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Ruth Wimer
Ruth is an attorney and a certified public accountant with nearly 30 years of experience previously serving as a senior partner in the national tax department of a Big Four accounting firm. She focuses her practice on matters related to executive compensation, including international, employment taxes and payroll, fringe benefits, personal use of business aircraft, and qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Resolved worker misclassification issues for a major acquisition of professional medical practices.
- Restructured aircraft ownership for a foreign high-net-worth individual in compliance with FAA and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requirements.
- Consulted on reporting and withholding issues for global workforce of a large international private company.
- Restructured aircraft ownership for a public company to comply with new foreign ownership of an operating company.
- Determined the employee count for an Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer mandate for a major East Coast hospital.
- Successfully defended a multimillion-dollar tax audit of casino-related companies.
- Guided a professional employer organization (PEO) through compliance with employment taxes in light of the Cencast decision.
- Prepared proxy disclosures for public companies with respect to personal travel on company airplane, and other fringe benefits.