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Lawyer Up! Unrepresented Taxpayers Likely to Lose in Tax Court

August 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Did you ever wonder why the IRS prevails in trials before the United States Tax Court in 9 out of 10 cases. The more paranoid among us will attribute the IRS’s lopsided success rate to a silent conspiracy between the Court and the government. But the truth is more benign.  More than 80% of all Tax [...]

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