IRS Audit & Collection Defense
Legal representation during IRS audits and active collection enforcement to protect your rights and finances.
Overview
What This Service Covers
Understanding the full scope of your tax situation and how I approach a structured, strategic resolution.
An IRS audit or active collection action — whether a wage garnishment, bank levy, or federal tax lien — is one of the most stressful financial situations a person or business can face. The IRS has significant legal authority, and without proper representation, taxpayers often concede positions they don't have to.
I provide legal representation from the moment an audit notice or enforcement action arrives. For audits, that means reviewing the scope of the examination, gathering and organizing supporting documentation, and communicating directly with IRS examiners on your behalf. For collection defense, it means acting quickly to halt or reduce enforcement and negotiate a resolution that reflects your actual financial situation.
Every audit and collection matter is different. My focus is on protecting your rights throughout the process, responding accurately and completely to IRS requests, and pursuing the most favorable outcome available given the facts and law.
Individuals and businesses under IRS audit or facing active collection enforcement — including levies, garnishments, or liens — may benefit from legal representation at any stage of the process.
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Process
How It Works
A clear, step-by-step process built to resolve your tax matter with precision and protect your interests at every stage.
Immediate Response & Case Review
I review the IRS notice or enforcement action in detail — audit letter, garnishment notice, or levy — and advise you on the timeline, your rights, and the immediate steps required.
IRS Communication Takeover
With a signed power of attorney in place, I handle all communication with the IRS directly. You are no longer required to speak with IRS agents, and enforcement pressure is directed to me.
Documentation & Audit Response
For audit matters, I work with you to identify, organize, and present the documentation needed to substantiate the positions under review — minimizing concessions and protecting your return.
Collection Defense Action
For active enforcement — wage garnishments or bank levies — I pursue available options to halt or reduce the action while a resolution is negotiated, including collection due process hearings where applicable.
Resolution & Appeals
Where the audit or collection outcome is unfavorable, I evaluate the merits of a formal IRS appeal and pursue the next level of review to protect your interests and challenge findings we disagree with.
Included
Everything In This Service
Every service element covered in this engagement, from start to resolution.
FAQ
Common Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions about this specific service.
IRS audits can be triggered by a variety of factors — statistical anomalies in a return, unusually high deductions relative to income, unreported income identified through third-party reporting, random selection, or targeted industry enforcement initiatives. Receiving an audit notice does not necessarily mean wrongdoing.
In many cases, yes — or at least significantly reduce enforcement. Submitting a resolution proposal, requesting a Collection Due Process hearing, or demonstrating currently not collectible status are mechanisms that can halt or limit active collection while a resolution is negotiated.
No. With a signed power of attorney on file, I handle all communication with IRS examiners on your behalf. This protects you from inadvertently providing statements or documents that could expand the scope of the audit.
A Collection Due Process (CDP) hearing is a formal IRS proceeding that gives taxpayers the right to challenge collection actions — levies, garnishments, or liens — and propose alternative resolutions. Filing for a CDP hearing generally halts the enforcement action pending the outcome of the hearing.
Audit findings can be contested through a formal IRS appeals process. An independent IRS appeals officer reviews the case de novo — without being bound by the examining agent's conclusions — and resolves disagreements based on the law and facts presented.
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Confidential consultations for individuals and businesses facing IRS disputes, tax debt, audits, penalties and other complex tax matters.