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Tony: I have practiced law since 1976, and even though I have had other businesses, I never stopped practicing law. For five years I was in the real estate syndication business, plus I started and owned a couple of other businesses. This has helped me understand the life of the small business owner and their stresses and problems.


In the recent past, I have focused full-time on IRS debt resolution whereas earlier in my law career I had other areas I worked in like, bankruptcy, real estate, and immigration law.

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There are no real warning signs, but you'll get a notice from the IRS that you're under audit.

However, if you take risky deductions, which is something that your tax preparer maybe shouldn't be so aggressive about, or if from one year to the next, he totally changed the way you're reporting different items that might trigger an audit.

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Well, they are all over the place. Some audits are simple, while other are more complicated. I've seen some audits take a couple of years others that take three months. So it's an impossible question to answer, but usually they take longer than you think. 

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Fixed fees. I recommend hiring an attorney that charges you a set fee for services rather than an hourly rate. My experience is that clients want to know exactly what the attorney is going to charge rather than being surprised with a higher than expected legal bill because the attorney spent more time than predicted. Clients can’t decide if they can afford to pay their attorney if they don’t know how much the legal fees will be!

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Sometimes you don't need receipts, but generally you will need to provide them.

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