Well, last week Nina Olson, who’s the National Taxpayer Advocate at IRS, came out and stated that the real audit rate in the United States is 6.2%, not 7/10 of 1%. Just to put that in perspective, 7/10 of 1% equates to just over a million audits, and 6.2% equates to nearly 7 million audits. So who’s right? Who’s wrong?

How do you turn that into a marketing opportunity? Here is what the IRS is doing. Their headcount has been decimated over the last 3 or 4 years. It’s down by 23%. So more and more, the IRS is relying on technology, and their computers are generating automatic notices. 70% of the time they’re incorrect. Read More

At our Tax Resolution Marketing and Technology Conference held in Orlando, FL on Jan. 7-9, we told you this was going to happen.

As a pioneer in the tax resolution industry, I see this news as a sign that our industry is starting to “grow-up”. Prior to 1998 there really wasn’t an industry at all. Sure, practitioners we’re helping people with IRS problems but there were no formalized procedures on how to do this work. It was like the wild, wild, west of tax problem resolution. On 7/22/1998, then President Clinton signed into law the IRS Tax Restructuring and Reform Act (TRRA), also known as “The Taxpayers Bill of Rights III, which gave American Taxpayers “rights” they never before could exercise. Taxpayer’s were now afforded the ability to appeal all sorts of collection enforcement actions by the IRS and settle their tax debts for (much) Read More