Ronson Shamoun
Principal and CEO, RJS Law
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone (619) 595-1655
Property Types
Retail
Markets
San Diego
Bio
Ronson “Ronnie” Shamoun is a tax controversy attorney with over twenty years of tax experience including thirteen years in legal practice. Mr. Shamoun has helped thousands of clients find solutions to their civil and criminal tax matters.
He has been honored by many different organizations for a variety of awards over the past few years, most recently he was recognized as a 2017 University of San Diego School of Law Distinguished Alumni. This prestigious designation is the highest honor bestowed upon alumni and only 77 people have received this designation since the awards inception in 1977. In addition, Mr. Shamoun was named a 2017 Best of the Bar by the San Diego Business Journal and a 2017 Top Lawyer by San Diego Magazine. Additionally, in 2016 he was honored as a Best Attorney by San Diego Metro Magazine, by the San Diego Business Journal as Best of the Bar, and as a Top Lawyer by San Diego Magazine. Because of his stellar client reviews and recommendations from other attorneys in the community, in 2014 Avvo.com awarded him with the Client’s Choice award in all of his practice areas: tax, business, trusts, and real estate. In 2013, he was named a Top Young Influential and a Top Tax Attorney by the San Diego Daily Transcript, a Top Lawyer by San Diego Magazine, and a Top Lawyer in California by American Lawyer Media. In 2013, and every year thereafter, he has received the prestigious AV Preeminent rating from Martindale Hubbell, an award which recognizes an attorney’s excellence in legal ability and ethical practice, for which he is deeply grateful. RJS LAW has also won many awards as a firm including being named a finalist in the small business category for the Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, presented by the Better Business Bureau of San Diego, Imperial, and Orange Counties in 2014, as well as winning the honor of being called one of San Diego’s Most Admired Companies from San Diego Metro Magazine in 2014, and as a Family Owned Business Finalist by the San Diego Business Journal during the same year. The firm was also given the title of Business of the Year by the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce in 2013.
Mr. Shamoun’s practice involves federal and state taxation with an emphasis in criminal tax defense, tax controversy, real estate, corporate law, and estate planning. Mr. Shamoun has extensive experience in representing individuals and businesses before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), the California Employment Development Department (EDD), and the California State Board of Equalization (SBOE). The size of the individual amounts in controversy that Mr. Shamoun has either settled or litigated with the IRS and state tax agencies have ranged from a few thousand dollars to over $300 million dollars in other cases. Mr. Shamoun has also successfully defended numerous clients against criminal prosecutions by the federal government and the State of California. Mr. Shamoun has also successfully defended numerous clients against criminal prosecutions by the federal government and the State of California. He has experience in the defense of white-collar crimes, IRS whistleblower cases, money laundering, bank secrecy violations, securities fraud, insider trading, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, public corruption, financial institution fraud, and more.
He has a sterling reputation with the United States Attorney’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office in multiple jurisdictions, and his firm has a reputation among the taxing entities for being steadfast advocates on behalf of their clients. Mr. Shamoun also served as general counsel for a regional supermarket conglomerate with thirteen stores and was responsible for overseeing legal issues for over eight hundred employees. He is a frequent legal commentator for many media outlets including Fox 5 News, ABC Channel 10 News, KUSI News, and NBC 7 News in San Diego. He is also a frequent contributor to the San Diego Union Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal as a Tax Expert.
Mr. Shamoun is a true San Diegan. He was born and raised in San Diego, California, and completed all of his undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate studies at the University of San Diego (USD), earning a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Accountancy at USD, his Juris Doctor (J.D.), and his Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) degree from USD. While attending USD, Mr. Shamoun was one of the founding fathers of the USD Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. As of August 2015, Mr. Shamoun is an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law. His Tax Practice and Penalties class is now a required course to obtain a Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.). Additionally, 2016 is the Inaugural USD School of Law – RJS LAW Tax Controversy Institute at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. This Institute strives to be the premier tax controversy event in Southern California, bringing together the region’s top tax
