Note: The case involved here is very complex. But that’s the point: it dominated and nearly ruined the lives of my clients for a decade, until I used bankruptcy law to end their nightmare. Read more >>
September 18, 2018
A client ran a landscape maintenance company in LA for 30 years. His crew showed up at clients’ houses to mow, blow, and go. My client called his crew “contractors,” to avoid paying payroll taxes. He also didn’t issue Forms 1099 for them. Uh-oh… Read more >>
August 9, 2018
A business owner sent me an email about her tax issues: she owes lots of money, the IRS has filed lien notices, she can’t make her payments. Read more >>
February 23, 2018
Americans who work overseas are entitled to exclude $80,000 of annual income from their tax return. It’s called the “foreign earned income exclusion.” Read more >>
January 19, 2018
The private collectors are not as well trained as IRS employees, and generally violate taxpayer rights much more often than the federal employees. Read more >>
May 30, 2017
My client’s shaking, horrified. She lied on her tax return and worries the IRS will find out when they open the audit. She thinks she’ll end up in handcuffs if she even talks to the IRS. She won’t. But the IRS will be happy that she is scared. Read more >>
May 26, 2017
Most people don’t know that the IRS stops trying to collect on tax debt after 10 years. This 10-year statute of limitations can be valuable to people who owe back taxes from several years ago. Read more >>
May 13, 2017
If you are having problems getting the IRS to understand you, please call me. I can probably help you. I say this because I understand how the IRS works, how its agents think, and the logic of taxation. Read more >>
May 3, 2017
Sometimes a taxpayer makes a seemingly minor technical mistake on his return that ends up with large consequences down the line. Shocking, yes, but it’s been known to occur. Read more >>
May 2, 2017
I love what I do. Intervening on behalf of my clients in tax audits, or helping people shed crippling debt, allows me to (1) draw on prior professional experience at the IRS and elsewhere, Read more >>
May 2, 2017
