Sometimes the IRS is simply wrong. This happens more often than you might think. Over the years we have found that the IRS makes mistakes most often in the following areas: Wrongful Calculation of Penalties and Interest Matching of Income to the Wrong Taxpayer Wrongful Assessment of Penalties Failure to Release a Lien Incorrect Calculation [...]

We have written extensively about the three Taxpayer Bills of Rights that have been signed into law in the last twenty years. This article carves out for discussion the applicable provisions of the Bills that apply to the IRS Audit process and grades the IRS’s performance with respect to each taxpayer right using the following [...]