CA: estate taxes

California has an established appeals procedure that starts by filing a protest following an audit. It ends with a hearing with the Board of...

How does the IRS Allow Tax Preparer's stay in busiiness

The fact that several of this tax outfits client's are under audit simultaneously can be indicative that the government is building a criminal case...

Will IRS consider this to be "non-willful" and eligible for Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures?

See: http://www.klasing-associates.com/faq/risks-attend-non-willfulness-certification-2014-revisions-called-streamlined-program-disclosing-ones-fo...

Eligible for Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures?

What your describing is a correspondence audit usually related to a CP2000 notice. My opinion would be if the correspondence audit has closed the...

Ex husband - tax evasion

If you want to sick the IRS on him see: http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/How-Do-You-Report-Suspected-Tax-Fraud-Activity%3F If you have...

I have been the victim of ID theft. No one has been arrested or convicted but I got notice from the IRS. What do I do?

This first link answers your...

I agree with my colleagues. I would add that I have dealt with this problem before - occasionally the IRS will post a taxpayer's funds to the...

Assisting in a fraudulent tax return?

From a speech I'm writing for the American Association of Attorney CPA's: Potential Tax Practitioner criminal liability: It is important to...

My 2 brothers and I inherited a house appraised at 1.5 million at death. Wondering what capital gains tax will be incurred.

If the house was inherited from a U.S. estate and an estate tax return was filed your basis will be the fair market value of the house at the...

An amended joint return requires both spouses to sign. Original preparer may have negligently accepted only one signature and e-filed the amended...