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 >>
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Beware of Slick Promises to Get IRS Penalties Waived
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,” Read more »
Tax Resolution Firms: Do Your Homework!
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. Her CPA recommended Read more »
Military Contractors Working Abroad Taxed Unfairly
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.” It’s found at Section 911 of the Read more »
The Idiocy of Privatizing IRS Tax Debt Collection
The private collectors are not as well trained as IRS employees, and generally violate taxpayer rights much more often than the federal employees.
Could I Go to Jail For Lying On My Taxes?
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 Read more »
IRS Tax Debt Ten-Year Clock
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 Read more »
Taxation is Extortion . . . and I Can Help You
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 Read more »
IRS Private Letter Rulings
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 >>
A Dream Job
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 >>