Edvin Givargis

Edvin Givargis founded G&G State Tax Group to advise on state and local tax matters directly, without the layers that separate a client from the person actually handling the file.

He brings state and local tax practice dating to 2006 to that work, including years spent assisting the internal technical functions other practitioners turn to when a question resists resolution: the jurisdictional tax lead group at Deloitte, and the state tax resource network at KPMG. He was first licensed as a certified public accountant in California in 2010 (License No. 107281); the license is currently held in inactive status.

He has taught in the Master of Science in Taxation program at California State University, Fullerton, as an adjunct professor, where his courses included Federal Tax Research and Multistate Taxation, and has presented California residency law to tax faculty from universities across the country at the American Taxation Association's Midyear Meeting.

His practice covers the full arc of a state and local tax controversy: the first contact from a revenue agency, the examination itself, protest and administrative appeal, and negotiation with collections where an assessment has already become final. Alongside the controversy work, he advises on the questions that determine whether a controversy arises at all, including nexus and registration, entity and transaction structuring, and the treatment of software and other digital products across jurisdictions that continue to disagree about them.

He writes the Practice and Procedure library, which sets out how state and local tax matters actually proceed, agency by agency, in the form the questions are usually asked.