If you are facing an IRS audit, you don’t need an experienced tax professional – you need an experienced tax attorney who can extend the protection of “Attorney-Client Privilege”. The issues at hand are the conversations you will need to have with your tax professional and the information you will be providing. You may need to disclose or review sensitive information to answer the questions raised in an IRS audit. It is not uncommon for a client to tell me “I just made that answer up,” or “I picked a number consistent with past years.” Unfortunately, if that conversation takes place with a non-attorney tax professional, the IRS has the authority to compel that information from the tax preparer or professional as a part of the audit, and use it against you. My clients enjoy the protection of attorney-client privilege, allowing us to have an open and candid conversation about all issues related to the audit and associated returns without further exposing you and that confidential information to the IRS. This allows us to work openly to determine the best course of action to resolve all IRS issues in the most effective and cost efficient manner. For many of my clients the best news of all is that they don’t have to talk to the IRS themselves – I handle all communications for you.
