Tom Herman of the Wall Street Journal writes an interesting article titled How To Confess to Being a Tax Cheat and tells guilty-minded taxpayers what to do if they have a tax problem and are not an Obama Cabinet appointee. First, he says, if you know you made a mistake on your tax return you may file an [...]
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In previous blog posts titled Tax Gap Widens Expect IRS to Get Tougher on Non-Compliers and IRS Continues to Step Up Enforcement Efforts, 2007 Statistics Reveal we wrote about the Obama administration’s plan to close the tax gap. Here is what Mike Godfrey of Tax News.Com wrote about the IRS’s plan to close the international portion of the [...]
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For over 20 years we have represented hundreds of clients who have lived for a very long time in abject fear of the IRS. Most of these clients, after we got them back in good standing with the IRS and on an installment plan to pay their back taxes, have told us that they felt like the weight of [...]
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Once an assessment is made against you, your case gets sent to the IRS Collection Division. There are two types of collection agents taxpayers encounter in the IRS collection process: Automated Collection Distributors; and Local Revenue Agents. The Automated Collection System The Automated Collection System was developed in the early 1980′s to allow the IRS [...]
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John Charles Vuckovich v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue – Here the taxpayer sued the IRS for inappropriately filing a federal tax lien against him. The fact pattern is a familiar one: The taxpayer failed to file tax returns and the IRS prepared returns for him based on available evidence. After the expiration of the Notice of Deficiency, [...]
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Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, has released her Annual Report to Congress (PDF). In it she recommends something old and something new: Simplification of the tax code and enactment of measures that will minimize the burden on taxpayers who are struggling to pay their tax bills. Ms. Olson said, “it is imperative for the IRS to consider the circumstances of [...]
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David W. Trout v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue - In 1997, the taxpayer entered into an offer-in-compromise (OIC) with the IRS covering tax years 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1993. The OIC included a term that required the taxpayer to timely file and pay his taxes for the next five years. The taxpayer filed his 1996 tax return [...]
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