John Ormonde advises clients on state and local tax controversy, planning, and policy matters across all types of taxes, including income, franchise, gross receipts, property, and sales and use taxes.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, John was a tax consultant with a Big Four accounting firm in the Multistate Tax Services group and then a partner at a boutique state and local tax law firm in San Francisco. He regularly represented Fortune 500 corporate taxpayers, partnerships, and high-net-worth individuals at the audit level and in administrative appeals, trial courts, and courts of appeal. John also has experience identifying state and local tax refund opportunities and executing refund claims. He has worked with many clients in the asset management, technology, financial, manufacturing, and retail industries.
John is admitted to the State Bar of California and District of Columbia.
- I Left My Heart and Wallet in San Francisco: Reforming the City’s Tax Structure, February 13, 2024, CalTax Foundation webinar
- San Francisco’s Troubled Tax System, December 5, 2023, TEI & IPT Silicon Valley SALT Seminar
- Sourcing Income from Passthrough Entities & Developments Since Metropoulos, November 1, 2023, CalTax Policy Meeting
- State Tax Research Tools, Tips and Tricks, July 24, 2023, NYU Introduction to State and Local Tax Conference
- Important State Tax Legislation in 2023, May 17, 2023, TEI Orange County SALT Day
- Recent Developments in Local Taxes, May 17, 2023, TEI Orange County SALT Day
- SALT Update, November 17, 2022, Northern California Tax Director Group
- Local Tax Update: Small But Mighty, April 21, 2022, TEI Silicon Valley SALT Day
- 2022 SALT Legislative Outlook, May 19, 2022, TEI LA Chapter - SALT
- California
- District of Columbia
- J.D., University of California at Davis School of Law,
Order of the Coif; Senior Notes & Comments Editor, UC Davis Law Review
- B.A., California State University, Chico
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