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Watchdog Growls At IRS' Audits By MailForbes.comBy Ashlea Ebeling Taxpayers suffer when IRS mishandles their responses. A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration lends support to growing complaints about the Internal Revenue Service's big audit-by-mail program. The IRS has increasingly relied on these correspondence audits, focused on one or two narrow issues, to maintain its audit coverage of normal taxpayers as its auditor corps has shrunk. Taxpayers are sent a letter that, for example, says their charitable or un-reimbursed employee business deductions will be denied and a certain amount of extra taxes assessed unless they provide acceptable documentation supporting the deductions within 30 days. Read the article »
The IRS Has A New Weapon: Your Tax Pro
Wall Street JournalBy Tom Herman A new law that puts the onus on tax preparers to head off tax dodging is expected to lead to more paperwork and higher fees for some taxpayers. The law is intended to make preparers more cautious about signing tax returns that include questionable or aggressive tax items without disclosing the details to the Internal Revenue Service on a special form. Stiff penalties may be imposed not only on income-tax preparers, but also on those who prepare estate- and gift-tax returns, employment and excise-tax returns, and returns of tax-exempt organizations. Read the article »
Q&A: Tax expert explains what's new this yearMercury News Read the article »
SEMINAR SPEAKERS & COURSE AUTHORSClientWhys CPE About UsRead below what ClientWhys has to say about Claudia Claudia Hill Claudia Hill is a nationally recognized tax professional and frequent lecturer on taxation of individuals, tax planning and representation before the IRS. She is Editor in Chief of the CCH, Inc." Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure" and is a Contributing Author of Practitioner's Publishing Company's "Guide to Dealing with the IRS." She is often called upon by the news media as a resource person for tax topics for periodicals such as WORTH, Money, Wall St. Journal, the San Jose Mercury News and many others. Read the article »
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