About The Firm

The Tufts Law Firm, PLLC was founded by T. Scott Tufts, the principal member of the firm. The firm is focused on legal representation in the following primary practice areas: abusive tax shelters (detection and analysis), business divorces and estate disputes, partners in peril (agreement assessment and review, plus partnership tax vehicle disputes), tax consultation and advice, tax litigation and representation before the IRS and worker classification.

Mr. Tufts is a Board Certified Tax Lawyer of The Florida Bar. Mr. Tufts holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Florida State University, a J.D. degree from Wake Forest University School Law and a LL.M. degree in taxation from the University of Miami. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina and Florida, before the Internal Revenue Service and in the United States Tax Court.

Mr. Tufts has over 15 years of working at firms that focused on transactional planning, primarily in the areas of estates, business and tax planning. He has represented taxpayers in Federal court, as well as in matters before the United States Tax Court. During this time, he has spoken extensively on issues pertaining to LLCs, LLPs, LLLPs (i.e., partnership tax vehicles) and served on the estate planning subcommittee of the Florida Bar Tax Section's task force (headed by Greg Marks) that proposed the new Florida Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2005. Mr. Tufts has written extensively in the area of abusive tax shelter and on partnership tax vehicles, as well as on TEFRA partnership litigation.