Printable FormatRobert C. Scutt
Member
Mr. Scutt is a member of the firm. He practices in the Corporate and Tax Law Practice Groups and Health Care Industry Team. He provides legal counsel to health care providers, charitable foundations, shared service organizations and cooperatives, and to non-profit and for-profit employers with respect to pension and other employee benefit programs. Mr. Scutt has extensive experience in nonprofit corporate reorganizations, taxable subsidiaries and joint ventures, physician recruitment and incentive arrangements, unrelated business income tax issues, and health care fraud and abuse matters.
Mr. Scutt’s legal practice also focuses on general corporate and personal tax planning and tax controversy issues related to tax exempt organizations, including charitable giving, New York sales tax requirements, tax exempt financing, employee benefit and pension plans, and federal credit unions. He also handles charity registrations and annual reporting requirements and deferred compensation, severance, and split dollar life insurance arrangements.
Professional & Community Activities
Mr. Scutt is a member of the New York State Bar Association and The American Health Lawyers Association. He is a frequent lecturer on health care corporate issues, including the taxation issues surrounding reorganizations. He was co‑author of the article, “Shared Service Alternatives Offer Flexibility and Tax Benefits,” in Healthcare Financial Management and has spoken at various seminars, including a New York State Bar Association program on “Transactions Among Health Care Providers.”
