rgatijnet1 wrote:
bobkatmsu wrote:
Anyone not afraid of the IRS is either Tim Geitner or does not know enough to be afraid.
Or someone like me who had conducted the same business long enough to know what is legal to deduct and what is not legal as it applies to the business he is in. For others with no experience and have not contacted an accountant or attorney that specializes in TAX issues, they can continue to live in fear. Not my problem.
Sadly it is a different world out there today with the IRS. They have hired many new auditors who are poorly trained and even more poorly supervised. When you have a bad auditor you do have several appeal routes that may provide you some relief, but if all else fails you have to take it to Federal Court.
We have a case currently where the auditor and her supervisor are just plain wrong and we will be taking it to Appeals. Cost to the client will be about $10,000 between us and the tax attorney. Sad set of circumstances.
And now we return you to the original posters comments!