Not Every Internal Revenue Service Letter Is an Audit: Representing Individual Taxpayers in Underreporter and Correspondence Examination Matters
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Not Every Internal Revenue Service Letter Is an Audit: Representing Individual Taxpayers in Underreporter and Correspondence Examination Matters

Most individual taxpayers who hear from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) never sit across a table from an examiner. They open an envelope. What that envelope contains may come from either of two distinct compliance programs, and the d... Anish Sanghi, EA

IRS Tax Examinations in the Past and Future and the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on the IRS’s Audit Activities
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IRS Tax Examinations in the Past and Future and the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on the IRS’s Audit Activities

In June 2011, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Shulman warned that the proposed cuts of $2 billion to the IRS’s budget in the United States House-passed fiscal 2012 budget resolution could have a long-term impact on taxpayer compliance. Notwithstanding the commissioner’s warni... Marcus Dyer, CPA