Ten thousand jurisdictions.
One point of contact.

Price Certainty

Fees are fixed to the engagement and agreed before work begins, priced to the outcome, not the clock. Work outside scope is quoted before it starts, never billed after. Hourly billing charges for time; this firm prices what the work is worth.

Led by Experience

Every matter is led by a practitioner with two decades in state and local tax, and the client's contact is that practitioner throughout. Work is managed, reviewed, and delivered at that level, and anyone who joins a file works alongside the lead, never in a silo.

Integration

A nexus study is a photograph of a moving object. A law changes, a policy shifts, one remote hire, one line on a job posting, and the answer moves. The firm delivers the analysis, then stays integrated to keep it true: nexus, registrations, and good standing monitored for the life of the relationship.

Continuity

The person on the matter today is the person on it next quarter and next year. No handoffs, no re-briefing, no file that six different professionals have touched. The firm is built so the relationship does not churn.

Positions that Hold

Judgment taken when the authority is thin, and documented so it survives examination, written to be read later, by an examiner, an appeals officer, or a buyer's diligence.

Companies

The multistate work that never reaches the top of the list (nexus, registrations, thresholds, upkeep), advised on and done, so it comes off the desk and stays off.

Professional Firms

A full state and local tax bench delivered under the referring firm's engagement, with sales and use tax capability ready for the demand economic nexus created.

International

A tax treaty binds the United States. It does not bind the states. State obligations for foreign companies entering the US, established before they compound.

Individuals

Residency and domicile: whether a state may tax all income or only what is sourced to it, and the record that decides the question.

The firm was formed to answer a specific problem. At regional and local accounting firms, including independent firms affiliated with national networks, the client obligations are the same as at a national firm, but the state and local tax function is frequently one person. That person is also carrying the federal return, the provision, the notices that continue to arrive, and a filing deadline in a week. The questions that reach a specialist from that seat are rarely the most technical ones; they are tactical and urgent, and they compound quickly when nobody has the time to look at them. The same is true inside multistate companies, where state and local tax is one line on one person's job description. This is the work most easily deferred by a department of one, which is why it tends to surface as a crisis rather than a task, especially when it involves a trust tax like sales and use tax.

G&G does this work directly, the tactical and the technical, for companies with a multistate footprint and for the firms that serve them. The firm works as an extension of the client's existing tax function, engaged on retainer or by project, delivered at senior level without handoff to junior staff. All work is performed in the United States by the firm; client data is secured and maintained in the United States, under the firm's direct control, with no offshore access.

Edvin Givargis has practiced state and local tax since 2008, after beginning in 2006 in federal partnership compliance for owner-managed businesses and clients in real estate investment and development. He has advanced through manager, senior manager, principal, partner, and managing director at national and regional firms, and was twice appointed to serve as an internal technical resource, the role tasked with answering the questions other practitioners could not resolve on their own. That work builds a particular skill: knowing how to take a position when the authority is genuinely thin, and how to document it so it holds.

His practice has run across income and franchise tax, sales and use tax, excise tax, and property tax, for closely held partnerships and S corporations, publicly traded and mid-market corporations, and multi-tiered structures, in industries including real estate, asset management, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, construction, and retail.

Controversy has been constant. He has represented taxpayers through audit, protest, appeal, settlement, and refund claim before the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, the Office of Tax Appeals, and the equivalent authorities and appeal forums in other states. That record includes a formal residency appeal before the Office of Tax Appeals and a settlement negotiated with the Legal Division of the Franchise Tax Board on a residency matter carrying significant exposure. California residency is a recurring subject of his practice, and one he has taught and presented on at length.

He taught graduate taxation as an adjunct professor from 2016 to 2020, including seminars in federal tax planning and multistate taxation and thesis supervision in a Master of Science in Taxation program. He built and taught a national advanced state and local tax curriculum, co-chaired a national tax faculty symposium, and has spoken at the Tax Executives Institute on nexus and the reinterpretation of Public Law 86-272, on flow-through issues for corporate partners, and on indirect taxation in a rapidly evolving digital economy.