Nary a day goes by that I don’t talk to a client who is confused about one or more aspects of the OVDP program. Most of the time, it’s not the client’s fault. Usually, the confusion lies in the fact that the rules themselves are like a tangled web or labyrinth on the scale of what Harry Potter had to endure in the triwizard competition. So grab your broom. It’s time to navigate the labyrinth of overlapping rules within OVDP. The only difference is that your tour guide on this journey is not a famous teenage wizard who wears glasses, is an ace Quidditch player, has an impenetrable patronus, and speaks Parseltongue. Instead, it’s a very ordinary tax attorney who can no more get a snake to listen to him than he can his dog, Fido.

For as tedious as the rules can be, surprisingly that is not the primary source of Read More