Faculty Profile: Brett Carter

Brett is a founding partner in Carter Shelton, PLC, a boutique tax law firm in Nashville, Tennessee. Brett represents clients in state and local tax disputes involving all Tennessee taxes, including sales and use tax, franchise and excise tax, property tax, and business tax. Brett's clients span numerous industries, including cable, telecom, technology, manufacturing, financial services, transportation, entertainment, hospitality, healthcare, insurance, retail, and construction. Brett has significant experience in tax litigation, mergers and acquisitions, leasing transactions, airplane transactions, nexus, Tennessee tax exemptions (including the manufacturing exemption), state tax incentives, voluntary disclosures, and tax enforcement matters. Brett also advises companies on the taxation of computer software,in light of emerging technologies and the use of cloud computing. Brett has also developed a broad following for his use of social media to track state and local tax matters as the Tennessee Tax Lawyer--@TNTaxLawer.