Tax Resolution Services
The IRS and state/local tax authorities can turn your personal and business finances upside down. Even if you haven’t done anything wrong, an audit can make chaos of your life. If you are facing an audit or inquiry from a tax authority, you need a good response plan. We can formulate that plan. From our extensive experience with tax resolution, we’ve found that many of the problems generated by tax notices can be resolved relatively easily. The key is to approach the matter correctly– if you don’t handle replying just right, you can find yourself in an even more complicated and confusing situation. It is also a terrible idea to let a tax problem linger–you should never go to bed with an unanswered letter from a tax authority.
Let GPL deal with the tax authorities on your behalf. Our dream team of enrolled agents, tax specialists, accountants, and financial analysts will straighten out your current difficulties and show you how to avoid similar problems in the future.
Federal Tax Audits
Few things are more stressful than being audited by the IRS. Whether it’s on the personal or business front, knowing that you are facing the scrutiny of a powerful government agency can lead to many sleepless nights.
If handled correctly, however, the length of an audit can be abbreviated, and your suffering can be reduced. The first step is to make sure have qualified help on your side. Just like you should never represent yourself in a legal proceeding, so should you never represent yourself in an IRS audit. You should let GPL’s enrolled agents represent you.
Federal Tax Audits - Service Highlights
- Carefully review your audit notice and propose a course of action during a free initial consultation.
- Prepare any needed written responses, including amended returns that must be prepared.
- Organize and prepare documents for submission that the IRS has requested, in a format and manner that experience has shown IRS agents prefer.
- Prepare unfiled returns from past years, as far back as is needed.
- Our enrolled agent will represent you before an IRS auditor in person if needed. You will not even have to attend the audit.
Franchise Tax
State franchise taxes are complex, because they are typically not based on a person or company’s revenue or income, but rather on their perceived net worth. Some states apply them to businesses that aren’t located within their jurisdiction but still have a tax filing obligation due to sales and other business transactions that have taken place within the state.
If you are under audit due to state franchise taxes, we have the expertise to help.
Franchise Tax - Service Highlights
- Review the franchise tax claim and you company’s records during an initial free consultation.
- Perform an evaluation and analysis of your company’s transaction records and tax filings to see how firm a claim of nexus (or other standard being applied) is by the state.
- Draft a response to the state taxing authority to mitigate their demand.
- Represent you before the state tax.
Tax Treaty Positions Denied by IRS
Claiming tax exemptions based on the treaties the U.S. has with other countries is right that citizens of those countries with U.S. sourced income can exercise freely when filing their tax returns. However, there are very specific ways in which it must be done.
Attention to detail is even more important in this area than nearly anywhere else in the tax preparation process. If you accidentally cite the wrong treaty section, the IRS will refuse the exemption. In a worst-case scenario, they may even assess a frivolous filing penalty against you, without a clear explanation. GPL can help untangle such frustrating situations.
Tax Treaty Positions Denied by IRS - Service Highlights
- Reviewing your filed return and IRS notice during an initial free consultation.
- Draft response and prepare any necessary amendments to tax filings.
- Represent you before an IRS examiner.
Tax Liens and Levies
When a tax authority places a lien on your property or levies your income, your world can come crashing down around you – not just your financial life, but every aspect of your day-to-day existence. If you haven’t been addressing your tax challenges properly, you absolutely must do so in this situation, because liens and levies are the deadliest weapons the tax authorities have at their disposal.
This require immediate and expert professional help. Once you are working with GPL our resolution experts will help you mitigate at ones.
Tax Liens and Levies - Service Highlights
- Become familiar with your situation with an initial free consultation.
- Contact the IRS, state or local taxing authority directly to initiate the process of stopping the seizure of your property, and to verify the level of non-compliance that exists.
- Work on securing a levy release.
- Prepare any tax documents and organize any financial statements that must be submitted to the taxing authorities.
- Tirelessly represent you to ensure your fair treatment.
State Sales and B&O Tax
GPL serves clients across the nation, making our tax resolution specialists familiar with the many and varied tax laws that exist from state to state.
Whether you are facing an audit on the personal or business front, we can help. It’s important to present the state with records that support your claim of having made proper tax payments. If you can’t, you will be found in arrears and may face fines and penalties that can cripple your finances and even bankrupt your business.
State Tax Audits - Service Highlights
- Review notices from the state taxing authorities and give you advice during an initial free consultation, no matter where you are in the nation or the world.
- Prepare responses on your behalf.
- Prepare any amended tax documents that may be required.
- Review company’s transaction records and tax filings for accuracy and call discrepancies to your attention.
- Verify your company’s workers’ compensation risk classification is up to date and accurate.
- Review your employment records to verify that you have properly classified employees and independent contractors.
- Represent you before the state auditors, making your case to them on your behalf.
OVDI/OVDP
If you have overseas brokerage accounts or stock holdings, pensions, retirement accounts, savings accounts, or any financial assets other than real estate, worth more than $10,000 in any given year, you may have to disclose those to the IRS.
OVDP (Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program), is an IRS program that made it easier for taxpayers to become compliant with the law, have the possibility of reduced fines, and not be exposed to the risk of criminal prosecution. In 2014 IRS streamlined the program, making it even easier for U.S. citizens living overseas to become compliant. If you think you should take advantage of this program, contact GPL.
OVDI/OVDP - Service Highlights
- Review your situation in an initial free consultation.
- Prepare and submit any required tax documents, including amended returns and applications to the OVDP.
- Present your case to the IRS if your non-disclosure was unintentional and seek further reduction in possible fines and penalties.
- Connect you with tax attorneys specializing in OVDP if it becomes necessary.
IRS Notices
Our extensive experience in the area of tax resolution has shown us that many of the problems that generated notices from the IRS can be resolved relatively easily. The key is to approach the matter correctly and quickly, to avoid unnecessary complications and confusion.
Even if the situation has been allowed to develop into something more complicated and the IRS is becoming aggressive in their collection efforts, GPL can step in and provide you with the assistance you need. Don’t let that IRS notice sit and don’t try going it alone.
IRS Notices - Service Highlights
- Carefully review your notice and propose a course of action during a free initial consultation.
- Prepare any needed written responses, including amended returns that must be filed.
- Organize and prepare documents for submission that the IRS has requested, in a format and manner that experience has shown IRS agents prefer.
- Prepare unfiled returns from past years, as far back as is needed.
- Our enrolled agent will represent you before an IRS auditor in person if needed. You will not even have to attend the audit.
Federal Tax Audits
Few things are more stressful than being audited by the IRS. Whether it’s on the personal or business front, knowing that you are facing the scrutiny of a powerful government agency can lead to many sleepless nights.
If handled correctly, however, the length of an audit can be abbreviated, and your suffering can be reduced. The first step is to make sure have qualified help on your side. Just like you should never represent yourself in a legal proceeding, so should you never represent yourself in an IRS audit. You should let GPL’s enrolled agents represent you.
Service Highlights
- Carefully review your audit notice and propose a course of action during a free initial consultation.
- Prepare any needed written responses, including amended returns that must be prepared.
- Organize and prepare documents for submission that the IRS has requested, in a format and manner that experience has shown IRS agents prefer.
- Prepare unfiled returns from past years, as far back as is needed.
- Our enrolled agent will represent you before an IRS auditor in person if needed. You will not even have to attend the audit.
Franchise Tax
Claiming tax exemptions based on the treaties the U.S. has with other countries is right that citizens of those countries with U.S. sourced income can exercise freely when filing their tax returns. However, there are very specific ways in which it must be done.
If you are under audit due to state franchise taxes, we have the expertise to help.
Service Highlights
- Review the franchise tax claim and you company’s records during an initial free consultation.
- Perform an evaluation and analysis of your company’s transaction records and tax filings to see how firm a claim of nexus (or other standard being applied) is by the state.
- Draft a response to the state taxing authority to mitigate their demand.
- Represent you before the state tax.
Tax Treaty Positions Denied by IRS
Claiming tax exemptions based on the treaties the U.S. has with other countries is right that citizens of those countries with U.S. sourced income can exercise freely when filing their tax returns. However, there are very specific ways in which it must be done.
Attention to detail is even more important in this area than nearly anywhere else in the tax preparation process. If you accidentally cite the wrong treaty section, the IRS will refuse the exemption. In a worst-case scenario, they may even assess a frivolous filing penalty against you, without a clear explanation. GPL can help untangle such frustrating situations.
Service Highlights
- Reviewing your filed return and IRS notice during an initial free consultation.
- Draft response and prepare any necessary amendments to tax filings.
- Represent you before an IRS examiner.
Tax Liens and Levies
When a tax authority places a lien on your property or levies your income, your world can come crashing down around you – not just your financial life, but every aspect of your day-to-day existence. If you haven’t been addressing your tax challenges properly, you absolutely must do so in this situation, because liens and levies are the deadliest weapons the tax authorities have at their disposal.
This require immediate and expert professional help. Once you are working with GPL our resolution experts will help you mitigate at ones.
Service Highlights
- Become familiar with your situation with an initial free consultation.
- Contact the IRS, state or local taxing authority directly to initiate the process of stopping the seizure of your property, and to verify the level of non-compliance that exists.
- Work on securing a levy release.
- Prepare any tax documents and organize any financial statements that must be submitted to the taxing authorities.
- Tirelessly represent you to ensure your fair treatment.
State Sales and B&O Tax
GPL serves clients across the nation, making our tax resolution specialists familiar with the many and varied tax laws that exist from state to state.
Whether you are facing an audit on the personal or business front, we can help. It’s important to present the state with records that support your claim of having made proper tax payments. If you can’t, you will be found in arrears and may face fines and penalties that can cripple your finances and even bankrupt your business.
Service Highlights
- Review notices from the state taxing authorities and give you advice during an initial free consultation, no matter where you are in the nation or the world.
- Prepare responses on your behalf.
- Prepare any amended tax documents that may be required.
- Review company’s transaction records and tax filings for accuracy and call discrepancies to your attention.
- Verify your company’s workers’ compensation risk classification is up to date and accurate.
- Review your employment records to verify that you have properly classified employees and independent contractors.
- Represent you before the state auditors, making your case to them on your behalf.
OVDI/OVDP
If you have overseas brokerage accounts or stock holdings, pensions, retirement accounts, savings accounts, or any financial assets other than real estate, worth more than $10,000 in any given year, you may have to disclose those to the IRS.
OVDP (Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program), is an IRS program that made it easier for taxpayers to become compliant with the law, have the possibility of reduced fines, and not be exposed to the risk of criminal prosecution. In 2014 IRS streamlined the program, making it even easier for U.S. citizens living overseas to become compliant. If you think you should take advantage of this program, contact GPL.
Service Highlights
- Review your situation in an initial free consultation.
- Prepare and submit any required tax documents, including amended returns and applications to the OVDP.
- Present your case to the IRS if your non-disclosure was unintentional and seek further reduction in possible fines and penalties.
- Connect you with tax attorneys specializing in OVDP if it becomes necessary.
IRS Notices
Our extensive experience in the area of tax resolution has shown us that many of the problems that generated notices from the IRS can be resolved relatively easily. The key is to approach the matter correctly and quickly, to avoid unnecessary complications and confusion.
Even if the situation has been allowed to develop into something more complicated and the IRS is becoming aggressive in their collection efforts, GPL can step in and provide you with the assistance you need. Don’t let that IRS notice sit and don’t try going it alone.
Service Highlights
- Carefully review your notice and propose a course of action during a free initial consultation.
- Prepare any needed written responses, including amended returns that must be filed.
- Organize and prepare documents for submission that the IRS has requested, in a format and manner that experience has shown IRS agents prefer.
- Prepare unfiled returns from past years, as far back as is needed.
- Our enrolled agent will represent you before an IRS auditor in person if needed. You will not even have to attend the audit.
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