Christopher Sam Manes

With over 25 years of experience in California residency tax planning, audits and appeals, Christopher focuses on assisting residents departing California, nonresidents who own California vacation homes and other in-state assets, and e-commerce/high-tech entrepreneurs who can live and work anywhere. His residency-planning practice has produced tax savings in the tens of millions of dollars.

His clientele includes Silicon Valley startups, professional athletes and actors, expatriates working abroad in financial services, retirees from successful careers, founders exiting their companies through a sale or IPO, cryptocurrency investors and traders.

Christopher is an award-winning author whose articles have appeared in such publications as Los Angeles Magazine, Environmental Ethics and Palm Springs Life. He has written several books and was nominated for a LA Times Book Award in science. His articles have won a Maggie Award, a GM Foundation award in medical science, and a Nautilus Award. His investigative cover story for California Lawyer Magazine on probate abuses was read into the Congressional Record during US Senate hearings on elder abuse. He has produced several documentaries, shown at film festivals and excerpted on MTV and 60 Minutes. Christopher has been interviewed and quoted by numerous respected tax and financial publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.

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  Manes Law prepares residency tax plans on a fixed-fee basis only.

California

Since 1993

U.S. Tax Court

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

1992

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Master's Degree

University of California - Los Angeles

B.A.

California State Bar  # 165170

Member

1993 - Current