John Pontius
Resolution of sensitive and serious tax problems.Attorney John Pontius is the founder of Pontius Tax Law, PLLC with offices in Washington, DC and in Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Pontius represents individual and business clients with sensitive and serious tax matters before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. Mr. Pontius regularly advises clients with complex tax issues in the following areas: FBAR examinations, offshore disclosures, FATCA, tax planning, unfiled tax returns, release of tax liens and levies, trust fund recovery penalty, IRS and state audit examinations as well as Appeals, penalty abatement, US Tax Court litigation along with defense of tax fraud and tax evasion. Before opening his firm in 2017, Mr. Pontius worked for seven years at tax controversy firms in Maryland and in the international corporate tax group of KPMG LLP in Virginia. In 2006, he began his legal career as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Army.
- Tax Law
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
- Maryland
- Georgetown University Law Center
- LL.M. (2010) | Tax
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- Widener University Commonwealth Law School
- J.D. (2004) | Law
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- Gettysburg College
- B.A. (2002) | Economics
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- Tax Rising Star: 2015-2019
- Super Lawyers
- Rising Stars are the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in Maryland who are 40 years old and younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less.
- Maryland State Bar Association, Inc. # 56428
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- American Bar Association
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- Federal Bar Association
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- Montgomery County Bar Association
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- Long Hours, and They Aren’t All Billable
- by Zoe Sagalow, Tax Notes
- Updates on Denial or Revocation of U.S. Passports for Seriously Delinquent Tax Debtors
- Tax Talk, Tax Section of the Maryland State Bar Association
- Comments Regarding the OVDP and Streamlined Procedures to the IRS Acting Commissioner Kautter
- ABA Tax Section
- Individual Income Tax Consequences of the Affordable Care Act
- Newsletter, Bar Association Of Montgomery County
- What Every Attorney Needs to Know About Tax Liens
- Tax Talk, Tax Section of the Maryland State Bar Association
- How to be prepared for an IRS audit
- Newsletter, Bar Association Of Montgomery County
- Foreign Bank Account Reporting Extends Beyond Switzerland
- Bar Bulletin, Maryland State Bar Association
- A Guide for Worker Classification
- Newsletter, Bar Association Of Montgomery County
- Procedures to Stop an IRS Levy
- Newsletter, Bar Association Of Montgomery County
- Demystifying IRS Letters While Resolving IRS Liens and Levies, Annual Meeting, North Bethesda, MD
- Bar Association of Montgomery County
- Updates on Denial or Revocation of US Passport for Seriously Delinquent Tax Debtors, Washington, DC
- DC Bar
- The Impact of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) on the Taxation of Individuals, Annual Lax Law Conference, Washington, DC
- Federal Bar Association
- Liens, Levies, and Collection Alternatives with the IRS and Maryland, Rockville, MD
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
- Techniques for Maximizing Charitable Giving, Owings Mills, MD
- Maryland Society of Accounting and Tax Professionals
- An Overview of Civil and Criminal Tax Litigation for Accountants, Columbia, MD
- Maryland Chapter of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts
- Getting Tax Documents from Uncle Sam: Tips for the Tax Practitioner, Germantown, MD
- Maryland Society of Accounting and Tax Professionals
