This episode focuses on the current state of affairs in working with IRS Collections and Enforcement. The issues with the IRS customer service are making it difficult to represent ...

While I identified on a previous episode changes that the IRS is making for submissions of power of attorney forms, that still does not change how the IRS processes those forms. Th...

The tax season now starts February 12!   In looking at a crash course in taxes, I decided the easiest way to talk with someone about several concepts was to review the form 1040. I...

In looking at a crash course in taxes, I decided the easiest way to talk with someone about several concepts was to review the form 1040. In part one, I will go through the first p...

I am sure many of you have benefited from the economic impact payments (also called stimulus payments). In past episodes, I discussed different people who should have received thos...

Well, 2020 was a wild year. What will 2021 bring? I am not going to try to predict the coming year. After all, who could have predicted the pandemic for 2020? I am going to talk a ...

Merry Christmas!   This is a recap of the 2021 Annual LITC Grantee Conference, which was entirely virtual for the first time in December 2020. The first week focused on a tax bootc...

2020 – the year in review. Not much happened this year, right?   Seriously – quite a bit happened inside the tax world and beyond based on the pandemic. For the Low Income Taxpayer...

In the 2021 LITC Grantee Conference, I am giving a presentation on Collections (Part 1). This presentation is part of a series of tax bootcamp presentations for LITC practitioners ...