Live Stream: IRS Tax Examinations and Hot Issues
235 | Livestream | Intermediate | Scheduled
Description
The Inflation Reduction Act increased the IRS budget. As a result, the IRS continues to replenish its audit workforce. The IRS trains its audit workforce by examining the tax returns of individuals and small businesses. Now, more than ever, accounting, tax and financial professionals need clients to understand the need for documentation and procedures to substantiate what IRS examiners are pursuing. Learn the high audit risk areas and ways to help clients survive an IRS audit with little or no change. It is critical for accounting, tax and financial professionals in public accounting to understand the risk to clients and to themselves in tax return preparation and planning since the IRS continues to increase its audit coverage and is examining more taxpayers than it has in the recent past.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 4.00 | Taxes |
| 3.33 | CLE |
Designed For
Accounting and finance professionals in public practice who prepare tax returns and represent their clients on IRS examinations
Prerequisites
Experience in preparing individual and business tax returns
Highlights
- Criteria that the IRS uses to select returns for examination
- Substantiation requirements for travel, charitable contributions, vehicles, meals, virtual currency considerations and tax-related identity theft
- Understanding worker classification determinations on who is an employee and who is an independent contractor
- Distinguishing S corporation officers' reasonable compensation issues
- How the IRS holds persons other than an employer liable for unpaid payroll taxes, aka the trust fund recovery penalty
- Tax-related identity theft procedures
Objectives
- Understand the IRS process for selecting returns for examination
- Identify the types of returns the IRS is examining
- Understand the hot examination issues that the IRS is focusing on to help clients reduce their exposure to additional tax assessments
- Determine if your client is a victim of tax-related identity theft and the procedures to use to resolve strategies for dealing with IRS examiners and presenting your clients' tax positions in the best light possible
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $189.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $249.00
- Member
- $189.00
- Non-Member
- $249.00
Instructors
John Evanich, CPA
John L. Evanich, Jr., CPA, is a retired tax partner, formerly with CohnReznick, LLP -- the 10th-largest CPA firm in the country. For more than 40 years, John specialized in working with professional service businesses, LLCs, LLPs, and S corporations on tax planning and other tax matters important to them. John has represented taxpayers on hundreds of IRS appeals and court petitions. With over 40 years of experience in public accounting, John is a past president of the Connecticut Society of CPAs (CTCPA), a past member of their Board of Governors, and a former trustee of their Educational Trust Fund. He is also a former member of AICPA Council. Mr. Evanich has lectured and written extensively on tax issues, both locally and nationally. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs.
In 2015 and 2016, he received the Surgent Outstanding Discussion Leader Award because of his consistently high evaluations for knowledge and presentation skills. He has also served as chairman of many CTCPA committees, most notably the Federal Taxation, State Taxation, Public Relations, and Technical Consultation Services committees.
John has also testified on tax matters of concern to middle- and upper-income taxpayers, as well as small businesses, before the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as various Connecticut state legislative committees.
Mr. Evanich received a bachelor's degree in accounting with honors from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut and completed all course work in the Master's in Taxation program at Pace University in New York City.
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