IRS Disputes

Description

Want to help your client save money and avoid potential trouble with the IRS? This CPE course explains what may trigger an IRS audit, how to negotiate, settle on appeal, qualify for an IRS collection program and evaluate your client's best options for dealing with the IRS. You will also learn about IRS audit techniques, how to handle requests and appeal rights so you can represent your clients with confidence.

Highlights

  • The assessment process
  • Audit selection, examination, and the appeals process
  • Installment agreements
  • Offers in compromise
  • Advising delinquent taxpayers
  • The IRS collection process for tax liens, levy, seizure, and sale
  • Bankruptcy and the effect on tax liabilities
  • Practice before the IRS
  • Business taxation
  • Tax liens levy seizure
  • Fund recovery penalty

Objectives

  • Evaluate IRS audit trends and the audit selection process.
  • Determine when IRS requests could be challenged.
  • Identify the timing, scope, and location of various IRS audits.
  • Recognize IRS audit techniques and inquiries and appeal rights.
  • Identify how to manage the information document request process and evaluate the contents of a revenue agent report.

Designed For

CPAs, enrolled agents, and attorneys

Leaders

Greg Carnes

Dr. Gregory Carnes serves as Dean of the College of Business at the University of North Alabama. He came to UNA in 2007 as the Raburn Eminent Scholar of Accounting. He previously served as President of the Accounting Program Leadership Group, President-Elect of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and Secretary of the American Taxation Association.

Dr. Carnes has also served as chair of the Department of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University and Dean of the College of Business at Lipscomb University. Dr. Carnes has published approximately 30 articles in journals such as The Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Advances in Taxation, The Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation, The Tax Adviser, Taxation for Accountants, Taxation for Lawyers, and The CPA Journal.

He is a contributing author on South-Western Federal Taxation: Individual Income Taxes, a popular textbook used in undergraduate taxation courses. He also authors material for Wiley/CPA Excel, one of the nation's leading CPA Review courses. He has also provided tax training for national accounting firms and the AICPA. He is a member of the AICPA, the American Accounting Association, the Alabama Society of CPAs, and the American Taxation Association.