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IRS Mediation

Business Entity Selection and the Tax Consequences of Converting

10 May Understanding IRS Notices and Letters

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Look on the IRS notice or letter you received in the upper right hand corner for an alpha numeric sequence. The corresponding IRS explanations below to their Notices and letters are sub categorized as follows: 1. Redesigned Notices 2. Other Notices 3. Individual Filer 4. Business Filer Redesigned Notices Notice Number Description Topic CP01H You...

03 Apr IRS Fresh Start Initiative: Apply for Extension of Time to PAY with Form 1127A or Request an Installment Agreement with IRS Form 9465FS

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If you don't have the money to pay your taxes you should file your return on time and pay as much as you can with the return to eliminate the late filing penalty and minimize the late payment penalty/interest charges. For tax year 2011, qualifying individuals...

17 Jan IRS Stakeholder Liaison Meeting Summary – Denver January 2012

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Attached is the summary of the IRS Stakeholder Liaison Meeting I attended on January 4th 2012 in Denver, Colorado as produced by Deborah Rodgers of the IRS. Some interesting insights were revisited. The most provocative discussion surrounded the comments made by Matthew Houtsma of District...

17 Nov Reconstruction of Tax Records

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Treasury Regulation 1.274-5 allows for a deduction without complete documentation if you can show that you have 'substantially complied' with adequate adequate record keeping requirements. This statute is code for ...

30 Sep Burden of Proof

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The IRS as many of you are painfully aware is often looked upon as accusing first without due process requiring the tax payer to shoulder the burden of proof in regards to his or her innocence relevant to the Internal Revenue Code. In other words...

29 Sep IRS Expanding Audits to Unrelated Tax Years and Tax Matters

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According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) the IRS needs to expand audits to other tax years and tax matters when large dollar amounts are involved in a preexisting audit making it all the more important to know exactly what you are...

15 Sep How IRS Enforcement Employees Are Evaluated

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is not formally evaluating its enforcement employees’ job performance based on quotas or other records of tax enforcement results, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) contrary to the opinion of many. The IRS...

18 Aug Trends in IRS Collection and Enforcement

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According to a report filed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration there has been a 19 % increase of enforcement personnel serving in the Collection and Examination function of the IRS since Fiscal Year 2006. Whereas on average overall IRS staffing increased 4 percent during...

02 Aug What The IRS Instructs You To Do If You Have NOT Filed Your Taxes

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Basically the simple answer is file your tax forms with both the US Federal government and applicable state governments. Start by filing the previous 3 years of income tax returns ASAP. It is possible the IRS may have already filed returns for you. Under Section 6020(b)...

22 Jul The Use of Quick Books by IRS Auditors

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In January 2011 IRS agents began to audit Quickbooks data files and will require a copy of your QuickBooks data, if used, to help them with the audit. YIKES! These are some of my suggestions to prepare for a tax audit involving Quickbooks. Make an annual backup that matches...