Rumit Patel

Rumit brings fifteen-plus years in the US tax landscape to AlignMyTax, and covers the domestic half of what is almost always a two-sided problem. Based in New Jersey, he is the strategic link between US domestic tax strategy and the firm's international planning work.

His practice centres on US domestic tax including multi-state complexity — the nexus, apportionment, and registration questions that surface as soon as a business operates across state lines, and which foreign-owned US entities routinely underestimate. He also handles indirect taxes, including sales and use tax and occupancy tax, and works on mitigating audit risk before it materialises rather than after.

In practice this means that when an inbound structure is being designed, the domestic consequences are considered at the same time as the international ones rather than discovered a year later. That vantage point — long experience in the US system, applied to cross-border fact patterns — is what shapes the tailored advisory the firm offers.

US domestic tax

• Federal compliance for individuals and businesses
• Entity-level planning coordinated with international structure

Multi-state tax

• Nexus determination and state registration obligations
• Apportionment across multiple states
• State consequences of foreign-owned US entities

Indirect taxes

• Sales and use tax
• Occupancy tax

Risk & controversy

• Mitigating audit risk before filing
• Reviewing positions that are likely to attract scrutiny

What surprises foreign businesses expanding into the US?

That "US tax" isn't one system. Federal is only part of it — states set their own rules on nexus, registration, and indirect tax, and an obligation can be triggered without any physical presence at all. Businesses arrive having planned carefully for federal and having not considered state at all.

Where does domestic tax meet international work?

Constantly. An inbound structure that's elegant federally can create state filing obligations nobody priced in. The two sides need to be designed together, which is precisely why the firm is set up the way it is.

What reduces audit risk most?

Consistency. Reporting that matches the actual ownership and activity, filed on time, attracts far less attention than aggressive positions defended after the fact. Most of the value is in the work done before filing, not after a notice arrives.