Elizabeth Prehn
Education
- San Francisco Law School, JD
Court Admissions
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. Federal Court of Claims
- U.S. District Court – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central Districts of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals – Ninth Circuit
- California Supreme Court
Practice Areas
- Tax Law
- International Tax Law
- Criminal Tax Law
- Tax Disputes and Tax Controversy
- Collection Representation
- Business Tax and Reorganization
- Marketing/Business Development
- Outside Counsel Case Coordination
- Estate Administration
Overview
Elizabeth Prehn is a practicing attorney at Moskowitz LLP. With two decades of experience at the firm, Elizabeth has helped hundreds of clients facing tax controversies, investigations, and criminal tax charges. At Moskowitz LLP, she has played a key role in the successful expansion of the firm’s services to clients. Elizabeth is routinely involved with multi-firm matters and coordination.
Experience
Elizabeth Prehn has played an active role in resolving tax matters for firm clients for 20 years. She has experience in handling tax controversy (audits, tax disputes, tax collection), criminal tax matters, (including unfiled tax returns and tax perjury), offshore matters, and witness representation. She also assists with entity revivors and compliance matters, partnership dissolution, business torts, breach of contract, bankruptcy, and malpractice litigation.
Elizabeth has contributed to the firm’s work representing both plaintiffs and defendants in front of administrative agencies, in court, and through mediation and arbitration.
Elizabeth has been active on a number of tax-related committees and bar associations. She has served as co-coordinator for the San Francisco Tax Club Tax and volunteers for the Justice and Diversity Center’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic of San Francisco.
Insights
Elizabeth Prehn has written articles on tax law for industry and legal publications. She also co-authors and manages the firm’s tax law blog, which receives more than a hundred thousand visits per year. Recent work includes:
Legal and industry publications:
- Author, Virtual Currency – Is it an Answer to Dispensary Banking Problems? Digital Currency Council, March 2015.
- Author, Taxation of Convertible Virtual Currency, three part series, Virtual Currency Today, 2014
Firm blog:
- Record Keeping for Businesses, October 2021
- Account Reconciliation: What What To Do If Your Tax Records Are A Mess, September 2021
- What to Do If You Receive Notice of A Tax Audit, January 2021
- California’s “Exit Tax” Explained, November 2020
- End-Of-Year Tax Planning Strategies for Individuals, Families and Businesses, October 2020
Awards & Affiliations
- Member, State Bar of California – Tax Section
- Member, American Bar Association – Tax Section
- Member, ABA Criminal Tax Penalties Committee
- Member, Bar Association of San Francisco
- Member, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice