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IRS Criminal Tax Prosecution- IRS Summons Defense
Los Angeles Tax Attorney – The Internal Revenue Service may issue a summons inquiring “any offense connected into the administration or enforcement of the IRS tax code. Thus, unless there has been a referral to the Justice Department for criminal tax prosecution, that fact that there is a IRS criminal tax aspect to the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation into the taxpayer’s tax returns is not sufficient to quash a IRS tax summons.

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IRS Criminal Tax and IRS Tax Fraud – Criminal Tax Defense
California Tax Attorney – A taxpayer may utilize his privilege against self-incrimination in an IRS tax audit as to records in his possession. The IRS tax attorney-client privilege also applies in the IRS tax audit context.

The constitutional immunity against self-incrimination may be involved in an IRS tax audit or tax examination. It also applies during any IRS tax collection activity. The Internal Revenue Service’s announcement policy is that the IRS Criminal Investigation Division’s Special Agent is to advise the taxpayer at the initial meeting that he cannot be compelled to incriminate himself by answering questions or producing documents, even though the case has not yet reached the IRS tax criminal prosecution stage. This does not mean, however, that the taxpayer is protected merely because the IRS agent does not comply with that directive.

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Los Angeles IRS Tax Audit for Foreign Income Tax Attorney
Los Angeles Tax Attorney – Many IRS taxpayers located in Los Angles and California have taxable income from foreign sources. IRS is a member of an international tax enforcement and collection program to provide comprehensive IRS tax audit of returns of domestic taxpayers engaged in substantial international activities. IRS district tax directors in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Francisco, Pasadena, Glendale, Irvine, Torrance and Long Beach have jurisdiction of IRS tax returns audited, while agents of the Office of International Operations provide specialized assistance and participate with the IRS district tax agents in examination.

If a California IRS taxpayer who receives a request to produce foreign-based documents relevant or material to the tax treatment of an examined item fails to comply within 90 days, the requested material may be held inadmissable as evidence in IRS tax court. This rules does not apply if the taxpayer shows reasonable cause for failure to produce the documents.

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IRS Tax Notice to Taxpayer for IRS Summons
Los Angeles Tax Attorney- The IRS tax code states that the summons “shall provide such other information [ apart from the name of the taxpayer] as will enable the person summoned to locate the records required under the summons. If the third party is a designated record keeper, the taxpayer may move in court to quash the summons. Nevertheless, the record keeper is to proceed to assemble the summoned records upon receipt of the summons and be prepared to produce the on the date specified for their examination. A record keeper is entitled to reimbursement for its costs, regardless of whether the summons is enforced.

Los Angeles, Pasadena, Long Beach, Torrance, Orange and Riverside area taxpayers who have been contacted by IRS Tax Summons should contact IRS tax attorney to resolve their tax problems.

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Los Angeles IRS Tax Audit – Tax Attorney Production of Internal Revenue Service Documents

California Tax Attorney – During the coarse of an IRS tax audit, the IRS taxpayer may request documents from the Internal Revenue Service. Under a specific statute, the IRS taxpayer is entitled to inspect his IRS tax return, including amendments, supplements, and attachments.

In addition, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Torrance, Orange, Riverside, San Jose, California taxpayers may force the Internal Revenue Service to produce its manuals of instructions for revenue and special agents, since these are relevant to the possible improper use of the summons to aid an IRS criminal prosecution or IRS tax fraud; the IRS manuals may not be suppressed as privilege. The manuals are not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

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California IRS Offices to Contact Third Parties for IRS Tax Audit and IRS Tax Collection

Los Angeles Tax Attorney – In 1998, the Congress amended Code Section 7602 to prohibit Internal Revenue Service employees including IRS Agents and IRS Auditors from contacting third parties with respect to the taxpayer’s IRS tax liability without providing reasonable advance notice to the taxpayer that third-party contacts may be made.

Most IRS tax attorneys and tax lawyers who resolve tax problems were concerned that (1) that such contacts by the IRS may have negative effect on the taxpayer’s business and could damage the IRS taxpayer’s reputation in the community, and (2) that taxpayers should have the opportunity to resolve his tax problems through his tax attorney before the IRS contacted third parties.

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IRS Tax Savings for Los Angles and California Businesses and Taxpayers:

Los Angeles Tax Attorney – The Internal Revenue Service released additional information today about the upcoming economic stimulus payments in a specially designed section for Los Angeles and California IRS taxpayers.

Most IRS taxpayers just need to file a 2007 tax return in order to automatically receive the stimulus payment.

Internal Revenue Service provides extensive set of information for all taxpayers with questions about the IRS tax stimulus payments, commonly referred to as rebates. The questions and answers include important information for low-income workers and certain recipients of Social Security, Railroad Retirement benefits and veterans’ benefits.

IRS also provides extensive examples of how much Los Angles, Orange, Long Beach, Torrance, Woodland Hills, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks taxpayers can expect to receive in tax stimulus payments. The page includes more than two-dozen payment scenarios affecting different types of taxpayers.
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Los Angeles Tax Attorney – The Internal Revenue Service is seeking candidates for membership on the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Tax Attorneys, Lawyers and tax problem specialists in the Los Angeles and California area are encouraged to apply.

The IRS will require a federal IRS tax check waiver and criminal or fraud investigation clearance by the IRS and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

IRS provides an organized public forum for discussion of electronic IRS tax administration issues in support of the overriding goal that paperless filing should be the preferred and most convenient method of filing tax and information returns. ETAAC provides an annual report to Congress on IRS’s progress in increasing electronic transactions. Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco based IRS taxpayers have one of the nations highest rate of electronic filers.

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As the housing market and the mortgage businesses continue to crumble, even the once wealthy mortgage lenders are facing tax problems. Los Angeles Tax Problems for Mortgage Brokers With the wave of recent foreclosure filings and bankruptcy filings in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Torrance and other areas of Los Angeles County, home prices may continue to deteriorate.

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Los Angles Bankruptcy Attorney – As Los Angles area bankruptcy and foreclosures sky rocket, the Bush administration and Congress are considering new proposals for the government to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners whose mortgages are higher than the value of their houses.

Los Angles Bankruptcy Attorneys have noticed many high income neighborhoods in the Los Angeles are facing negative equity position in their homes.

Not since the Depression has a larger share of Americans owed more on their homes than they are worth. With the collapse of the housing boom, nearly 8.8 million homeowners, or 10.3 percent of the total, may lose their homes.

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