Law Office of Andrew L. Gradman, APC

Education and Affiliations

• NYU SCHOOL OF LAW, LL.M. in Taxation, 2016.
• NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Certificate in Law & Business.
• COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL, J.D., 2011.
• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, B.A. (History), 2006.

State bar: California (2011); Nevada (2019).
Certified Tax Specialist, California Board of Legal Specialization

Publications

Articles about Opportunity Zones have asterisks**.

• Journal of Taxation of Investments
  • A Call for IRS Guidance on the Information Corporations Give Shareholders to Show That Stock Is QSBS.
• Tax Notes Federal
  
  • **How Forgiving Recapture Gain Turns QOZs into Tax Shelters. 11/25/19.
  • **Incremental OZ Reform Could Be a Step Backward. (letter to the editor) 5/9/22.
  • The IRS (or Congress) Should Clarify When Structured Installment Sales Will Be Respected. (letter to editor) 12/20/24.
• Tax Notes State
  • **Opportunity Zone Planning When Penalties are a Certainty. 7/11/22.
• ABA Tax Times
  • Miranda Stewart, Tax and Government in the 21st Century: Book Review and Interview with the Author. With Jonathan Grossberg. 09/25/23.
  • The Case For Letting Taxpayers Buy Ivermectin with Health Savings Accounts. 03/09/23.
• Bloomberg Insights
  (This publisher often makes my words incomprehensible. They should use this disclaimer: "This article may not reflect the opinion of the publisher or the author.")
  
  
  • IRS Can Fix Tax Trap for Unwary With Timely Qualified Appraisal. 11/9/23. With Matthew Rapaport and Sam Brady.
  • Anonymous Letter to IRS Lays Out Defense of Malta Pension Plans. 9/11/23.
  • Deferring Tax with IRC 453, Without Crossing the Line. 5/2/22.
  • **Using a Qualified Opportunity Fund to Invest in non-QOZ Property. 03/15/22.
  • Cannabis Taxpayers Find Flaws in New Section 471(c) Regs. With AB FinWright, LLP. 03/11/21
  • Hidden Tax Dangers in Cannabis Outsourcing Arrangements. With AB FinWright, LLP. 09/15/21
• Bloomberg Tax Journals
  • Negative Capital Freezes and Subchapter K. Real Estate Journal; Estate, Gifts, & Trusts Journal, 10/19/22.
  • The Installment Method: Misuses that Make Me Lose Sleep. Real Estate Journal, 05/18/22.
  • **What Good is OZ Reporting if We Don’t Agree on the Goals? Real Estate Journal, 03/16/22.
  • Family Offices Allow (Some) Taxpayers to Deduct Investment Related Expenses. Estates, Gift, and Trusts Journal, 03/12/20. With Alan S. Gassman et al.
• Leimberg Information Services, Inc.
  • Avoiding the Trustee's "Personal Liability" for Estate Taxes. Newsletter, 03/11/2025.
• California Tax Lawyer (Publication of the California Lawyers Association - Taxation Section)
  • **Personal Goodwill For New QO Funds, Business Goodwill For Old Ones: IRS May Cry “Whipsaw".  February 2022. 
• CEB Reporters
  • QSBS Letters: Best (and Worst) Practices. Business Law Reporter. March 2022.
  • Avoiding California Taxation: Considerations for Individuals Currently Domiciled in the State. Business Law Reporter. July 2021.
  • Trustee's Personal Liability for Estate Taxes. Estate Planning & California Probate Reporter. November 2021.
  • Real Estate Tax Tips During Coronavirus. Real Property Law Reporter. May 2020.
  • Coronavirus Legislation Contains Employment Tax Relief, and Mixed Messages. Business Law Reporter. July 2020.
  • California Taxation (Sep. 2020) Case Summary. 42 Cal. Bus. L. Rep. 2
• LA Daily Journal
  • If you squander this once-in-a-lifetime chance to make tax-free gifts, you're not a bad person. 11/02/21.
  • **QOZ projects have ‘up to’ 24 more months due to COVID-19. 03/19/20. With Michael Wiener.
  • **Treasury Releases Long-Awaited QOZ Regulations. 04/19/19. With Neda Barkhordar.
  • Should You Change Your Accounting Method? An Emerging Cannabis Loophole. With AB FinWright, LLP. 06/16/20
• Quoted in
  • Wall Street Journal, IRS Says Tax-Free Maltese Pensions Are Too Good to Be True. 12/21/21.
  • Bloomberg, Trump’s Flirtation With a Millionaire Tax Demonstrates Uncertainty Around Bill, 4/28/2025
  • Journal of Taxation, Shop Talk: How Small Can a Partner's Interest Be: Did "Small" Just Get Smaller? Publication Pending. By Sheldon I. Banoff, Richard M. Lipton, and Adam M. Cohen.
• Your Tax Matters Partner blog
  • The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of – The Rise And Fall Of Malta Pension Plans. 02/02/22.
• CEB (CA Continuing Education of the Bar) blog
  • **IRS Releases Generous Guidance for QOZs During Coronavirus Pandemic.
  • **Poking Holes in the Final QOZ Regulations. 01/30/20.
  • Limits on the Installment Method of Accounting for Gain. 10/15/20.
  • California Passes Partial Tax Conformity Bill, Raising More Questions. 10/17/19.
  • Split Roll Ballot Measure Could Scale Back Proposition 13. 10/01/20
  • Employment Tax Relief Under the Families First and CARES Acts. 05/06/20
• 420cpa.com blog
  • The Mechanics of the Cannabis Cultivation Tax in California. 07/24/20. With Abraham Finberg & Rachel Wright. 

• Unpublished 
  • Incentive under the CARES Act to Invest in Capital Intensive Businesses During 2020.
• Update author for publications by CEB (CA Continuing Education of the Bar):
  • Advising California Employers and Employees - chapter 7, “Tax Compliance”
  • Advising California Partnerships - chapter 3, “Tax Considerations on Formation of and Contributions to Partnership” 
  • Advising California Partnerships - chapter 14, “Taxation of Transfers and Terminations of Partnership Interests”
  • Advising California Partnerships - chapter 16, "Dissociation and Transfer of Partnership Interests"
  • Business Buy-Sell Agreements - chapter 3, “Corporate Buy-Sell Agreements”
  • Drafting California Irrevocable Trusts - chapter 14, “Grantor Retained Income Trusts (GRITs)"
  • Drafting California Irrevocable Trusts - chapter 15, “Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs)”
  • Organizing Corporations in California - chapter 1, "Considerations Before Incorporation"
  • Organizing Corporations in California - chapter 2A, “Conversions and Mergers”
  • Trade Secrets Practice in California - chapter 15, "Taxation of Trade Secrets"
• Comments to proposed Treasury regulations
  • REG-116610-20, "Regulations Governing Practice Before the Internal Revenue Service": Submitted my own comment, and contributed to the comment by the American Bar Association
  • REG-109348-22, “Identification of Monetized Installment Sale Transactions as Listed Transactions”: comment
  • REG-120186-18, Investing in Qualified Opportunity Funds, comment and comment

Presentations (incomplete list)

I have given dozens of presentations from 1-3 hours to various audiences, including law firms; client groups; CalCPA local chapters; and networking groups. These include:

1. “IRS Issued Proposed Regs for Monetized Installment Sales”, ABA Section of Taxation, San Francisco, January 2024
2. “Employee Retention Credits: Overview and Audit Risks”, ABA Section of Taxation, San Francisco, January 2024
3. “Intermediary Installment Sales”, Beverly Hills Bar Association, June 2024
4. Presented my paper, “Proposal to Combat Monetized Installment Sales and Similar Abuses by Requiring Continuity of Business Enterprise in § 15A.453-1” - 2025 CA Lawyers Association DC Delegation
5. **Presented my paper, “Opportunity Zone Planning When Penalties Are a Certainty” (see above) as part of the 2022 California Lawyers Association DC Delegation.
6. Presented my paper, "Proposed Revenue Procedure to Standardize the Information Corporations Give Shareholders to Show that Stock is QSBS" (see above) as part of the 2023 California Lawyers Association DC Delegation.
7. “Installment Sales.” Portland Tax Forum, April 2022.
8. Several presentations recorded by CA Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB).  **Example.
9. Several presentations recorded by CalCPA, e.g. on NOLs (handout) and **QOZs (handout).
10. Overcoming Opportunity Zone Working Capital Safe Harbor Challenges, with Catherine Bazley (Cherry Bekaert)
11. How to Plan an Effective Exit in Opportunity Zone Investing. October 30, 2024.
12. Tax Benefits for Real Estate Professionals. June 4, 2025. (Handout)
13. Where do Loopholes Come From? 08/28/20 (Podcast - McKenna Brink)
14. Too Good To Be True Tax Strategies, WealthChannel, 09/27/23.
15. How to Understand, Mitigate, and Defend Tax Penalties 10/12/21 (PodCast - Tax Girl)
16. California Prop 19: A (Slightly Technical) Introduction 12/26/20 (solo presentation)
17. **Seminar re QOZs 11/10/21 (with Lerman Law Partners)
18. Guest lecturer for David Rice for accounting students, Cal Poly Pomona (3 hours).
19. **Novogradac Spring 2022 Opportunity Zones Conference (“Structuring Insights” panel)
20. **7 Common Mistakes Made By OZ Investors. OpportunityDB. 6/14/22.
21. QSBS Slides - presented to Tax Masters (Provisors)