Our focus is therefore on the enforcement aspects of the tax law. We deal with audits, appeals, penalty and interest assessments, Collection Due Process appeals, refund claims, computer notices, Innocent Spouse cases, employment tax matters including the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty, collection matters including Offers in Compromise, Installment Agreements and “hardship” determinations, Tax Court litigation of every description, tax related bankruptcies, and all other enforcement issues.

The educational material is written by Dan Pilla. It forms the basis of what every tax professional must know to effectively represent clients in trouble with the IRS. Dan literally “wrote the book” on penalty abatement, Offers in Compromise, Collect Due Process appeals, and audit and appeals practices. His techniques are sound, based squarely upon the law, and most importantly, they work. The procedures Dan teaches are the kind of thing you simply do not get any place else.

Each year, our Taxpayers Defense Conference draws professionals from around the nation who become informed and inspired by Dan’s live presentations of the latest nuances to IRS procedures and relevant tax law changes. These two-day conferences are attended by attorneys, accountants, enrolled agents and unenrolled tax preparers with a hunger to learn more about how to protect their clients in the ever-changing world of IRS compliance and problems resolution.

As a TDI member, you’ll have unlimited access to all our members through our email list-serve and members’ contact information. This is how our members exchange advice, ideas, strategies and guidance on a daily basis. This gives you the ability to interact, at any time, with our members who work on problems resolution cases every day. Our membership consists of some of the finest attorneys, CPAs and enrolled agents in the country, many of whom have been TDI members for over 20 years. A number have been members since we started in 1993. This gives you direct access to a team of people with first-hand experience in dealing with the IRS at every level.

And that’s not all. As a TDI member, you’ll have direct, personal access to Dan Pilla. You’re entitled to call Dan directly whenever you need specific help, guidance, ideas, or just a second opinion on one of your cases. And it doesn’t matter what kind of case it is. Whether it’s an audit, appeal, Tax Court case, Collection Due Process appeal, Trust Fund Recovery Penalty, or any other IRS enforcement issue you can name, Dan has seen—and done—it all.

Areas include:

• Audits and appeals,
• Collection enforcement such as liens, levies and seizures,
• Collection defense matters such as installment agreements, Offers in Compromise, innocent spouse claims and Collection Due Process appeals,
• Correspondence problems including error and adjustment notices,
• Penalties and interest assessments and abatements,
• Criminal investigations and prosecutions,
• Tax-motivated bankruptcies,
• Civil and criminal administrative summons defense and enforcement issues,
• Procedural issues for the US district courts and the US Tax Court,
• Small business audit and collection issues,
• Tax shelter enforcement,
• Employment tax issues, including assessments and appeals related to the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty,
• Independent contractor disputes,
• Administrative and judicial refund and abatement claims,
• Mediation and Arbitration issues both within the IRS and the US Tax Court,
• Recovery of professional fees and costs, and more.