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“Oklahoma Tax Help” – The Tax Expert You Want When It Goes From the Frying Pan Into the Fire.

31 Thursday Mar 2016

Posted by in Innocent Spouse, Internal Revenue Service, Offer In Compromise, Probate, Probate and Trusts, Real Estate and Property Law, Tax Law, Tax Resolution

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Oklahoma Tax Help, Shawn J. Roberts Blog

http://www.shawnjroberts.com/are-you-ready-for-a-new-kind-of-tax-problem-help-oklahoma-tax-help-is-here/

Shawn J. Roberts and Dale B. Cazes are co-founders of Cazes Roberts, PLLC, in Oklahoma City. Resolving really sticky tax problems is one of their specialties. How do I know? I work there.

There are many reasons why people find themselves in a horrible tax dilemma. Maybe a husband or wife fails to pay the couple’s taxes, and keeps the spouse in the dark. A self-employed worker repeatedly fails to pay self-employment taxes, and finds that the IRS penalties and interest have made his tax debt astronomical.  

What if dad dies suddenly, and his surviving children find out that dad had not paid personal or business taxes for years? There is a big, fat tax lien on the property and the father’s estate. Suddenly, the surviving family is left wondering whether the tax debt will eat up their inheritance.  

Sometimes, running afoul with the IRS or the Oklahoma Tax Commission is not in your control. Regardless, if you are in this stressful situation, you can become desperate looking for someone who says he or she can help. Look hard before you leap. -CCE

Oklahoma Tax Help fights for individuals and companies to get relief from IRS or Oklahoma Tax Commission (“OTC”) tax problems. The IRS is the most powerful collection agency in the world and when it focuses its resources on an individual or company, the pressure is excruciating (so too with the OTC).  For example, an individual’s state-issued professional license (e.g., doctor, nurse, attorney, engineer or anyone else who has a state-issued license) or a company’s sales tax permit, can be suspended for failure to pay taxes.

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Oklahoma Tax Help was spawned by hearing from people who responded to the onslaught of television and radio advertising from tax resolution firms offering tax debt help, who found out those resolution firms charge astronomical rates and demand the entire cost up front. [P]eople found out those firms often take your case and take your money without getting enough information to determine whether they can realistically help you.

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IRS’ Top 2016 Frivolous Arguments and Tax Schemes.

25 Thursday Feb 2016

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Frivolous Tax Arguments Completes the IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for the 2016 Filing Season, IRS Website

http://1.usa.gov/1mMjYNW

In today’s economy, a problem with the IRS is the last thing you need. If the idea of the IRS swooping down on you doesn’t put fear in your heart, probably nothing will. Although most of us do not deliberately get behind on our taxes, life happens.

So, let’s say you do get behind on paying your taxes. The IRS penalties and interest make it worse, and soon it spirals out of control. This makes you all the more susceptible to fraudulent schemes and ready to grab at any chance for redemption.

When you this far over your head, you are at your most vulnerable. There is no “trick” or “scheme” that the IRS has not seen. Without the help of a known and proven true tax expert, you could easily go from the frying pan to the fire. -CCE

 The Internal Revenue Service today finished its 2016 ‘Dirty Dozen’ tax scams list by warning taxpayers against using frivolous tax arguments to avoid paying their taxes.

Also today, the IRS released the 2016 version of ‘The Truth about Frivolous Tax Arguments.’ The document describes and responds to some of the common frivolous tax arguments made by those who oppose compliance with federal tax laws. Examples include contentions that taxpayers can refuse to pay taxes on religious or moral grounds by invoking the First Amendment. The cases cited in the document demonstrate how frivolous arguments are treated by the IRS and the courts. . . .

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E-Filing Your Tax Return? Read This Before You Hit “Send.”

13 Saturday Feb 2016

Posted by in Cybersecurity, E-Filing, Encryption, Identity Theft, Internal Revenue Service, Legal Technology, Tax Law

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Hackers Trying to Steal Your Tax Refund With Stolen SSNs, by Angela Moscaritolo, PC World

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[T]he IRS on Tuesday announced that hackers recently attempted to use some 464,000 stolen Social Security numbers and an automated bot to generate E-file PINs, which can be used to electronically file a tax return. The incident occurred last month, and the hackers were able to successfully access an E-file PIN with 101,000 of the SSNs.

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Last year, Turbo Tax temporarily halted e-filing for state returns across the U.S. after it found ‘an increase in suspicious filings and attempts by criminals to use stolen identity information to file fraudulent state tax returns and claim tax refunds.’

The IRS’ Offer-In-Compromise Program.

01 Friday Jan 2016

Posted by in Internal Revenue Service, Offer In Compromise, Tax Law

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The Truth About the IRS Offer in Compromise Program, by Dale Cazes, The Law In Plain English by Dale B. Cazes Blog

http://dalebcazes.com/?p=155

If the IRS swoops down, my knee-jerk reaction would be to beg mercy and hope to resolve it quickly. However, the IRS’ approach is likely to be that it has the upper hand, and will act like it. Your best bet is to have a knowledgeable advocate in your corner. -CCE

If you are experiencing IRS tax troubles, be wary about the companies you see on television and radio claiming that they can settle your tax debts owed to the IRS for ‘pennies on the dollar.’ The settlement program these companies are speaking about is known as an Offer in Compromise (OIC), and despite what these companies say, the reality is that the IRS rejects more OICs than it accepts. . . .

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Tax Day Fun – Frivolous Tax Arguments And Their Penalties.

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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A Few Tax Arguments Not to Make, by Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar Blog

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Hey, your taxes are due this week—or are they?

Yes, they are, that was a figure of speech and not a suggestion that you should treat federal taxes as optional. That is one of the many arguments you should not bother making on Wednesday.

Turns out that the IRS has a publication that lists and summarizes a number of arguments not to make, entitled ‘The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments.’ . . .

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Tax Time Is Coming – Again.

19 Monday Jan 2015

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A new year. New tax laws. Regardless of whether you do your own taxes or use a trusty accountant, it’s time to start getting your ducks in a row. -CCE

Bankrate – Tax Laws and the IRS
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-law.aspx
Calculator for all types of things: taxes, payroll deductions, self-employment taxes, retirement plan tax deductions, and 125 cafeteria plans.

Income Tax – Cornell Legal Information Institution
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/income_tax
Federal statutes, regulations, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts, and U.S. Tax Court cases, and references to other sources.

TaxCites.com
http://www.taxsites.com/
Tax, Accounting and Payroll Sites Directory

IRS – Tax Law Questions
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Law-Questions

Tax Law: Guide to Taxation Law
http://www.hg.org/tax.html

IRS – Tax Code, Regulations and Official Guidance
http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/Tax-Code,-Regulations-and-Official-Guidance

TaxProfBlog
http://taxprof.typepad.com/

IRS Says It Did Not Back Up Email, But Relied on Employees To Archive Email On Personal Computers.

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by in Depositions, E-Discovery, Emails, Government, Internal Revenue Service, Legal Technology, Litigation Hold, Microsoft Office, Outlook, PC Computers, Preservation, Requests for Production

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GOP: IRS Lost More Emails In Tea Party Affair, by Rachel Bade with contributions by Josh Gerstein and Brian Faler, POLITICOPro

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This did not catch my eye because of the politics or that the involved party is the IRS. I was simply in awe that anyone in this day and age of litigation holds and e-discovery could – with a straight face – claim to have irretrievably lost so much computer data.  -CCE

Republicans on Tuesday charged that the IRS has lost emails of a half dozen of its employees involved in the tea party targeting controversy, including a top aide to the now-fired acting IRS commissioner.

In addition to losing two years’ worth of emails sent and received by Lois Lerner, the central figure in the scandal, the IRS ‘cannot produce records from six other IRS employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups,’ Ways and Means Republicans said in a release.

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Ways and Means does not say how the emails went missing or what time specific time periods are involved, though they say it includes the period at issue. In the case of Lerner, for example, her archived emails between 2009 and 2011 were washed away in a 2011 computer crash, the agency says.

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The IRS says that at the time they did not keep records of or back up all emails. Rather, they relied on employees to archive them on their personal computers after they ran out of storage space in their Outlook inboxes. . . .

Tax Audit Triggers and How To Avoid Them.

13 Thursday Feb 2014

Posted by in Finance and Banking Law, Government, Internal Revenue Service

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10 Red Flags That Can Cause a Tax Audit, by Docstoc Articles, Quicken Docstoc

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There are plenty of common audit triggers that business owners know to avoid. Never mix your business and personal finances. Don’t deduct things without receipts. Most of these preventative measures come down to common sense.

However, every year countless businesses get hit with an audit they never saw coming, and it ends up wasting their precious time and money. Where did they go wrong? Here are 10 little-known audit triggers that every business should know (and some suggestions on how to avoid them) . . . .

IRS Service Is Going From Bad To Worse.

20 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by in Fraud, Government, Identity Theft, Internal Revenue Service

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Why IRS Customer Service Is Bad (And May Get Worse), by Allison Linn, CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101339980

[G]iven its limited resources, the IRS said that in 2014 it will stop preparing tax returns for people who need help, such as those who are elderly or disabled. The agency also plans to answer only “basic” tax law questions, and only during the normal filing season through April 15. Instead, it will direct people to the website and other automated sources of information.  . . .