Taxation
Ca. Tax Lawyer VOLUME 34, 2025 ANNUAL ISSUE
Content
- 2024-2025 California Lawyers Association Tax Section Executive Committee
- By the Tax Section Members
- California's Anti-ing Trust Statute Comes With Strange Drafting Choices, Planning Opportunities, Landmines, and Apparent Errors
- Ctl Prize For Excellence In Writing
- Editors' Note: a New Way Forward
- From the Chief Counsels
- Government Contributions To Capital May Still Qualify For Exclusion From State Income Tax
- High Liability
- Inside This Issue
- Local Tax Sharing Agreements: a Constitutional Critique
- Managing Ftb Audits of International Taxpayers
- Message From the Chair
- Minutes From the 2025 Meeting of Eagle Lodge West
- Rational Basis or Broad Discretion: Legal Standards Governing Cdtfa Interpretations
- Table of Contents
- 2025 Annual Award Winners
2025 ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS
Interviewed by Valerie Dickerson
INTERVIEW WITH JEFF VESELY: INSIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ON A DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN TAXATION
Congratulations to Jeff Vesely, recipient of the Benjamin F. Miller award.
Jeff Vesely’s award-winning practice focuses on state and local tax matters, including income, franchise, sales and use, gross receipts and other taxes. His practice consists of administrative and judicial tax litigation, state and local tax planning and transactional work, and he has been named "Lawyer of the Year" four times by Best Lawyers in America. Prior to joining the firm in 1985, Jeff was a tax attorney with Getty Oil Co., the California Department of Justice Tax Division, and the California Franchise Tax Board. He has litigated state and local tax matters throughout the United States, in administrative tribunals, state and federal trial courts, courts of appeal, state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.