Jaye A. Calhoun

Jaye Calhoun is a member in the firm's New Orleans office. She has served as Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association Section on Taxation in 2004-2005, and is currently the Chair of the New Orleans Bar Association Tax Law Committee. Jaye is a member of the Executive Committee of the State and Local Tax Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Taxation. Jaye is SALT's Chair of the Government Submissions & Legislative White Paper Subcommittee. She is Board Certified in Tax and Estate Planning and Administration by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization, and is a former attorney for the Internal Revenue Service.

Jaye has spoken to numerous professional and community groups on tax-related issues and has been featured on WWL radio as a tax law expert. She is a frequent contributor to professional publications and has served as the Louisiana editor of the American Bar Association's "State and Local Tax Lawyer" and has contributed to Lexis-Nexis “Practice Insights” on Louisiana law. Jaye has co-authored several books on taxation and dealing with tax agencies and has written numerous articles on recent developments in taxation. Jaye is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School where she teaches a course in state and local taxation.

Jaye’s practice in the business section focuses on state and local taxation and regulatory issues, nonprofit and health-care related tax issues, Louisiana state film tax credits, estate planning and planned giving, business planning and formation as well as tax audits and tax litigation.

As Chair of the Task Force on Business Activity Taxes and Nexus of the ABA Section of Taxation State and Local Tax Committee, Jaye served as Editor-In-Chief of a special report, published in the ABA Tax Lawyer (State and Local edition) in 2009, addressing the issues involved in state and local government imposition of business activity taxes on nonresident businesses.