Lisa B. Petkun

Lisa B. Petkun is a partner in the Tax Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Ms. Petkun concentrates her practice on sophisticated tax planning on behalf of individuals, partnerships and corporations. Her areas of concentration include choice of business entity, structuring bankruptcy workouts and reorganizations, taxation of lawsuit payments and recoveries, tax issues associated with nonprofit organizations, estate, gift and personal planning, independent contractor compliance, and tax structuring for Marcellus Shale owners.

Ms. Petkun is a co-head of the firm’s Independent Contractor Compliance Practice Group, an interdisciplinary team of more than 25 labor, tax and employee benefits attorneys. She co-publishes a blog on the subject at www.IndependentContractorCompliance.com. She also co-authored “Michigan Limited Liability Company,” which is published by Data Trace Legal Publishers, Inc. Ms. Petkun is a co-author of BNA Tax Management Portfolio, “Charitable Remainder Trusts and Pooled Income Funds” (First Edition).

Ms. Petkun’s recent speaking engagements include:

• “Independent Contractor Compliance Breakfast Briefing: What Tools Are Available to Help You Avoid or Minimize Liability for 1099ers?” jointly presented with BDO, May 16, 2012 (Washington, D.C.), May 23, 2012 (Boston, MA), June 6, 2012 (Berwyn, PA), June 7, 2012 (Philadelphia, PA), June 13, 2012 (New York, NY) and June 14, 2012 (Princeton, NJ)
• “Form Over Substance or Constructive Receipt - What Is the Substance of the Cap Gemini Cases?” BNA Advisory Board Meeting, July 21, 2011 (New York, NY)
• “Preserving Tax-Exempt Status,” New Jersey Hospital Association Webinar, February 24, 2011.
• “Independent Contractor Compliance 2010-2011: How to Eliminate or Minimize Misclassification Liability in the Face of Heightened Risks of Using Independent Contractors,” jointly presented with Kelly Services, Inc., January 2011 (Detroit and Pittsburgh); and jointly presented with Marcum LLP Accountants and Advisors, November 2010 (Boston), (New York City, Philadelphia, Princeton, and Berwyn, PA) July 2010.

Ms. Petkun has published a number of articles, including:

• “Federal Appeals Court Holds That Supplemental Unemployment Compensation Benefits Are Not ‘Wages’ Subject to FICA Taxation, Creating Circuit Split” (co-author), Shopping Center Legal Update, Vol. 33 Issue 1, Spring 2013
• “Form Over Substance or Constructive Receipt – What Is the Substance of the Cap Gemini Cases?” (co-author), BNA Tax Management Memorandum (Vol. 52, No. 22 October 24, 2011)
• “The IRS Has Revoked Tax-Exempt Status of More Than 275,000 Organizations,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Tax Update, July 2011
• “The Payroll Fraud Prevention Act: New Congressional Bill Seeks to Crack Down on Independent Contractor Misclassification,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Client Alert, April 2011
• “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 Reduce Tax Imposed on Certain Asset Sales by S Corporations in 2010 and 2011,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Tax Update, October 2010
• “Beginning in 2012, New 3 Percent Withholding Applies to Medicare Payments,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Health Care Law Alert, October 2010
• “Fair Playing Field Act of 2010 Would End ‘Safe Harbor’ for Businesses Misclassifying Employees as Independent Contractors,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Client Alert, September 2010
• “Recent TAM on a Sport Association’s UBTI Finds Acceptable Split of Income and Employee Activity,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Tax Update, May 2010
• “Bill Addresses Independent Contractor Misclassification,” National Law Journal, May 24, 2010
• “Tax Benefits in Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010,” Pepper@Work, April 2010
• “Pepper Lawyers Victorious on Behalf of Quality Stores,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Bankruptcy Client Alert, March 2010
• “Bill Would Allow Pennsylvania Municipalities to Tax Real Estate Owned By Charities,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Tax Alert, December 2009
• “L3Cs: A New Type of Entity,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Tax Update, July 2009
• “Philadelphia Business Privilege Tax as Applied to Nonprofit Organizations,” Pepper Hamilton LLP Tax Alert, February 2009.

Ms. Petkun is a member of the Exempt Organization Committee and the Fiduciary Income Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section, and she is a past chair of its Distributable Net Income, Forms Subcommittee. She has lectured at various tax-related seminars.

Ms. Petkun is a board member of Breastcancer.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete and up-to-date information about breast cancer. She served as chair from 2005-2008.

Education
B.A. 1972, magna cum laude, Case Western Reserve University
J.D. 1975, cum laude, Temple University School of Law; editor, Law Review

Clerkships
1975-77 Law Clerk for the Honorable Raymond J. Broderick of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania