Being audited by the IRS? You don't have to face the auditor alone.
Representation from someone who spent 17 years on the other side of the table.
First: if your letter has a date on it, reach out today. Deadlines in an IRS notice are real, and some of them cannot be reopened once they pass.
Texts are welcome. I'll call you back.
WA CPA License #50082 · Former IRS Revenue Agent
Here's the part most people don't know.
In an audit, each side has something to prove. Without help, the income side gets built and the deduction side never does. That's how these cases go wrong, so we start with the deductions.
tie you to any income it says you didn't report.
prove the deductions.
I know the law, I know what a record has to show, and I walk you through it step by step: what to pull, where to find it, what it has to prove.
Book a free intro callThese usually arrive tangled together. They get untangled in the right order.
- A letter you don't understand, including the ones with a ninety-day deadline
- An audit that has already started, at any stage
- Federal returns you haven't filed, however many years back
- Books that got away from you, or records that are gone
- An auditor asking for documents you don't have
- An appeal, if that's where this should go
In the language of the notices: CP2000 and other underreporter matching, CP3219A notices of deficiency, thirty-day letters, Information Document Requests, correspondence, office and field audits, protests and Appeals. All federal.
Straight answers.
Am I in trouble?
The most important thing you can do is get current as quickly as you can. Getting current on your own, even after a notice, is treated very differently from ignoring the IRS. I'm here to help you move forward and get on track. You aren't in this alone.
Do I have to talk to the IRS?
Usually not. Once you sign a power of attorney authorizing me to act for you, the auditor deals with me, and in most audits you're never in the room. It isn't absolute: the IRS can require an interview, and sometimes the person who kept the books is the only one who can explain them. If it comes to that, I prepare you properly beforehand and I'm there with you.
My records are a mess, or they're gone.
This is the work I know best. Messy records, missing records, no records at all. There is very little I haven't already seen. The IRS has to tie you to any income it says you didn't report. You have to prove the deductions. So we start with the deductions, and I walk you through it step by step.
Do we need to be in the same place?
No. My license to represent taxpayers before the IRS is federal, so I can act for you wherever you live. An audit runs on documents, correspondence and scheduled calls. Being three time zones apart changes nothing except what time we talk.
What happens after the audit?
If the audit leaves a balance you can't pay all at once, I take that work myself: payment plans, offers in compromise, levies and liens, and penalty relief. You don't get handed to someone new halfway through.
Do you handle state or L&I audits?
No. Everything here is federal IRS work. If a state revenue department or Labor & Industries is involved, that goes to someone who specializes in it, and I'll refer you to the right person.
I spent seventeen years working these cases as an IRS auditor. Now I work them for you.
Most representatives learn IRS procedure from the outside, one case at a time. I learned it as an IRS auditor, including in the Special Enforcement Program, and then spent more than a decade teaching it to other IRS auditors, in the classroom and on the job.
So nothing about the process surprises me. I can tell you what a notice actually says and what it doesn't, and what a record will and won't support, before you respond to anything.
I'm licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS anywhere in the country.