IRS Practice Series: The Un-agreed Collection Alternatives and Appeals (Completed)

This webcast will prepare you to go through IRS's Fast Track Mediation, prepare your case for the IRS Collections Appeals process, and explain how to prepare a your client's case for the various courts. While you may not be able to represent them in the Court system, you can certainly prove their case and be an expert witness.

This course will take you beyond the fundamentals of tax practice and into areas where skill and finesse are required. This topic is the sixth course in the IRS Practice Series — leading to a Tax Mediary (CTM) Certificate upon completion of the series.

Who Should Attend
Any proactive, current or prospective, Circular 230 practitioner who understands that the IRS is ramping up the "close the tax gap". Tax practitioners who want to protect their clients from IRS' predatory collections action. Tax practitioners who want to prevent the erosion of their client base, as their clients turn to free and cheap tax preparation services online. Tax practitioners who want to develop the skills to prevent and/or resolve IRS collections actions. And tax practitioners who want to grow their business into this rapidly expanding market.

Topics Covered

• Fast-Track mediation
• Collections Appeals
• Collections Appeals Process (CAP)
• Equivalency hearings
• Tax Court
• Court of Appeals
• Court of Claims
• District Court
• Bankruptcy
• Protective filings to prepare along the way

Learning Objectives

• Utilize tools to get past IRS rejections of Offers in Compromise, Installment Agreements, and levy releases
• Identify how practitioners can expand their practice base to include representation

Level
Intermediate

Instructional Method
Group: Internet-based

NASBA Field of Study
Taxes (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
IRS Practice Series: Overview of Collection Issues and IRS Practice Series: 10 Steps to Resolving Collection Issues (or equivalent knowledge)

Advance Preparation
None.