Challenging Assessed Taxes: Audit reconsiderations, doubt-as-to-liability offers, amending tax returns, and challenging the assessment at a CDP hearing (Presented by Tax Rep)

Eric L. Green | Green & Sklarz, LLC.

Eric is a managing partner in Green & Sklarz LLC, a boutique tax firm with offices in Connecticut and New York. The focus of Attorney Eric L. Green’s practice is civil and criminal taxpayer representation before the Department of Justice Tax Division, Internal Revenue Service and state Departments of Revenue Services. He is a frequent lecturer on tax topics for many national organizations, including Insightful Accountant, CCH, the NAEA, the NATP, the ABA Tax Section and the Connecticut Society of CPAs. Attorney Green has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He was the author and lecturer of the University of Connecticut School of Business IRS Representation Certificate Program, and has served as a columnist for CCH’s Journal of Practice & Procedure. He is the founder of Tax Rep LLC which coaches accountants and attorneys on building their own IRS Representation practices, and is the host of the weekly Tax Rep Network Podcast.

Mr. Green is the author of The Accountant’s Guide to IRS Collection, The Accountant’s Guide to Resolving Tax Debts, The Accountant’s Guide to Resolving Payroll Tax Debts and The Insider’s Guide to Offers-in-Compromise.

I. Understand how to request audit reconsideration | 3:00pm – 3:05pm

II. Identify when it is possible to use an amended return to reopen a bad assessment | 3:05pm – 3:15pm

III. Explain how Doubt-as-to-Liability Offers work | 3:15pm – 3:30pm

IV. Understand how to utilize a CDP hearing to force a reconsideration of a tax liability | 3:30pm – 3:45pm

V. Describe how to use refund requests to reopen a bad assessment | 3:45pm – 4:00pm