Profile

Stewart Weintraub’s practice has centered on taxation for more than 40 years. He helps clients plan and structure transactions so that all state and local tax obligations are minimized. He represents clients in all aspects of state and local tax compliance and litigation, from audits through trials and appeals to the appellate courts.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Weintraub was Chief of Tax Litigation for the City of Philadelphia’s Law Department, during which he also served as Chief Counsel of the Mayor’s Tax Reform Commission. In 2003, he was appointed to serve as a member of the new Tax Reform Commission created by the Home Rule Charter.

Areas of Experience

• Represented distributors of malt and brewed beverages in challenges to their obligations to pay school and business taxes.
• Served as advisory counsel of record in local tax litigation involving a life insurance and title insurance company.
• Represented real estate developers in property and business tax appeals.
• Represented multistate corporations in litigating whether they have taxable nexus in the City of Philadelphia or the Commonwealth of PA.
• Represented clients in all other areas of state and local taxes including apportionment, business/nonbusiness disputes, etc.

Community Activities

• Tau Epsilon Rho Law Society, Brandeis Law Society Member, Executive Committee, 1984 to 2011
• Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Metropolitan Philadelphia Advisory Board,1976-2002
• American Jewish Congress, Board of Directors 1989-2002, Pennsylvania Region President, 2000-2003
• Philadelphia Flag Day Association, Board of Directors,1977-1993
• Cherry Hill High School East Mock Trial Team Coach, 1990-2004, National Champions, 1998
• Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission, Member, 2003
• Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Chair, State and Local Tax Committee, 1983 to date
• Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors,1991-1999
• Cherry Hill Mayor’s Economic Development Advisory Council,1993
• Temple Law Alumni Association, Member, 1971, Executive Committee, 1996 to date, President, 2001-2003
• Founding member,  Jewish Social Policy Action Network, 2003; member of Board of Directors and General Counsel, 2003 to date
• President, Jewish Policy Foundation of Pennsylvania, 2004 to date

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association, member since 1971; for Section on Taxation’s Committee on State and Local Taxes: Vice-Chair of Operations, 2005; Vice-Chair, 2007; Chair, 2009; elected Tax Section Council Director, 2013-2016
• Pennsylvania Bar Association, member since 1971
• Philadelphia Bar Association, member; Board of Governors, 1997-1999; Tax Section Council,2004-2006 and 2013; Section Secretary/Treasurer, 2006-2010
• Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, member since 1996
• Wolters Kluwer Legal Tax Advisory Board, 2013

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