When a new client comes to you and wants you to get rid of their IRS penalties, what do you do? What if you represent a client during an IRS audit and penalties are assessed? Those late-night commercials make it sound just so easy, but is it? This workshop will cover the types of penalties applied by the IRS, including ones that could arise during an audit, and the options practitioners have available to have them removed. First, we’ll provide a good understanding of the various penalties, when they might occur, and why the penalties exist.
Next, we’ll explain, step-by-step how to go about knocking them out for your clients. We’ll cover the First-Time Penalty abatement and abatement for reasonable cause, developing and documenting reasonable cause arguments for relief. We’ll explain how to lay the groundwork for avoiding penalties during the audit, or before the appeal.
We’ll share how to draft your abatement request and document your client’s reasonable cause justification to give it the best possible chance of success. Finally, the program will discuss more significant penalties like the civil fraud penalty, the trust fund recovery penalty, and orders of restitution from criminal tax issues. Throughout the workshop, we’ll include case studies with completed examples and analyses that you can use in your own practice.
Your instructor is Eric Green, a nationally recognized tax attorney, and popular speaker and author who has helped thousands of accountants start and grow successful tax representation practices.
This special workshop on Tax Penalties and Penalty Abatement is more than just another CPE webinar. In addition to the presentation slide deck, you’ll get 10 handouts consisting of forms, samples, checklists, templates, and other practice aids.
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Tax Rep Network
Partner
egreen@gs-lawfirm.com
(203) 285-8545
Eric is a partner in Green & Sklarz LLC, a boutique tax firm with Connecticut and New York offices. The focus of Attorney Eric L. Green's practice is civil and criminal taxpayer representation before the Department of Justice Tax Division, Internal Revenue Service, and state Departments of Revenue Services. His practice also handles probate matters and estate planning for individuals and business owners, and tax planning for closely-held businesses. He is a frequent lecturer on tax topics for CCH, the NAEA, the NATP, the ABA Tax Section, and the Connecticut Society of CPAs. Attorney Green has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is the author of The Accountant's Guide to IRS Collection (available www.tgpublish.com), and he is a columnist for CCH's Journal of Practice & Procedure. He is also the founder of The New England IRS Representation Conference. Mr. Green is a contributing author for Advocating for Low-Income Taxpayers: A Clinical Studies Casebook, 3rd Edition, and has also been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Consumer Reports, The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, TheStreet.com, and CreditCard.com. Before practicing law Attorney Green served as a senior tax consultant for KPMG and Deloitte & Touche. Attorney Green was the 2010 Nolan Fellow of the American Bar Association and has served as Chair of the American Bar Association's Closely Held Businesses Tax Committee. Attorney Green is the current Chair of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association's Tax Section. Eric is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel ("ACTC") and a Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and American Bar Association member. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut Superior Courts, as well as the United States Tax Court, the Federal Court of Claims, and the Federal District Court for Connecticut. Attorney Green received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting with a minor in International Business from Hofstra University and is an honor graduate from New England School of Law. He earned a Masters of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from Boston University School of Law.
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