JOSEPH F. DILLON

Mr. Dillon concentrates his practice in the firm's tax controversy group and its corporate and international practice.

Experience:

Joe has a national reputation in the tax controversy area representing taxpayers from the revenue agent level through and including the United States Supreme Court. He is one of the few tax trial attorneys in the United States with a positive "win/loss" record against the Criminal Section, Tax Division, of the Department of Justice. In Joe's international practice, he assists both foreign and domestic companies in setting up business operations in the United States and abroad and, in doing so, minimizing their general liability and tax exposure. He has also represented clients with respect to transfer pricing, "gray market" goods with respect to customs; anti-dumping; rules of origin; FIRPTA; Hart-Scott-Rodino; anti-trust, and many other esoteric and challenging tax, customs and trade law issues. Joe is a Vice-President of the Japan America Society of Detroit Foundation (1992 ---). He is also a member of the Executive Committee and a Director of the Japan-America Society (1992 --).

Before entering private practice, Joe worked for the Chief Counsel's Office of the Internal Revenue Service both in Washington, D.C. and in Detroit, Michigan as a tax trial attorney. After entering private practice, he also taught tax law at the University of Detroit-Mercy Law School for eleven years as an Adjunct Professor.

Joe is a member of the Detroit (Member, Taxation Committee), Federal (Officer and President, Detroit Chapter, 1978-1982), American (Member, Sections on: International Law and Practice; Taxation) and International Bar Associations. He is also a member of the State Bar of Michigan (Member, International Law Section; Taxation Council, 1979-1982); Member, Taxation Section, 1975; the Florida Bar and the Ohio State Bar Association. Some of his professional affiliations include memberships in the American Judicature Society; U.S. Court of International Trade; American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; London Court of International Arbitration, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (1992).

In 1987, Joe qualified to be listed in the Best Lawyer's in America. Finally, in 1996, he was added to Who's Who in American Law. Both listings continue to this date.




	Joseph F. Dillon Email: jdillon@gmhlaw.com Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, P.C. Tenth Floor Columbia Center 101 West Big Beaver Road Troy, Michigan 48084-5280 (248) 457-7102 Education: St. John's University, Brooklyn, N.Y., B.B.A., Accounting University of Virginia, LL.B Admitted to Practice: Virginia New York U.S. Tax Court Michigan Ohio Florida