Executive Summary

Joe Calianno is a tax partner in BDO’s Washington D.C. office. 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.

Prior to joining BDO, Joe was a partner with a large national firm’s National Tax Office and previously worked as Special Counsel to the Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (International) in the office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. As Special Counsel, he served as a technical advisor and was involved in reviewing international tax regulations, revenue rulings, Notices, TAMs, PLRs, and providing technical advice to IRS field offices. He also spent several years in private practice advising clients in several areas of tax law, including international, corporate and partnership taxation.

Joe is also 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.