How to Choose an IRS Tax Attorney
Evaluating whether a tax attorney or other tax professional has the necessary experience to handle your case competently can be difficult.
As licensed attorneys, tax attorneys can not misrepresent their work experience, education, or training. Therefore you should be able to ascertain the tax attorneys experience by merely asking the tax attorney whether he or she has handled cases involving the issue that is involved in your case. Non-attorney tax practitioners are not bound by this rule and are free to overstate their level of experience or expertise.
In addition, taxpayers should check to make sure that their tax professional has had some tax education, rather than just a general education or no formal education at all. Almost all attorneys will have a Jurist Doctorate (JD), which is a general law degree. Tax attorneys should also have a Master’s of Law (LLM), which is an advanced law degree with a specialization in tax law. Otherwise the attorney should have an undergraduate or graduate degree that included some tax coursework (such as a Bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting or financial planning). Unfortunately, there are a number of individuals holding themselves out as tax practitioners who have no formal education whatsoever.
I have experience representing both taxpayers as a private attorney and as a volunteer attorney for the government (with the Internal Revenue Service and a low-income taxpayer tax clinic). As far as education goes, I hold a LLM in tax law, a Master’s in Financial Planning, and a JD.
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