Renuka Somers is the Principal of Somers Tax Law. She is admitted to practice law in Australia and in the United States (New York and Maryland). She is a Chartered Tax Advisor with The Tax Institute, and holds a Master of Law, in Taxation (U.S.) for which she received the J. Ronald Shiff Award for Academic Excellence in Tax.
Renuka’s principal areas of practice are U.S. and Australia federal tax law, IRS remediation, and U.S.-Australian cross-border tax, structuring, and estate planning. She has been published in the American Bar Association’s Tax Times journal, and the Taxation in Australia and The Tax Specialist journals.
Prior to relocating to the United States, she worked in large Australian law firms and international accounting firms. In the U.S. she headed the Australia Tax Desk for a Family Office consulting firm and worked as a senior attorney in the Tax Controversy and Estate Planning divisions of a Washington D.C. area law firm prior to establishing Somers Tax Law in New York. Renuka can be contacted at renuka@somerstaxlaw.com