subject: Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Tax Attorney, CPA Or Tax Resolution Specialist [print this page] Finding a tax professional to solve your tax problems is like the end ofIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Make the right choice and all your wounds will be healed. Make the wrong choice and you'll be turned into a screaming shriveled skeleton. Whether it's a tax attorney, certified public account or certified tax resolution specialist (CTRS), it's important to choose your tax representative wisely.
If you've got tax problems, like Delinquent tax returns, tax returns, pay taxes or other tax collection and audit issues, your first impulse may be to open the Yellow Pages or Google or ask for recommendations. Great, now you get some names, but how do you find the right experts to help you with the IRS?
To avoid paying a high hourly rate unnecessarily go through these tax lawyer / CPA / Tax Resolution Specialists checklist first interview. This checklistThey weed out the tax relief impostor, and the only incompetent lawyers and accountants out there, you will leave with their high fees, your original tax debt, plus additional penalties and fees.
Print this article and the following questions to ask.
Before you tackle will face a tax attorney or tax resolution professional first glance in the mirror to one of your tax problem.
Looking at personalIncome tax matters (you are an innocent spouse or a victim of fraud), business tax problems (such as unpaid income tax, sales tax), property taxes, foundation or love tax questions?
Is it only with federal or state level, taxes?
You have tax problems in several states or jurisdictions?
If the IRS on the issue yet or you've just discovered?
Has the IRS contact you, but you have stuck their heads in the sand hoping itwould go away?
If your papers are a shambles?
Can you try a real accounting of what happened?
Does the IRS come to your home or at your workplace?
Has the IRS requires a personal check?
Has the IRS garnished your wages, tax liens and share or seized property?
The answers to these questions, you can decide which type of control you need.
If you get tax problem resolution professional recommendations from friends, you mustCompare apples to apples. While a CPA an hourly cheaper than a big tax lawyer, they can not do, what can be a good tax lawyer. A large CPA can get your tax documents in order, so you can get a true account of the "historic" road traveled only, but it should probably not bring you into battle with the IRS because they do not spend all their time trying to tax negotiation resolutions do the way specialized tax professionals. You need someone who battlesthe IRS for a living, who has learned the latest laws and knows all the secrets to help solve your tax problem.
