by Daniel Pilla | Feb 8, 2023 | PTT Featured Article
HOW NOT TO RECONSTRUCT RECORDS Don’t Follow This Formula for Failure Lost or missing tax records are a regular and widespread problem. People lose records for a myriad of reasons, including fire, flood, hurricane, etc. My current client had her storage shed broken...
by Daniel Pilla | Dec 8, 2022 | Urgent deadlines
END OF YEAR TAX PLANNING Nine Simple Steps that Can Cut Taxes and Pain With the end of the year fast approaching, you’re probably wondering what you can do to cut your taxes. Remember: if you wait until April to start thinking about this, it’s just too late. Here are...
by Daniel Pilla | Nov 21, 2022 | PTT Featured Article
CRYPTO CASES TO TOP CI’S “TO-DO LIST” IN 2023You Can’t Hide Crypto Assets The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Criminal Investigation (CI) function is charged with investigating allegations of criminal tax fraud, and assisting the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...
by Daniel Pilla | Sep 2, 2022 | PTT Featured Article
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T KNOW WHAT A TAX CHEAT IS Deliberate Deception Inflames Greed and Envy In his letter to the U.S. Senate (see above), Commissioner Rettig did his part to carry water for the Biden Administration’s push for $80 billion in new funding to...
by Daniel Pilla | Jul 22, 2022 | PTT Featured Article
(WE FILED!) COMPLAINT REGARDING IRS EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT Taxpayers Defense Institute Steps Up to Protect Your Right to Counsel In the June 2022 issue of PTT, we reported on the outrageous statements made by the IRS and Commissioner Rettig regarding your...
by Daniel Pilla | Jun 29, 2022 | PTT Featured Article
SURVIVING THE “GREAT SHRED” OF 2022 How to Keep From Being Victimized by IRS Housecleaning The lead article in last month’s Pilla Talks Taxes reported that the IRS destroyed 30 million tax documents. That article was also published by National Review and...
by Daniel Pilla | Jun 8, 2022 | PTT Featured Article
IRS DESTROYED 30,000 TAX DOCUMENTS That’s One Way to Catch Up As the IRS struggles to dig out of the backlog of millions of unprocessed tax documents and incoming correspondence, it stumbled upon a potential solution to the problem: Why not just destroy the...
by Daniel Pilla | Mar 25, 2022 | PTT Featured Article
Is the IRS Collapsing? The Agency is Groaning Under its Processing Burdens There is little doubt that the IRS is groaning under the burdens of administering the tax code, which now exceeds 4 million words. The question is whether the agency will collapse under...
by Daniel Pilla | Mar 14, 2022 | Tax FAQs
The IRS is getting more money. On Wednesday the House and Senate passed a $1.5 trillion one-year spending bill that ensures the federal government will keep running through October 2022. The bill is heading to the president’s desk, who is expected to sign it....
by Daniel Pilla | Mar 7, 2022 | PTT Featured Article, Tax FAQs
THE IRS WANTS YOUR PICTUREBut It Might Have to Wait a Bit Longer About two months ago I was on the phone with an IRS Revenue Officer (RO) talking about a client’s situation. We got on the topic of the IRS’s backlog of unprocessed tax returns and the difficulty...
