Tax
Oct. 21, 2014
Tax system should be fair — and perceived as fair
There is no way to entirely prevent getting audited. While the Franchise Tax Board often piggybacks on whatever the IRS has done, the FTB sometimes audits even where the IRS does not.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601
Phone: (415) 834-0113
Fax: (415) 789-4540
Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
Fair warning, there is no way to entirely prevent getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service or by the California Franchise Tax Board. The FTB often sends a tax bill when the Internal Revenue Service is done with you, piggybacking on whatever the IRS did. But the FTB also has its own audit staff and sometimes audits even where the IRS does not.
Apart from the usual fear of what to claim and what to avoid, though, there is a new f...
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