I own an online business in Colorado with customers all over the country, including California, where I own a vacation home. I retained Mr. Manes to assist me in setting up my business entities so I could work remotely for the California market without becoming a California resident and incurring its high income taxes. Mr. Manes efficiently and effectively assisted me in this goal. He provided superior legal advise for me and me businesses.

I owned a startup software company in Palo Alto that was ultimately purchased by a major tech firm. Mr. Manes assisted me in changing my legal residence from California and organizing my business entities across state lines to minimize California taxation due to the sale and subsequent operations. His counsel involved sophisticated tax planning for the sale and the subsequent contractual obligations in terms of carryover employment (I ran the new division), noncompete clauses, and the new entities I established out of state. I’m not exaggerating when I say the tax savings were in the six figures. Impressive.

I am a nonresident with a vacation home in California and like a lot of nonresidents got audited by California's FTB, claiming I was a resident. Several hundred thousand dollars was at stake. Sanger and Manes's expertise was evident from the start, and audit resulted in a complete victory for me. The firm's handling of my residency tax issues was comprehensive.

Beware - Mr. Chris Manes is unprofessional and rude. I was being nice and just inquiring what he would do for over $10,000-15,000.00 since my mother's estate is only her house. We were discussing his fees and he told me to get someone else if I didn't want to pay him AND HE HUNG UP ON ME. I would not recommend hiring this jerk.