Don Crawford

Don has advised clients on a variety of controversies including transfer pricing disputes, intangible property valuations, refund litigation, estate litigation, and other domestic and international tax disputes. Don has significant experience advising clients in the technology, consumer goods, and luxury retail industries.

He has advised clients on a variety of clean energy tax credits contained in the Internal Revenue Code, such as clean energy tax incentives, credits for carbon capture, use, and storage, and electric vehicle tax credits.

Don regularly contributes to thought leadership on domestic and international tax issues through publications and guest speaking engagements with leading industry organizations, including the American Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association, and the Tax Executives Institute.

Don also maintains an active pro bono practice. He co-authored a US Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of a nonprofit advocacy organization in a lawsuit arising under the Fourteenth Amendment, litigated multiple civil rights cases on behalf of clients that were deprived of constitutional and civil rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and advised local nonprofit organizations on maintaining tax-exempt status, among other matters.

Don is a proud alumnus of Howard University School of Law.

• AbbVie Inc. & Subs. v. Commissioner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 25-2622 (government appeal dismissed with prejudice, preserving Tax Court judgment in taxpayer’s favor)
• AbbVie Inc. & Subs. v. Commissioner, US Tax Court, No. 2597-23 (dispute concerning capitalization of termination fee under section 1234A)
• Saunders v. Warden, et. al., US District Court for the District of Maryland, No. 1:22-cv-01895 (suit concerning deprivation of constitutional and civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983)
• Facebook, Inc. & Subs. v. Commissioner, U.S. Tax Court, No. 12738-18 (dispute concerning intangible property valuation and treatment of stock-based compensation for purposes of qualified research credit under section 41)
• Facebook, Inc. & Subs. v. Commissioner, US Tax Court, No. 21959-16 (transfer pricing dispute concerning intangible property valuation and temporary cost-sharing regulations)
• Brief for YWCA USA, Girls Inc., Supermajority Education Fund and United State of Women as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 US 215 (2022)

• International Fiscal Association – Member
• J. Edgar Murdock American Inn of Court, U.S. Tax Court - Member
• American Bar Association, Section on Taxation - Member and Vice-Chair, Tax Practice & Technology Committee
• District of Columbia Bar Association - Member