Management International Journal, Tax Management Memorandum and The Tax Adviser. His articles have been cited in several major treatises and he frequently is quoted in the tax press on legislative and regulatory developments.

Contact details

1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400

Washington, DC 20036

T: 202.521.1505

F: 202.833.9165

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