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Isreal Miller focuses his practice on tax and estate planning. He advises clients on how to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes as well as how to implement and administer complex estate planning structures.
Isreal is Board Certified in Tax Law and Estate Planning & Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner and Personal Financial Specialist.
Isreal Miller focuses his practice on tax and estate planning. He advises clients on how to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes as well as how to implement and administer complex estate planning structures.
Isreal is Board Certified in Tax Law and Estate Planning & Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner and Personal Financial Specialist.
Before going into private practice, Isreal served for five years as a trial attorney for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, where he personally handled over 1,700 cases, including over 850 cases litigated at the State Office of Administrative Hearings. He has extensive experience collaborating with taxpayers, taxpayer representatives, auditors and other agency personnel to resolve disputed state tax issues and claims related to Texas franchise tax and sales and use tax. He also has experience handling unclaimed property claims and holder reports.
Isreal’s representative experience includes:
State Civil Tax Litigation/Controversy Work
- Represents taxpayers in sales and use tax, franchise tax, mixed beverage gross receipts tax and mixed beverage sales tax, nexus and officer and successor liability matters
- Works with taxpayers, taxpayer representatives, auditors and other Comptroller personnel to resolve disputed state tax issues and claims
- Routinely assists taxpayers with Voluntary Disclosure Agreements, Compromise and Settlement Agreements, and Releases of State Tax Liens
Estate Planning, Probate & Transactional Work
- Designs and implements family limited partnerships and other entities to manage family-owned assets
- Represents clients in uncontested will probates and in estate administration
- Counsels clients on and prepares premarital agreements and separate property and community property agreements and on maintenance of separate property interests
- Maintains certification by the State Bar of Texas to serve as an attorney ad litem in Texas courts under Texas Estates Code § 1054.201
Unclaimed Property
- Advises business clients on reporting and remitting unclaimed property and assists individuals with claiming unclaimed property from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
CREDENTIALS
- LL.M., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 2004
- J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law, 2002
- M.S., Personal Financial Planning, Texas Tech University, 2002
- B.A., English and Anthropology, with honors, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999
- Texas
- District of Columbia
- Board Certified in Tax Law and Estate Planning & Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
- Member, AICPA
- Member, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Life Benefactor Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation
- Member, Texas Bar College
- Awarded, Hon. Nikki DeShazo Pro Bono Award, Dallas Bar Association Probate, Trusts and Estates Section (2021)
- Awarded, Committee Member of the Year, TXCPA Dallas (2019)
- Partner, Atwood & McCall, PLLC, Dallas
- Counsel, Gray Reed, Houston
- Assistant General Counsel, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- In-House Counsel, Howard Financial Services, Ltd., Dallas