• You get a notice from the IRS that your income taxes are being audited or you get a bill from IRS because they claim that you owe them money.
  • The person who prepared your income taxes did not make you feel very confident that they knew exactly how to save you the most money possible on your taxes. 
  • You prepared your own income tax return and you are not sure that you claimed all the deductions you were entitled to.
  • You have already been audited and you disagree with the results of the audit.

• You are an employer and the IRS or EDD claims that you owe employment taxes.
  • The IRS or EDD claims that the people you hired as independent contractors are actually employees.
  • You fell behind in your tax deposits and suddenly the IRS sent you a bill for two or three times the amount you thought you actually owed.   
  • You have made payments, and the payments  don't seem to be reducing the amount you owe.
  • Your bank account has been seized by IRS and the money taken from your account does not seem to have reduced the amount you still owe.
  • You have been visited by an IRS representative who claims that you owe more money now than ever before.

• You have heard horror stories of how the IRS attempts to intimidate taxpayers and unsophisticated tax preparers so that they end up paying more taxes than they legally owe.

• You don't want to be a victim of an over zealous representative of the IRS or the FTB or EDD.

      Brent Vallens is an attorney who has 30 years of experience representing taxpayers before the IRS, the State Franchise Tax Board and the California Employment Development Department.