Erika Labelle is a member of the firm’s Tax Advice and Controversy Client Service Group and Tax Exempt & Charitable Planning Team. Her practice focuses on issues related to tax-exempt organizations. Her experience involves advising public charities and private foundations on a variety of legal issues, including qualification for exempt status, public charity and supporting organization classification, private inurement, unrelated business tax, self-dealing, and political activities. Her practice also includes securing tax-exempt status for title-holding companies and social welfare organizations. Ms. Labelle has also assisted with the conversion from private foundation to public charity and has successfully represented several tax-exempt organizations before the Internal Revenue Service in connection with the removal of penalties and excise taxes.