Eric P. Rothenberg concentrates his practice mostly on the practice of tax law including, partnerships, tax free exchanges, bitcoin/crypto currency taxes and strategies, sales of businesses, individual tax planning, estate and gift tax planning and tax return preparation. He also represents clients before all levels of the Internal Revenue Service, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the U.S. Tax Court and the Appellate Tax Board. He counsels clients for corporate tax planning, professional corporations and fringe benefits. He defends Domicile Audits in Massachusetts.
He also does work in business related fields such as preparation of wills and trusts, partnership and corporate agreements and formations, limited liability companies, LLP’s and real estate transactions and syndications. He recently has represented many clients on cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin, and how to properly report such transactions to the IRS and proper tax planning for such trading.
Mr. Rothenberg was the author of the WG&L TAX PLANNER, a system of tax planning computer software, published by Warren, Gorham and Lamont, Boston, Massachusetts, which was sold nationally to lawyers, accountants and financial planners. One software package computed estate and gift taxes and the other computed income taxes. In addition, he is the author of several articles which have appeared in such professional journals as Taxation for Lawyers, Taxation for Accountants, National Tax Shelter Digest, Taxes, Mass CPA Journal, Digest of Federal Taxes. Mr. Rothenberg has lectured on various tax subjects before professional continuing education courses. In addition, he has served as an expert witness in U. S. District Court and Massachusetts Superior Court.
Mr. Rothenberg received his A.B. from Cornell University in 1973, his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1976 and his M.B.A. from Boston University Graduate School of Management in 1976 (High Honors). Mr. Rothenberg was on the Board of Directors, Blackstone Bank and Trust, Boston, Massachusetts from 1987-1991. He was a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for many years and has earned an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest rating issued for attorneys. He has been admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and may practice before the United States Tax Court. Mr. Rothenberg has been named one of Massachusetts’s “Massachusetts Super Lawyers” for 21 consecutive years (every year since the award’s inception in 2004), and as a “Top Attorney in Tax Law in 2009” by the publishers of Law & Politics and the publishers of Boston Magazine.
Mr. Rothenberg’s virtual and cryptocurrency practice has him representing miners, stakers, newly created cryptocurrency, FBAR reporting requirements, audits of unreported currency transactions, day trading currencies, taxation of air drops, reflections, hard & soft forks, and the most current thinking by the IRS, the Department of the Treasury and FinCEN.
Attorney Rothenberg was selected in 2012 as one of Boston’s Top Rated Lawyers, based on his AV® PreeminentTM rating, the very first year of such pronouncements.