Highly Trained Accountant and a Poorly Skilled Negotiator I think accounts are just not the type of people that make good fighters. People that want a fight go to law school. This is not at all a cheap shot at CPAs; I would be much more likely to share happy hour with a CPA than an attorney, easily. The CPA mindset is not geared to enjoy adversarial confrontations. In school I have heard they are taught to be big rule followers and not rock the boat and that is exactly what you want when it come to preparing a tax return. Nevertheless, to get into it with an IRS agent over a payment plan on back taxes, I’d take a person right out of law school any day of the week. Over the years, we tried accountants on several occasions and it never worked out well. On top of that, most wouldn’t even take a job in our tax relief department. This in spite of the fact we were paying very good money. We did employ CPA to prepare returns for our clients and they did a great job at that. In fact, we were surprised to find out that our CPAs did a much better job than tax lawyers who also had CPA qualifications when it came to tax returns, and profit and loss statements. Personally, I do not think you can hire someone to care as much as you will about your tax issue. It is true that going it alone against the IRS is not for everyone, but before spend $3,000 you might give it try yourself. Getting some knowledge about how they IRS analyze financials and how to properly fill out the required IRS forms would be helpful. Our Tax Relief eBooks will provide that information, but you can find out a great deal, on your own searching the web. We believe our kits will prepare you as good as most new lawyers are prepared, because we are giving you the exact same training we gave them, maybe better sine we have re-written the material to make it simpler. |