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About A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief
Thousands of Innocent Spouse claims are filed each year -- this comprehensive and concisely written guide provides you with the framework for representing your client successfully. In straightforward language, the Guide takes you step-by-step through the Innocent Spouse claim process, from information gathering, to administrative proceedings, to determination, to trial, and to refund relief.
Learn:
How to advise clients going through a divorce on whether to file a joint or a separate return.
How to represent the client who did not meet his or her "duty to inquire" when he or she signed the return.
When to argue duress and when to argue abuse in innocent spouse cases.
When the IRS can grant innocent spouse relief even though the tax is attributable to your client's income.
When it might be in your client's best interests to oppose the IRS granting relief.
When it is possible to file a claim for innocent spouse relief after the two-year limitations period has expired.
How to use discovery to identify which equitable relief factors are in dispute.
When to file a motion to shift the burden of proof to the IRS.
How to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees in innocent spouse cases.
When and how to recover refunds in innocent spouse controversies.
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