Kenneth D. Alderfer provides tax advice to clients on transactions, tax controversy matters, strategic planning, and legislation and regulations. Mr. Alderfer also counsels clients on nonprofit corporation law and other legal issues affecting nonprofit corporations.
Mr. Alderfer is particularly active in providing a broad spectrum of tax and corporate advice to various tax-exempt organizations, including hospitals and other entities in the health care industry, Native American tribal governments, religious organizations, private foundations and trade associations. His tax-exempt organization representations include seeking rulings and determinations from tax authorities, structuring and negotiating transactions, providing strategic tax advice regarding activities in the United States and in foreign countries, and representing clients in tax controversies with federal, state and local taxing authorities.
Mr. Alderfer’s tax controversy representations include several IRS Coordinated Examination Program audits and tribal government tax-exempt bond audits. He has also advised several religious organizations in restructuring their U.S. and certain international operations. Mr. Alderfer also has broad experience assisting clients with other corporate, partnership, individual and general tax matters.
Mr. Alderfer is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bars, the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, and the Tax and Finance Section of the American Health Lawyers Association. He has written in trade publications on structuring investments and unrelated business income tax aspects of investments by tax-exempt organizations.
Mr. Alderfer received his B.S. magna cum laude from Eastern Mennonite University in 1979 and his J.D. in 1986 from the University of Virginia, where he served as the research editor of the Virginia Tax Review. Prior to entering law school, he worked for several years as a certified public accountant with a public accounting firm.