Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
John B Magee
McKee Nelson LLP
1919 M Street, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
US
Tel: (1) 202 775 8671
Fax: (1) 202 775 8586
Email: jmagee@mckeenelson.com
Website: www.mckeenelson.com
Mr Magee focuses on tax controversy and international tax issues, including transfer
pricing. He has extensive experience in all aspects of income tax planning, Internal
Revenue Service administrative proceedings, and tax litigation. Mr Magee has tried cases
in the US Tax Court, the US Court of Federal Claims, and the US district courts.
Before joining McKee Nelson in January 2000, Mr Magee was a partner in the DC law
firm Miller & Chevalier.
Mr Magee has spoken extensively in a variety of tax forums. He is an adjunct professor
in the graduate tax programme of the Georgetown Law Center, teaching “International
Transfer Pricing: Theory vs Practice”.
Mr Magee received an LLM in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center
in 1977 and a JD in 1972 from the University of Washington School of Law, where he
served on the law review and received the Order of the Coif distinction. He received a
BA from Pomona College in 1966.
Mr Magee has been named one of the world’s leading practitioners in the field of
taxation by Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2001 and
Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2002. He has been listed
in The Best Lawyers in America for the past 10 years.
Representative cases in which Mr Magee has served as either lead counsel or a
principal participant include:
• BF Goodrich Co v United States, Docket No 5:98CV0846 (ND Ohio) (COLI);
• Boeing Co v United States, 98-2 USTC 50,722 (WD Wash 1998), rev’d, 123 S Ct
1099 (2003), aff’g 258 F3d 958 (9th Cir 2001)(DISC/R&D);
• The Dow Chemical Company v United States, 250 F Supp 2d 748 (ED Mich 2003),
appeal pending 6th Circuit;
• Exxon Corp v Commissioner, 66 TCM (CCH) 1707 (1993) (§482, transfer pricing);
• Exxon Corp v United States, 931 F2d 874 (Fed Cir 1991) (bad debts);
• General Electric Co v Commissioner, Tax Ct No 14715-92 (R&D);
• GlaxoSmithKline Holdings (Americas) Inc v Commissioner, 117 TC 1 (2001) (§482
preservation of testimony);
• GlaxoSmithKline Holdings (Americas) Inc v Commissioner, US Tax Court Docket No
005750-04 (§482);
• Host Marriott Corp v United States, 267 F3d 363 (4th Cir 2001)(§172(f)); and
• Weyerhaeuser Co v United States, 92 F3d 1148 (Fed Cir 1996) (timber loss).
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