The Ferraro Law Firm
Washington D.C. — Miami, Florida
Corporate employment as a CFO, tax analyst, controller, audit manager, financial analyst, or CPA involves dealing with very sensitive financial information, including details regarding the company's means of avoiding U.S. taxes, on an occasional or sometimes daily basis.
If you are a corporate finance, accounting, or tax professional, the new IRS whistleblower statute provides you with a significant financial incentive to report any information you have about tax avoidance and tax underpayments to the government. Our attorneys can protect your identity while the IRS evaluation of this information is ongoing and work to maximize your award.
To discuss a potential IRS whistleblower claim in confidence— contact The Ferraro Law Firm.
Why Hire an Attorney?
While you do not need to have an attorney representing you in order to provide information or receive a reward determination from the IRS, having an attorney can assist you in several ways. An attorney can help protect your identity while the investigation and case are ongoing. A lawyer can also help to ensure that ALL of the information needed to maximize your award is prepared and presented in the right way and to the right people.
An IRS whistleblower claim does not have to stem from outright tax fraud. Any simple mistake, even the transposition of a number that results in a tax underpayment of more than two million dollars, can lead to a significant reward.
As you and our attorneys know, companies often take aggressive tax positions to minimize their tax liability. Very few of these aggressive tax positions actually involve fraud. Many of these methods involve hyper-technical readings of the applicable code and regulations, the use of circular or deceptive transactions, which are designed to escape IRS scrutiny, or abusive tax shelters In most cases, a company's practice of taking aggressive positions on what would be viewed as standard "grey area" issues can lead to substantial tax underpayments. These "grey area" issues are ripe for tax whistleblower claims.
While the tax avoidance schemes may seem clear to you and to us, the IRS often misses these issues even when they are auditing a taxpayer. If the IRS agents do not understand the facts or law underlying your claim, they may choose not to investigate. Our lawyers are adept at the art of dealing with the IRS and understand that sometimes more than just a little information is needed to get the agency moving. We can explain the issue to the IRS the same way that your outside counsel has explained it to your management.
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The Ferraro Law Firm assists corporate finance and tax professionals from both here in the U.S. and from abroad with IRS whistleblower claims under the new statute. If you are employed in these fields and have information concerning large-scale tax underpayments that you would like to discuss with an attorney, call or contact our Washington D.C. or Miami, Florida, area offices for a discrete and confidential consultation.
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