Archive for the ‘Tax Lawyer Help’ Category

How to Avoid Conviction of Tax Fraud

Friday, April 2nd, 2010
The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the IRS is charged with investigating offenses under the revenue laws and related offenses. These include a wide variety of tax and nontax crimes. Most prominent of the crimes that CID investigates under the Internal Revenue Code are tax evasion, failure to file, false statements, and forcible interference with [...]

What? You Have Unreported Income?!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Check it out.  The IRS efforts to nab unreported income represents the largest component of tax avoidance and tax fraud.  Look out, because now the IRS has developed a new tool for identifying returns with a high probability of unreported income.  If you hang around these tax lawyer blogs long enough you’ll probably hear of [...]

How We Defend You

Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Your first line of defense is John Ellsworth, tax audit attorney.  John has 35 years of experience dealing with the IRS and has defended every kind of taxpayer and entity over the years. The first thing we’re going to do in your defense is make sure we have the Information Document Request in hand.  This is [...]

Tax Return Preparers

Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Income tax return preparers may be subject to a number of general penalty provisions as well as specific preparer penalties aimed directly at them. Beware getting yourself into a position of having overstated deduction areas repeatedly. You can lose your right to prepare returns if you do. The Internal Revenue Code incorporates a number of [...]

Who Is An Income Tax Return Preparer?

Friday, May 22nd, 2009
An income tax return preparer is any person, including a partnership or corporation, that prepares for compensation all or a substantial portion of any income tax return or income tax refund claim. To be an income tax return preparer, a person must meet the following requirements: l The return or refund claim must have been [...]