As we enter the last month of tax season, people who owe taxes have to consider their options. I often warn clients that nothing good comes from delaying filing. In addition to the interest and penalty they will have to pay for not paying their taxes on time, they will also need to pay penalties […]
I receive daily email of the hot court decisions of the day. In today’s email, I received a notice about a case of mine. The irony of this decision is that it is a Bankruptcy Court opinion in which I nominally represent the “Creditor”. In this case, I represent a pedestrian who was struck by
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I have posted in the past about Tax Refund Identity Theft. I have put up a number of posts on Facebook about this subject, and more recently about the problems TurboTax has been having. For example, I posted this article about TurboTax suspending e-filing of state tax returns because there have been so many problems with fraudulent returns
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My friends say to me that I must love the snow because it causes so many accidents. Putting aside the idea that the whole concept of loving accidents is reprehensible, I advise them that it is the summer that is the busy season, because there are simply more cars on the road and people are
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I had a new bankruptcy client come in this week. She complained that she called her bank when she could not make this month’s credit card payment. She said that the person at the bank they referred her to was “the biggest jerk”. I assured her that I was a bigger jerk than him. I
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I posted in October about Bankruptcy, Taxes, Payment Plans And A Special Deal. In that blog, I linked to my Favorite Fall Payment Plan, which is to pay $200 in the Fall to stop the phone calls and pay the rest when the tax refund arrives. I also announced a special deal, which is that anyone
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People have wondered why it is that lately I have been pounding my blog and pounding Facebook with various posts about tax preparation. People say to me ‘Louis, you are the accident lawyer, what is with all this tax preparation stuff?’. They are concerned that I am giving up my bread and butter practice in
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One thing that I notice that a lot of plain vanilla tax preparers do is promise “audit defense” or to “represent you” in a tax audit. However, they are not so clear on what that means, and do not tell you that their “guarantee” is limited to what they may legally do. The Internal Revenue
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As I was driving to work this morning, I passed Liberty Tax Service. They are advertising “Get $50.00 now”. Last night when I was web surfing, I saw that Jackson Hewitt was offering a $50.00 Walmart gift card for filing with them. I do not do such things. If I charged $200.00 for a basic
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I had a client of mine come in today, and after we talked about her case, I asked her about her taxes. She told me that she goes to Liberty Tax Service, but that she was thinking of changing because they are very expensive. I asked her how much they charged her last year, and
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