Add GBQ's Tax Experience To Your Bottom Line
GBQ Partners, a Top 100 tax, accounting, and consulting firm with over 70 years of experience, delivers specialized tax services to help businesses, investors, and individuals minimize liabilities, accelerate savings, and navigate complex regulations. Expand each section below to learn more about our areas of expertise. Or, click here to contact our tax and advisory services team today for a consultation.
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Cost Segregation
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Let's Give Your Real Estate Investments A Financial Makeover
Accelerate depreciation and unlock significant tax savings on real estate investments. GBQ's cost segregation services analyze property costs to reclassify assets for faster depreciation, reducing taxable income, lowering capital gains, and boosting cash flow, backed by IRS-compliant studies and audit defense.
Contact a GBQ cost segregation specialist today to get started.
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Credits & Incentives
GBQ’s Credits and Incentives team helps businesses establish, relocate, or expand operations by identifying and securing valuable state and local incentives. Our expert team navigates programs like tax credits, property tax abatements, sales tax exemptions, cash grants, training support, and financing to reduce costs, boost cash flow, and minimize risks. With deep industry knowledge and strong economic development relationships, we deliver integrated strategies that enhance bottom-line savings, strengthen community ties, and support confident growth across manufacturing, headquarters, data centers, distribution, and more.
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International Tax
Local Support For Your Global Operations
Manage global operations with confidence through expert international tax consulting. GBQ offers comprehensive services, including expatriate taxation, entity structuring, tax treaty analysis, global compliance, indirect taxes, and transfer pricing. Our team of international tax experts leverages alliances for worldwide expertise to optimize profits and cash flows.
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Indirect Tax
A Direct Response To Indirect Tax
GBQ commits to developing a strategy that aligns with the client’s overall tax strategy and is sustainable for the client to manage going forward.
Businesses operating worldwide are impacted by a variety of non-income taxes and duties. These taxes, unless properly managed, can have a greater impact on the bottom line compared to income taxes. With complex rules and rates differing based on jurisdictions and the type of business, governments are continually changing these indirect taxes as a favored revenue generator.
GBQ helps you understand, manage, and mitigate these global indirect tax obligations. Whether being faced with an audit or looking to assess the adequacy of the current practices and procedures, GBQ can partner with you to determine the specific scope of your needs and develop the right approach.
Our Indirect Tax Team Supports
- Audit Support & Recovery Opportunities
- Compliance Obligation Review
- Procedures & Internal Control
- Staff Training
- Due Diligence Reviews
Empowering growth is only a conversation away. Contact us today.
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Mergers & Acquisition Tax
Come To The Table With Expertise That Drives Results
Optimize tax outcomes in M&A transactions with strategic planning and due diligence. GBQ's Mergers & Acquisitions Tax team provides buy-side/sell-side advisory, structuring, and compliance to minimize risks, enhance deal value, and align with evolving tax laws for seamless transitions.
Drive Value In Your Next M&A Deal
Tax Due Diligence & Structuring Services
- Structuring for acquisitions, dispositions, & mergers.
- Tax modeling.
- Buy-side and Sell-side due diligence
- Planning for tax “step-ups.”
- Tax attribute analysis (NOL’s, etc.)
- Change in control payment analysis (Section 280G, etc.).
- Analysis of transaction costs.
- Calculations for remediation (“make-whole” payments).
- Optimal transaction structuring; e.g., reorganizations, asset sales, IRC 338(h)(10) elections, and execution.
- Shareholder/partner tax planning.
- Tax compliance, e.g., federal, state, local, and international.
- Accounting method reviews, e.g., inventory & capitalization expense acceleration, and income deferral.
- Tax accounting services; e.g., ASC 740 (fka FIN 48), FAS 109.
- Federal tax services, e.g., manufacturing deduction, R&D credits, earnings and profits studies.
- International tax planning, e.g., transfer pricing, foreign tax credit planning.
- Executive compensation, e.g., IRC 409A, IRC 280G, stock option-related planning and compliance.
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Outsourced Tax Services
We're Ready To Be A Part Of Your Team
Scale your tax function efficiently with outsourced tax preparation and support. GBQ delivers flexible, high-caliber solutions on full-time, part-time, or consultative bases. GBQ's outsourced tax services team acts as an extension of your team to handle compliance, planning, and complex projects with precision.
Our team has a wide range of experience operating in a corporate tax environment, including:
- Tax Compliance - Income, Sales/Use, and Property Tax
- Income Tax Accounting (ASC 740)
- Business/Tax Planning Through Integration With Internal Finance Teams
- Income Tax & Cash Flow Projections
- Tax Fixed Asset Maintenance
- Tax Account Balance Sheet Reconciliations
When you work with GBQ's outsourced tax services team, you can count on your business projects being completed with high-caliber resources. Our goal is to integrate seamlessly into your team, handling the day-to-day responsibilities of a tax department while utilizing our expertise to bring value and process improvements to your organization.
Streamline your tax operations. Contact us today.
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Qualified Opportunity Zones
Get In The Zone Of Opportunity
Leverage Qualified Opportunity Zones for powerful tax deferral, reduction, and potential elimination. GBQ guides investors in identifying eligible investments, structuring funds, and maximizing benefits under Opportunity Zone regulations to support long-term wealth growth.
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Research & Development
Be Rewarded For Your Business Innovation
Claim valuable R&D tax credits to fuel innovation and reduce your tax burden. GBQ's specialists identify qualifying activities, calculate credits, and secure refunds. As a result, GBQ's dedicated R&D tax professionals help businesses across industries recover substantial savings while minimizing compliance risks.
Wondering how the R&D tax credit can empower your business growth?
- Increase cash flow, earnings per share, and return on investment.
- Create a dollar-for-dollar reduction in your federal and state income tax liability.
- Reduce your effective tax rate.
- Receive up to 12-16 cents of federal and state R&D tax credits for every qualified dollar.
- Create a dollar-for-dollar reduction in your federal and state income tax liability.
- Perform look-back studies to recognize unclaimed credits for open tax years.
- Utilize the federal R&D tax credit against payroll tax.
- Carry forward the credit up to 20 years.
Whether you’re a tech start-up, pharmaceutical developer, product manufacturer, or even a financial services corporation, companies across all industries are taking advantage of the R&D credit to empower growth of their business.
Contact GBQ to unlock R&D tax credit opportunities today.
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Tax Controversy
Tax Controversy Doesn't Have To Be Controversial
Resolve tax disputes with strong representation and advocacy. GBQ's tax controversy experts handle IRS audits, appeals, and litigation, providing strategic defense, negotiation, and resolution to protect your interests and achieve favorable outcomes.
GBQ's state and local tax experts can help your business respond to information requests, communicate with auditors, analyze audit schedules and work papers, negotiate assessment items and liability, and represent your company in administrative appeals.
Defend your position with experienced tax controversy support. Contact GBQ today.
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Transfer Pricing
A Practical Approach To Managing Complex Issues
Ensure compliance and optimize pricing in intercompany transactions with professional transfer pricing services. GBQ delivers planning, documentation, and analysis to align with global regulations, reduce risks, and support efficient cross-border operations.
While your intercompany transactions and respective tax regulations may be complex, our Columbus-based team works with you to find practical solutions to managing transfer pricing issues. GBQ’s team is experienced in designing, implementing, documenting, and defending transfer-pricing policies under US, OECD, and local country regulations. Our goal is to alleviate ongoing frustrations related to inefficient and overly complex transfer pricing policies and documentation strategies, in favor of an approach that is flexible, sustainable, and aligned with your overall tax plan and resources.
No matter the size or complexity of your intercompany environment, GBQ will work with you to customize a transfer pricing approach specific to your needs. Our transfer pricing services include:
Planning & Consulting
- Transfer pricing policy design and refresh.
- Implementation and testing assistance.
- Business changes/expansion considerations.
- Documentation strategy development.
Transfer Pricing Documentation
- U.S. and local country reports.
- OECD Masterfile and local file reports.
- Benchmarking analyses.
- Co-sourcing/staffing support.
- Risk assessment.
- Dispute resolution.
Strengthen your transfer pricing strategy today with GBQ. Contact us for a consultation.
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