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Russell Lawson is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Global Tax Practice Group in Chicago. He provides domestic and international tax planning advice for corporations and pass-through entities. During law school, he participated in the University of Michigan Law School's Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. He also contributed to the Property Tax Appeal Project in Detroit, for which he authored appeals on behalf of city residents to contest unconstitutional property tax assessments.

On 9 December 2022, Treasury and the IRS published final regulations relating to the centralized partnership audit regime. These “2022 Partnership Audit Regulations” generally follow the framework in the proposed regulations on the topic issued on 24 November 2020. Most notably, the 2022 Partnership Audit Regulations provide further guidance and clarification on certain partnership-related items that may be excepted from the centralized partnership audit regime and alternative rules that may apply to such excepted items.