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Chili Today, Hot Tamale
The Tres Hombres chili team took home first place in the “Meat Division” of the Saint Saviour’s Chili Cook Off last Sunday, February 8, 2015. The team representing Christ Episcopal Church was made up of long time church members Lockhart…
Wooten selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers ...
Louis E. Wooten, III has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 21st edition of The Best Lawyers in America.© Best Lawyers is a listing of 52,488 attorneys selected by their peers based on 5.5 million detailed evaluations…
Wooten Wins Martindale-Hubble Client Distinction ...
Louis Wooten has received the Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction Award. Martindale-Hubbell is the premier lawyer rating service in the country. Martindale-Hubbell gives the Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction Award to those lawyers whose clients give the lawyer a 4.5 average rating (out of…
North Carolina Launches A New Program To Help Individuals Pay Unpaid Income Taxes
The North Carolina Department of Revenue has launched a new program to help individuals pay unpaid income taxes. The program is called the “Individual Income Tax Debt Payment Program.” It is designed to help individuals resolve unpaid taxes and get…
Louis Wooten Named Legal Elite for 2011
Business North Carolina has designated Louis Wooten as a “Legal Elite” for 2011. Since 2002, Business North Carolina magazine has honored Tar Heel lawyers by publishing Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, a listing of the state’s top lawyers in business-related…
Louis Wooten Selected For Inclusion in 2012 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America
The Best Lawyers in America, 2012 Edition, has named Louis Wooten as one of its “Best Lawyers in America: in the areas of Tax Litigation and Controversy, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates. For a quarter century, Best Lawyers has…
Sales and Use Tax Two Step
In the recent case of Technocom v. Department of Revenue, 2011 NCBC 1, the North Carolina Business Court addressed the issue of whether a taxpayer may use a sales tax that it previously paid in error as a credit against…
Business North Carolina Designated Louis Wooten as a “Legal Elite” for 2011
Since 2002, Business North Carolina magazine has honored Tar Heel lawyers by publishing Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, a listing of the state’s top lawyers in business-related categories. Winners are chosen not by BNC editors but by the state’s lawyers….
Wooten Wins Rare Tax Appeal
Louis Wooten recently won a rare abatement of the trust fund tax penalty from the IRS. In the case, Wooten’s client was assessed as a responsible person for trust fund taxes accruing over several years, with the latest assessment being…
Wooten Forms New Law Firm
After more than twenty years of practice in both the public and private sectors, Louis Wooten has decided to “hang out a shingle” and open his own law firm. Louis has opened his new practice, Louis Wooten, Attorney at Law,…