Arthur R Rosen

Practice Areas

Counsel Arthur R. Rosen focuses his practice on tax planning and litigation relating to state and local tax matters for corporations, partnerships and individuals. Formerly the deputy counsel of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, as well as counsel to the governor’s Temporary Sales Tax Commission and tax counsel to the New York State Senate Tax Committee, Arthur has also held executive tax management positions at Xerox Corporation and AT&T. He has worked in accounting and law firms in New York City.

Arthur was the founder and editor of the monthly newsletter Inside New York Taxes and the co-editor of the semi-monthly newsletters New York Tax Highlights and New York Tax Cases. He is Chair of Bloomberg BNA’s State and Local Tax Advisory Board. He was the original editor in chief of CCH’s E-Commerce Tax Alert, and was the monthly tax columnist for the E-Commerce Law Journal. Arthur has written scores of articles that have appeared in numerous professional publications and has spoken hundreds of times throughout the country on state and local tax matters.

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Professional Memberships

New York State Bar Association, Tax Section, Executive Committee member; American College of Tax Counsel, fellow; Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Committee chair.

Work Highlights

Advised in planning nationwide and represented in several states a major multinational pharmaceutical business in connection with treatment of multibillion gain from disposition of a line of business

Advised and represented in several states a major financial services-related business in connection with receipts apportionment

Advised and represented in several states a major international bank in connection with combined reporting and apportionment

Advised a major American direct retailer on state-level and federal sales tax nexus legislation