WuHoover & Co. takes a distinctive approach to tax planning and consulting services. Our professionals have the deep technical knowledge needed both by international businesses coming to the United States or investing overseas, and by local businesses.  This is combined with practical commercial and estate-planning experience, including ongoing tax compliance, creation of tax strategies, and cross-border planning for businesses and high net worth families located in the United States and elsewhere. 

Carefully working within the applicable laws, our primary objective is to maximize opportunities whenever and wherever possible and to minimize a client's overall tax burden.   

The complexity of existing tax codes, and their constant change and modification by the tax authorities, courts, and legislatures, require constant vigilance and scrutiny to ensure that individual and corporate tax strategies retain their effectiveness. We are always available to meet with you to explore tax-planning opportunities and business strategies that result from an ever-changing business environment.

Our tax practice is oriented to the needs of:

- Individual

- Corporation

- Estate and trust

- Limited liability company

- Not-for-profit organization

- Tax-exempt organization

- Employee benefit plans

- Partnership

- S Corporation 

Our tax service offerings, which include both compliance and consulting, are:

• Planning - Each new transaction or decision to begin to do business in the USA or other international locations should involve a review of the tax implications and planning opportunities. 

• Negotiation and representation - We provide assistance and advice in negotiation and audit representation before the IRS, Franchise Tax Board and other State tax  authorities

• International tax - When a business or a high net-worth family has tax exposure in one or more countries, a number of specialized competencies may be required, such as assistance in creating a cross border tax strategy, review of compliance with intercompany transfer pricing rules (including assistance in obtaining an advance transfer-pricing ruling from the IRS as to a pricing policy to avoid uncertainty in the event of an audit), and compliance for both businesses and key executives with US tax rules while they are working in this country.  Each of our clients receives highly personalized attention.  We will sit down with you to understand your business and goals.  From this, we will explore and explain your business tax situation, help you evaluate options, and give you a clear tax plan.  You can call on us whenever you have questions, need advice, or want help with specific tasks.

• Expatriate tax - Our practice helps global companies plan, implement and manage international assignment programs.  We provide a range of service - from basic to strategic - that meets your company needs.

We provide individual assignees with tax preparation and planning services throughout their assignment from the planning stages to repatriation.  We will plan, manage, administer your international assignment programs from inception through any applicable changes necessary to keep your program competitive in the marketplace, up-to-date with global tax issues or in sync with your organization or vision. 

Our services to the assignees include but not limited to the following: 

• Preparation of home country and host country individual income tax returns for your expatriate, foreign nationals and third country national assignees
• Pre-assignment and post arrival consultation
• Calculation of estimated actual and/or hypothetical tax liability and net take-home pay
• Preparation of tax equalization, tax protection, tax reconciliation and tax gross-up calculations
• Assistance in obtaining individual taxpayer identification number

San Mateo Office
1510 Fashion Island Blvd., Suite 200
San Mateo, CA 94404
Phone: (415) 333-0280
Fax: (415) 520-0477
info@wuhoover.com