The IRS’ tax lawyer, who failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest. While having an attorney-client relationship with the benefit plan’s promoter, the tax attorney wrote several opinions for prospective plan participants. These opinions pertained to a benefit plan’s qualification under Internal Revenue Code section 419A. The tax lawyer later…
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The IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) alleged that Joseph Kozelsky did not file timely tax returns for 2001 through 2007 and did not timely pay his federal tax liability. As a result of his tax problems he was disbarred from practice before the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Kozelsky didn’t…
Tax lawyers representing a man accused of failing to file business income tax returns told the judge that obsessive-compulsive disorder was responsible for their client’s tax problems, the Calgary Herald reported. Business tax debt can sink a business; frequent issues tax attorneys are called to deal with include payroll tax…
Rudolph Elmer, an ex Julius Baer executive turned over offshore bank account information to WikiLeaks today, according to Bloomberg News. According to the release, data on 2000 offshore bank accounts has been turned over, and WikiLeaks plans on making the data public; although it says it will take at least…
I found the following tips to eliminate tax problems in an old file. Not sure if a tax lawyer came up with them, but thought I would pass them along. * Always put staples in the right hand corner. Go ahead and put them down the whole right side. The…
According to a complaint Part 2) filed by the California Attorney General against a well known tax debt problems through tax debt resolution services. Deutch tells clients that once they retain Roni Deutch A P.C., the clients are not legally obligated to continue making installment payments to the IRS. *…
A couple of weeks ago I was at the ABA Tax Section Meeting which as I mentioned previously gathered tax lawyers from around the country. Since I spent most of my time at meetings involving FBARs (Foreign Bank Account Report TD F90-22.1), I missed another meeting. It turns out that…
The Internal Revenue’s (IRS ) tax lien filing polices were in the Taxpayer Advocate’s 2009 Report to Congress listed as the second most serious tax problem facing taxpayers today. This is not a big surprise to those tax lawyers who deal with IRS tax collection problems on a regular basis.…
Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, issued her annual report to Congress in which she lists the 20 most serious tax problems as required by Internal Revenue Code (IRC) § 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(III). They are: 1. The Complexity of the Tax Code 2. The IRS Needs to More Fully Consider the Impact…