Is a term with many meanings, and at the Law Office of Louis S. Haskell, all such meanings are covered. When most tax preparers advertise “audit defense” all they mean that if you receive a letter from the Internal Revenue Service they will help you reply to it. These sorts of routine matters come up fairly often, and it is something that the Law Office of Louis S. Haskell simply deals with as a matter of course and at no additional charge to its existing tax clients. However, sometimes an audit is a “full blown bring all your financial records and let us figure out where these numbers came from” audit. If the Law Office of Louis S. Haskell acted as bookkeeper, then this type of audit would also be defended at no additional charge.
However, Attorney Haskell is available for every manner of audit defense whether he prepared the tax return or not. Being an attorney, Attorney Haskell is known as an “enrolled” or “credentialed” tax preparer. As a result, he is authorized to represent anybody at any level within the Internal Revenue Service or within the Department of Revenue. This would include a full audit, an appeal of an audit or matters concerning a collection. Most tax preparers are not allowed even to represent their own clients at any level of an appeal or in a collection matter. Many tax preparers are not going to be allowed to assist their clients at all, even in the most routine of Internal Revenue Service matters. Only an “enrolled” tax preparer, which is to say an attorney, CPA, or enrolled agent, can represent someone whose taxes they did not originally prepare before even the lowest levels of the Internal Revenue Service.
In addition to being an enrolled preparer, Attorney Haskell is also a member of the Tax Court Bar and an attorney licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a result, he can take a tax dispute beyond the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of Revenue into the State and Federal Courts.