TELESEMINAR: Defending Against IRS Audits and Collections, Part 2 – A National Perspective

March 7, 2012
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
1.00 MCLE hours

Telephone

This program will provide you with a practical guide to defending individual clients and closely held business owners against IRS audits and collection activity. Audits involving income and employment tax liability will be covered. The program will discuss the different types of audits to which your client may be subject, the different type of IRS personnel involved at each level of audit, and the risks involved with each. Preparing for the audit, including what information you will need and where to get it, along with the appeals process will be examined. The program will also discuss defending against collection activity, with an emphasis on forms of settlements and standards for settlements. Part 2 of 2.
 
Highlights:
  • Preparing for an audit – what you need to know and where to get it, including document requests from the IRS
  • Ascertaining what the IRS’s goal in the audit and a reasonable range of settlements
  • Forms of settlement and settlement standards
  • Understanding the appeals process and rates of success at each level
  • Collections process, defenses, and forms of penalty abatement
        
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Program Speaker:
Stephen J. Turanchik, Paul Hastings, LLP, Los Angeles

 

 

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Stephen J. Turanchik is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings, LLP, where his practice focuses on tax litigation at the state and federal levels as well as tax controversy work at the administrative levels. Before entering private practice, he is previously litigated for six years for the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, where he litigated over 300 tax cases in federal, bankruptcy, state and probate court. He has also lectured at Loyola Law School and California State University, Fullerton on topics relating to tax litigation. Mr. Turanchik received his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

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