Matthew Spradling is a Senior Associate Attorney in ZMF Law’s tax practice group. He completed his J.D. and Master of Laws in Taxation at SMU Dedman School of Law. While completing his studies at SMU, he assisted low income Taxpayer’s in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (“VITA”) and practiced as a supervising student-attorney in SMU’s Federal Tax Clinic.
Mr. Spradling currently assists clients with tax compliance and planning issues; he also represents taxpayers before the IRS, in Federal Tax Court, and before various state taxing authorities. Areas of practice include:
- Captive insurance compliance and defense
- Corporate tax credit and deduction consulting and defense
- IRS collections matters
- Tax-exempt organization compliance
- Federal tax accounting
- Penalty abatement and reasonable cause defense
- International tax compliance
