View this video here [GRAPHIC: WWW.BROWNTAX.COM, Brown, PC, NATIONAL IRS TAX CONTROVERSY AND TAX LITIGATION LAW FIRM, 888-870-0025, 500 MAIN STREET | SUITE 400 | FORT WORTH, TX 76102] LAWRENCE BROWN: The IRS collection cases that we handle, we typically represent businesses who haven’t paid over the trust fund or […]
It’s been 25 years now since the U.S. Supreme Court held that states could not impose the obligation to collect sales-and-use taxes on out-of-state sellers who lack a physical presence in the state. Back then, the retailers in question were mail order companies. Now of course it’s an online-driven sales […]
States are struggling to keep up with business innovations. The process of doing business has changed in recent years. Over the last few decades more and more business transactions are occurring online, causing the states to question when a business operates within its borders and is subject to state taxes. […]
View this video here [GRAPHIC: WWW.BROWNTAX.COM, Brown, PC, NATIONAL IRS TAX CONTROVERSY AND TAX LITIGATION LAW FIRM, 888-870-0025, 500 MAIN STREET | SUITE 400 | FORT WORTH, TX 76102] LAWRENCE BROWN: Brown, PC, is a tax controversy and tax litigation boutique law firm. We handle IRS audits and appeals, civil […]
The IRS has a vast arsenal of tools to use when collecting taxes. It has a tool, however, that it can use to cut its losses, so to speak, in a case when full collection from a taxpayer is doubtful: the offer in compromise, sometimes referred to as an OIC. If […]
View this video here LAWRENCE BROWN: Federal asset forfeiture refers to the federal government’s ability to take and then after jumping through certain procedural hoops keep assets that are the fruit of illegal activity or that were used to commit a crime. Businesses, individuals, and financial institutions have the obligation […]
LAWRENCE BROWN: At Brown, PC we handle civil tax controversies and litigation. LAWRENCE BROWN: Planning, tax planning, business planning, asset protection, criminal tax matters and white collar defense. I’m listed on the Martindale-Hubbell Directory or Preeminent Attorneys. And prior to starting this firm in 1992 was a Trial Attorney with […]
This week brought the Trump administration’s one-page opening salvo in what is likely to be contentious debate over reform of federal tax system. A key part of the proposal is to reduce business taxes from 35 percent to 15 percent – even for small, unincorporated business whose owners pay taxes […]
In spite of repeated instances of tax debt collection scams – some of them serious enough to warrant specific warnings from the IRS – the agency has once again chosen to outsource tax collection efforts to private debt collectors. This means that, in theory, the phone calls and letters you […]
More than 30 years have passed since Congress passed reform of the federal tax code in President Reagan’s second term. The question of whether such reform can happen this year, during President Trump’s first term, will be getting plenty of attention in the coming days. Somewhat beneath the radar, however, […]