Breen M. Schiller

Breen M. Schiller is a nationally recognized state and local tax (SALT) attorney with deep experience in SALT planning, audit defense, and complex litigation across multiple tax types, including income, franchise, gross receipts-based taxes, and sales/use taxes, on a multistate basis. She advises a wide range of clients, from privately held mid-size businesses to multinational Fortune 100 corporations, on strategic and practical tax planning and dispute resolution.

Breen’s practice spans a broad spectrum of SALT issues, including nexus determinations, business/nonbusiness income classifications, apportionment and alternative apportionment methodologies, unitary business principles, combined reporting, federal change reporting, and credits and deductions. She also handles a variety of sales and use tax matters, such as exemption qualifications, inclusions and exclusions from the tax base, and issues related to digital products and cloud computing.

She has represented taxpayers at all levels of state and local tax controversy – from administrative proceedings to appellate court arguments – and has wide-ranging experience with audit defense, negotiated settlements, refund claims, and compliance matters. Breen has helped clients secure refunds and obtain key rulings, as well as secure proactive resolutions to matters by leveraging her extensive network of relationships within state departments of revenue.