How to Appeal an IRS Audit

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Appealing an IRS audit can be a complicated process. The IRS Office of Appeals requires taxpayers to file a Tax Protest within 30 days if they feel they have been unfairly treated. When an Appeals Officer views your audit they will be looking for any mistakes that could have been made on the agent’s behalf. Independent of any IRS office, they provide a new perspective on a case and give you a chance to fairly dispute a decision made on behalf of an IRS agent. Court trials can be expensive and time consuming. Hiring a tax lawyer to manage your audit appeal is a faster and easier way to get the job done. Having an impartial professional appeals auditor can give you an edge with your audit case.

Hiring a lawyer to conduct all communications with the appeals officer takes the stress off of you so you can continue building your business. Tax lawyers make their work out of constructing persuasive arguments on your behalf and have even settled cases where the IRS owed money to the taxpayer instead of the taxpayer owing money to the government. While this may not always be the outcome, an IRS lawyer knows all the twists and turns involved in a government taxpayer audit and can construct the best solutions possible for your situation. If for whatever reason the dispute cannot be settled with an appeals officer, it can be fought in the U.S. Tax Court, although it is highly recommended that an appeal go through the IRS Office of Appeals first.