Samantha Trencs counsels clients on a wide range of state and local tax matters. Samantha’s practice focuses on tax planning, policy, and controversy in virtually all areas of state and local taxation, including income, franchise, sales and use, and property taxes. Her practice also includes advising on multistate audits and litigation matters.
Samantha has deep policy experience, including tracking and monitoring tax legislation and ballot measures to provide in-depth analysis on legislative developments and their impact on Fortune 100 companies. Samantha also has wide-ranging experience researching and analyzing complex sales and use tax issues, including regularly analyzing the applicability of state marketplace collection laws, sales tax holidays, and sales and use tax registration, as well as conducting fifty state taxability studies on key SALT issues.
Concentrations
• Managing audits
• Responding to information document requests
• Drafting pleadings
• Administrative protests
• Voluntary disclosure agreements
• ASC450 impact
• Tax credits and incentives
• Multistate taxability analysis
• Legislative tracking and analysis
• Legislative drafting
Experience
Teaching Experience
• Adjunct Professor of State and Local Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 2022-Present
Internships
• Corporate Law Clerk, Carolina Panthers, 2012-2013
Recognition & Leadership
Professional & Community Involvement
• Member, American Bar Association, 2013-Present
o Member, Taxation Section, 2013-Present
• Member, DC Bar
o Member, Taxation Section 2017-Present
• Member, South Carolina Bar
o Member, Taxation Section 2017-Present
• Low Income Taxation Clinic Law Clerk, Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, 2013-20214
