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How I Help Doctors Get Financially Well

Life Lessons, Medical, Pre-Bankruptcy Planning
How I Help Doctors Get Financially Well

It used to be that a medical degree was a ticket to a relatively secure life: in exchange for spending years achieving at school and amassing formidable learning, and just showing up at your practice for 50 or more hours a week Read more >>

Bankruptcy Is a Form Of Redemption, Not Failure

Bankruptcy, Life Lessons
Bankruptcy Is a Form Of Redemption, Not Failure

I like to say that I am involved in “capitalist recycling.” In a capitalist, free-market society, there are people who win and there are people who lose. Those people who do not win and cannot function economically because of crushing debt Read more >>

What Doctors Taught Me About My Job and My Clients

Life Lessons
What Doctors Taught Me About My Job and My Clients

In the last three years, my wife and I have lost three of our four parents: two parents died of lung cancer, one of Parkinson’s Disease. In each case, I was Read more »

Judge Riblet on the Absolute Priority Rule

BAPCPA, Courts, Lawyering
Judge Riblet on the Absolute Priority Rule

The Absolute Priority Rule is an arcane part of the Bankruptcy Code (see 11 USC § 1129(b)(2)(B)(ii)). It says that, in a Chapter 11 plan, lower classes of creditors cannot be paid anything unless higher classes have either been paid in full Read more >>

Tax Debt Lowered from $513,000 to $30,000!

Audits, Bankruptcy, Business, Tax Collection Issues
Tax Debt Lowered from $513,000 to $30,000!

“Impossible,” you’re probably thinking. But it’s not. Here’s why. My client knew he had $200,000 in tax debt, only $30,000 of which was income tax debt; the remaining $170,000 was Read more »

Lenny Dykstra Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud

Abuse, Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Aftermath, Bankruptcy Procedure, Crime, In the News, Trustee
Lenny Dykstra Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud

He had a great mansion in Lake Sherwood, near Thousand Oaks, but when his financial-services firm fell apart, so did his life. Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra, who went through bankruptcy in 2009 (claiming about $25 million in assets and $37 million in debts), thought he could hide assets Read more >>

Not Even Lindsay Lohan Can Hide From the IRS – Nor Can You

IRS, Taxes in the News
Not Even Lindsay Lohan Can Hide From the IRS – Nor Can You

Lohan’s Tax Troubles The IRS has seized Lindsay Lohan’s bank accounts. It appears that she owes about $233,000 in back taxes. Her buddy Charlie Sheen, who knows something about becoming a public train wreck, gifted Read more »

Why Hiding Information In Bankruptcy Isn’t Good Strategy

Bankruptcy, Lawyering, Trustee
Why Hiding Information In Bankruptcy Isn’t Good Strategy

Attorneys often try to hide a client’s information, disclosing as little as possible. This legal strategy sometimes has comical effects, as in this exchange I heard in a deposition:Read more >>

Filing Bankruptcy If Debtor No Longer Lives in US

BAPCPA, Business, Corporations, Pre-Bankruptcy Planning, Procedure, Trustee
Filing Bankruptcy If Debtor No Longer Lives in US

I had an American client who lived in Europe – Luxembourg, of all places. He moved because his business ventures in the US were going bad. His wife was from Luxembourg, so the family moved close to his in-laws Read more >>

Why We’ll Never See Tax Reform

Policy, Taxes
Why We’ll Never See Tax Reform

I’ve always maintained that Congress will never reform the Tax Code toward simplicity.  Here is a scholarly article that says just that: the power to tax, and to keep changes Read more »

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About John D. Faucher

faucher_law_iconJohn worked for ten years for the Internal Revenue Service defending IRS audits in Tax Court. Since 2008, he has used is knowledge about the IRS (and also California’s Franchise Tax Board, Department of Fee and Tax Administration, and Employment Development Department) to help clients with IRS and California tax agency audits, levies and tax debts. He also represented the IRS in bankruptcies where the IRS was owed back taxes.


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