Tax Lawyer's Blog

About a year ago we questioned the sincerity of the IRS’s Offer in Compromise program in a post titled Is IRS Offer in Compromise Program a Sham?Â
We said then that it was our experience and the experience of other tax professionals that the program as currently operated was someone of a bait and switch: The IRS entices taxpayers to come [...]

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Anyone who thinks the Obama administration isn’t serious about closing the tax gap should read this little ditty courtesy of Paul Caron:Â
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost [...]

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My favorite quote about dogs is from W. Dayton Wedgefarth:
I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I [...]

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Barrack Obama has been a godsend for my tax practice. His profligate spending and reluctance to eliminate bureaucratic waste have forced him to take across-the-board aggressive action against tax cheats and delinquent taxpayers in an attempt to close the annual $300 billion tax gap. That means more clients for moi.
Lynnley Browning of the New York Times writes of the latest new IRS collection [...]

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The Blog of Legal Times reports that a taxpayer’s chances of beating the IRS in Tax Court are about 14%:
Your chances of winning a fight with the IRS are about as great as your chances when fighting City Hall.
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, in her recently-released annual report to Congress, listed the 10 tax issues [...]

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“The sons of men are members in a body whole related; for a single essence are they each and all created. When fortune racks with pain, one member, sorely; surely the other members cannot stand securely. O, you who from another’s troubles turn aside your view, it is not fitting they bestow the name of [...]

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You know you’re a tax nerd if you get exited when the IRS issues new streamlined notices.
It reminds me of Navin Johnson in the comedy classic The Jerk:
Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? [...]

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From the department of “duh” department TaxNews.Com reports that National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has criticized the way the IRS processes income tax and information returns, which, the report warns, leads to more overpayments and underpayments of tax than there need to be (emphasis added):
Under current procedures, the IRS processes income tax returns before it processes [...]

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