Tax Lawyer's Blog

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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Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog has found a neat little list from SmartMoney.com of 10 things the IRS won’t tell you.
Here it is in it’s entirety:

Like it or not, you may need help with your taxes
You don’t have to be rich to get audited
Fear is often our best weapon
The AMT is our ATM [...]

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