Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Pleading the 5th in Tax Cases

Forbes ran a really interesting read, which can be found here. The article is by Robert Wood and discusses how in tax cases, pleading the 5th can usually be used against you and at times, does not even work.

This really stresses the role practitioners can play by keeping the IRS away from clients. When the IRS is doing what they are supposed to, they do need to go through the practitioner before going to a client. That can help shield a client from some additional IRS scrutiny.

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