Annette M. Ahlers is a partner in Pepper Hamilton LLP’s Tax Practice Group, resident in the Washington office. She concentrates her practice in corporate tax matters for large corporations.

Ms. Ahlers’ work includes: Structuring and advising on the tax aspects of corporate transactions; determining availability of net operating losses; assessing the reporting obligations under the tax shelter rules; and determining tax consequences of companies undergoing a bankruptcy or workout plan.

Ms. Ahlers is a frequent commentator on how new tax rules might affect a corporation’s tax positions and reporting obligations.

Ms. Ahlers joined Pepper in December 2004, from a national law firm, where she was the lead corporate tax partner. Before that she worked for nine years at Ernst & Young, LLP, where she was a national tax partner and director of M&A tax services for the mid-Atlantic area.

Ms. Ahlers started her career as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Chief Counsel (Corporate) of the Internal Revenue Service (1990 to 1994). Her responsibilities included drafting treasury regulations, private letter rulings, technical advice memoranda and other forms of guidance issued by the IRS. While at the IRS, she was the drafting attorney assigned to regulations under IRC Section 108 (nominal or token) and Section 382 (option attribution).

Ms. Ahlers received an LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 1992, her J.D. from California Western School of Law in 1990, and a B.A. in economics and history from the University of Washington in 1987.