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	<title>Colorado Tax Attorney: Denver Tax Lawyer</title>
	<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com</link>
	<description>Denver tax attorney provides IRS tax law representation and tax planning services, including IRS audits, collections, and negotiations.</description>
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		<title>Using a Subchapter S Corporation to Reduce Payroll Taxes for a Sole Proprietorship or Partnership?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sole proprietors and partners who provide services to their partnership business have to pay self-employment taxes on the income they earn from the business. Self-employment taxes include Social Security and Medicare taxes. The owner of the sole proprietorship is then able to deduct one half of this amount in determining his federal income tax liability.
With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com/s-corporation-reduce-payroll-taxes/</link>
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		<title>IRS Provides Guidance on Whistleblower Informant Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRS whistleblower program allows taxpayers to obtain payment from the IRS for providing information about alleged tax wrongdoing by other taxpayers. According to the new guidance issued by the IRS, there has been a significant increase in the number and quality of informant claims. The guidance sets out a three-step process for handling whistleblower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring A Tax Attorney to Abate A Tax Penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tax penalties present taxpayers with unique issues to consider.  Wilson v. Commissioner, T.C. Summary Opinion 2008-91, describes the situation where a tax attorney represents a taxpayer with a tax penalty that was imposed for a tax return prepared by the attorney’s firm. The issue that the case describes is the conflict of interest that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com/can-a-tax-attorney-zealously-represent-a-client-with-tax-penalty-for-return-his-firm-prepared/</link>
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		<title>Innocent Spouse Relief Refund Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Orlock v. Commissioner, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed the question of whether a spouse is entitled to a refund of payments to the IRS if she is granted innocent spouse relief.  More specifically, the court considered whether the innocent spouse was entitled to a refund of payments made by the innocent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com/innocent-spouse-relief-refund-claims/</link>
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		<title>Qui Tam Settlements and the Tax Benefit Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A qui tam claim involves a lawsuit where a private citizen helps the government prosecute fraud perpetrated against the government.  These claims are often filed by employees or former employees who know of wrongdoing by an employer.  These are often whistleblower claims.  In exchange for helping to prosecute the claim, the private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Details the Federal Income Tax Consequences of Gift Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If an accrual method taxpayer issues a gift card, does the taxpayer have to recognize taxable income at the time that the card is sold or when the card is redeemed?  The IRS Office of Chief Counsel recently issued a legal memorandum that addresses this question.  
According to the IRS attorneys, taxpayers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporting Requirements for ISOs and ESPPs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has released proposed Regulations to implement the recent changes in Code Sec. 6039. These Regulations require corporations to report the transfer of stock upon the exercise of incentive stock options (ISOs) and by employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs).
Pursuant to the changes in Code Sec. 6039, corporations must provide this information to the employee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com/reporting-requirements-for-isos-and-espps/</link>
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		<title>Discharging Tax Debts in Bankruptcy: The Three Year Look-Back Period</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often, discharging tax debts in bankruptcy is the best method of resolving unpaid tax debts. The U.S. Tax Court recently addressed one of the rules for discharging unpaid tax debts in bankruptcy in Lehman v. Commissioner, T.C. Summary Opinion 2008-83.
In Lehman, the taxpayers initially sought Chapter 13 bankruptcy relief. The taxpayers filed their tax returns as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com/discharge-tax-debts-in-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<title>Finding Tax Savings in a Lost Marriage: The Taxation of Alimony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If payments qualify as alimony pursuant to federal tax law, the payments may be tax deductible by the payor spouse and included in gross income to the payee spouse. If the payments do not qualify as alimony pursuant to federal tax law, the payments may not be tax deductible by the payor spouse and they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxtrouble.com/tax-alimony-attorney/</link>
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		<title>IRS Recognizes Employee Tool and Equipment Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRS recently issued a Coordinated Issue Paper that sets out its view of what constitutes an acceptable Employee Tool and Equipment Plan.
An Employee Tool and Equipment Plan is an agreement between an employer and one or more of its employees to reimburse the employee for the use of the employee&#8217;s tools and equipment. The [...]]]></description>
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