Tax Lawyer's Blog

Often, when a taxpayer speaks to a low-level IRS official about a tax issue the official tells him one or more of the following:

You must pay the debt or you will be criminally prosecuted
If you don’t pay the debt in full within so many days, your assets will be seized
It’s a waste of money to hire an attorney

The [...]

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Kevin Kilduff has been stopped by the IRS from making a living for two years because he filed a few tax returns late, but real tax scofflaws get to keep their federal jobs.�
From Justin Higginbottom of Tax Policy Blog:
From Politico:
Chaffetz will introduce legislation Thursday that would allow Hill offices to get rid of the hundreds of Senate and House staffers who [...]

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Clarence Earl Gideon must be turning over in his grave.
Imagine a judicial system where criminal prosecutors had the power to disbar criminal defense lawyers. How long do you think it would take the United States Supreme Court to issue a unanimous decision declaring that system unconstitutional?
Yet the IRS is empowered to punish with the full force of its [...]

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WebCPA reports that our pal Joe Francis - the shaper of young teenage minds and other stuff - is being forced into bankruptcy by a whopping $34 million IRS lien:
[The] CEO of the company that produces the racy “Girls Gone Wild” video series, is in trouble with the IRS again only weeks after a judge sentenced him [...]

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I have had IRS agents bypass my power of attorney because I didn’t return their phone calls the same day my office received them.
Now it seems that our favorite federal bureaucracy holds taxpayers and their professionals to a much higher standard than it holds itself. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reports that in [...]

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Fellow CPA and tax blogger Monica Lawver writes about the wackiness of some IRS agents:
Seems the news is flooded these days with stories of IRS agents and their various shenanigans.
I hope stories like these convince people with IRS trouble to seek the help of a qualified tax professional! In a perfect world, the system would [...]

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Here is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote several months ago describing the conduct of an IRS agent that had prompted me to write a letter of complaint to the Commissioner of the IRS:
It happened again.
A-friggin-gain!!!!
On Friday a corporate client of mine wrote me the following email after she received a visit from [...]

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I have finally completed the first draft of my letter to The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Doug Shulman.
A complete copy is provided below.
See my previous post titled The Tax Lawyer to Petition IRS Commissioner re: Taxpayer Right to Representation for a discussion of what prompted me to write this letter.
I invite any taxpayers or tax professionals who [...]

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Last week I told you that I am preparing a petition to be sent to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman about the serial abuse by IRS Revenue Agents of taxpayers’ right to representation.
I appreciate the emails and comments I received from several tax practitioners who have had similar experiences with rogue IRS agents.
I have obtained an affidavit from [...]

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It happened again.
A-friggin-gain!!!!
On Friday a corporate client of mine wrote me the following email after she received a visit from an IRS collection agent:
Well he came and went. He told me that I shouldn’t have hired an attorney and wanted to know how much I paid Mr. Pappas.
He then began interrogating me and asking [...]

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