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Wall Street Journal Agrees with Me: IRS Needs More $!

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Wall Street Journal Agrees with Me: IRS Needs More $!

Readers of my blog know I frequently berate Congress for having cut the IRS’ budget while dramatically increasing its workload in the past decade. But here’s the politically conservative Wall Street Journal, letting us know how the IRS’s woes are encouraging tax evasion. Read more »

2021 Was Horrible for IRS Responsiveness: 2022 Will Be Worse

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2021 Was Horrible for IRS Responsiveness: 2022 Will Be Worse

The IRS’s 2021 responsiveness has been rightfully  panned . Due to budget constraints, Covid work restrictions for IRS employees, and a huge work increase from administering much of the Economic Recovery Read more »

Cheerleading Biden’s Increased IRS Budget Proposal

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Cheerleading Biden’s Increased IRS Budget Proposal

I enthusiastically applaud President Biden’s proposal to increase the IRS’s budget by $1.2 billion, or more than 10 percent over this year’s budget. In fact, call me a huge cheerleader for this proposal

Reynolds & Reynolds CEO Charged With Hiding $2 Billion from IRS – Biggest U.S. Tax Evasion Ever

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Reynolds & Reynolds CEO Charged With Hiding $2 Billion from IRS – Biggest U.S. Tax Evasion Ever

I saw this article originally in the Wall Street Journal, front page. But, I’m posting from the New York Times, because it’s not behind a paywall. $2 billion in hidden income? C’mon Robert Brockman – Read more »

Hey, Congress: Stop Underfunding the IRS!

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Hey, Congress: Stop Underfunding the IRS!

Recipients of my September Newsletter know it featured me running for elected office on a mock platform of fully funding the IRS.  This was the most recent of my many rants against Read more »

When Is An Offer In Compromise Advisable?

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When Is An Offer In Compromise Advisable?

I don’t like offers in compromise as a way to get rid of tax debt.  The process is cumbersome, expensive, and arbitrary. There are better ways to deal with tax Read more »

California FTB’s over-reaching definition of “doing business in California”

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California FTB’s over-reaching definition of “doing business in California”

If it even brushes against California, the state government wants to tax it… Income earned from CA-based clients by Out-of-State Residents One of my clients is a lawyer but he moved Read more »

Military Contractors Working Abroad Taxed Unfairly

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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

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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.

Americans with Foreign Bank Accounts and the IRS

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Americans with Foreign Bank Accounts and the IRS

If you own a foreign bank account, you need to report it to the IRS, or else, as the case of poor Mr. Gubser below illustrates. Failure to do so 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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