How can a law practice survive . . .

The first major overhaul of the tax audit system in the past 50 years?

MSSP, an organized IRS program that targets the legal profession?

Specially trained IRS agents with unprecedented fingertip access to public archives, industry statistics, and the tax history of any business?

With IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guide Attorneys

New strategies and techniques for audit self-defense

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Attorneys are a prime target of the IRS’s Market Segment Specialization Program (MSSP). Using a newly developed industry specific Audit Technique Guide and the latest in computer and communications technology, IRS agents specially trained in the finer points of legal practice operations and accounting are putting the tax returns of thousands of businesses under a very powerful microscope. Now more than ever, it is vital for CPAs and attorneys to anticipate IRS actions in order to avoid an audit or to survive one should it occur.

IRS Audit Protection and Survival Guide: Attorneys helps law practices prepare for this intensified scrutiny. It explains the issues in the IRS’s MSSP Audit Technique Guide for attorneys and describes specific changes in the IRS approach to examining their tax returns. Prescribing a series of audit self-protection strategies and techniques for the entire profession, authors Daniel Baran, former IRS agent Gerald Bernard, and attorney James Brown bring almost 60 years of combined experience to bear in analyzing the program’s effects on key areas of taxation. Topics covered include:

  • Sources of income
  • Expenses and record keeping
  • Accounting periods and methods
  • Employee and independent contractor issues
  • Establishing, purchasing, or buying into a practice
  • Attorney-client privilege and other special issues.

Supplemented with relevant IRS forms and regulations, this is the ultimate road map to the changing tax landscape for CPAs and attorneys.

About the authors

DANIEL J. BARAN, CPA, is a principal of Daniel J. Baran, P.C., a firm specializing in tax controversy, tax planning, and tax compliance. A former senior tax staff member with Ernst & Young LLP, he was a founding board member of the Arizona Forum for Improvement of Taxation. He is a past chairman of the Arizona Society of CPAs’ Internal Revenue Service Committee and the Arizona Department of Revenue Tax Liaison Committee.

GERALD F. BERNARD, CPA, is coprincipal of Bernard & Stallman, P.C., a Phoenix-based accounting firm that specializes in tax services. A former IRS agent who for five years performed audits on individuals, small businesses, and trusts, Mr. Bernard now uses his IRS expertise to serve his clients. He is a past chairman of the Arizona Tax Legislation Committee of the ASCPA and served two terms as chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Arizona Forum for Improvement of Taxation.

JAMES E. BROWN, Esq., is an attorney who has been engaged in public tax practice for eighteen years. A former member of the tax staff for Ernst & Young LLP, he received a master of law degree in taxation (LLM) from Boston University. He is involved regularly in tax planning and tax controversy matters for clients and has written and lectured extensively on tax issues.

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