The accountant or tax preparer plays a crucial role in any tax investigation. The panel will discuss ethical and strategic issues concerning when and how the accountant should be represented and the extent to which the accountant may, must, or should cooperate with the taxpayer. The panel will also consider the role of the accountant in a sensitive tax examination.
The IRS Representation Conference brings together representatives from the government and expert private practitioners to compare perspectives on a variety of topics involving federal tax audits, appeals, and litigation. The Conference covers a wide range of representation issues, from procedural seminars to substantive programs, estate & gift issues, ethical problems, current enforcement initiatives, sensitive audits, and civil and criminal tax penalties.
This comprehensive, two full-day event focuses on the practical issues and how to handle them rather than theoretical issues.
View further details on the event here.
Please note: Enrolling in an individual session will grant you access to the entire two-day event.
Capes Sokol
Shareholder
boxerman@capessokol.com
(314) 505-5470
Sandy defends individuals and corporations in white-collar investigations and prosecutions. He also represents taxpayers in civil and criminal tax matters.
Sandy has experience in both the public and private sectors. From 1991 to 1994, he served as an assistant public defender in the City of St. Louis, where he gained valuable experience as the first chair in numerous jury and bench trials. From 1988 to 1991, and from 1994 through the present, he has worked in private law firms. Sandy was one of the founders of Capes Sokol in 2001.
Capes Sokol
Shareholder
neill@capessokol.com
(314) 505-5418
The Chair of Capes Sokol’s Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group, Sara Neill, represents clients in civil and criminal tax disputes and litigation involving the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice, Missouri and Illinois Departments of Revenue. Sara was recognized as St. Louis “Litigation and Controversy—Tax Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in 2015 and 2018.
Sara handles federal and state tax audits and administrative appeals, as well as litigation before the U.S. Tax and District Courts. She frequently advises both individuals and businesses with sensitive tax problems, such as those who have failed to file returns, underreported their income, neglected to remit trust fund taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, pay significant amounts of tax due, or disclose foreign assets and accounts.
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Managing Shareholder
ferreiram@gtlaw.com
(415) 655-1305
G. Michelle Ferreira is Co-Managing Shareholder of the San Francisco Office and Co-Managing Shareholder of the Silicon Valley Office and counsels individuals, partnerships, estates, and corporations in tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and state and local tax agencies, including the California Franchise Tax Board, the State Board of Equalization, the Employment Development Department and county assessment appeals boards.
As a former tax litigator for the Internal Revenue Service, Michelle brings unique experience to clients with complex and sensitive tax and penalty disputes. Michelle represents clients before the IRS, and state and local tax agencies at the audit, collection, appeals, and litigation stages.
EisnerAmper LLP
Partner/CEO/President
miri.forster@eisneramper.com
Miri Forster is a Principal and Co-Leader of the Tax Controversy Practice specializing in providing tax dispute resolution services to public and private corporations, partnerships, and high net worth individuals on a wide range of technical and procedural issues. She has over 20 years of IRS practice, procedure, and tax controversy experience.
Miri represents businesses and individuals before the IRS Examination and Appeals Divisions on complex domestic and international tax issues. She also obtains private letter rulings from the IRS National Office, including 9100 relief requests for missed elections. Miri assists clients with voluntary disclosures of inadvertent income, international information return, withholding, payroll tax compliance errors, obtains penalty abatements and refunds, resolves IRS account issues, and advises on a broad range of IRS practice, procedure, and dispute resolution matters.
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