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Tax

Oct. 18, 2012

Protocol, procedure are key in tax disutes with IRS

Many taxpayers sometimes pay more tax than they should and sometimes pay less, but nearly everyone at some time receives a tax bill they want to fight.

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.

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By Robert W. Wood


One of Mitt Romney's gaffes on the campaign trail was the statement that no one who paid any more tax than they had to should be president. Then for his 2011 tax year he acknowledged that he didn't claim all the charitable contributions he was entitled to claim. Those seem inconsistent, but many taxpayers sometimes pay more tax than they should and sometimes pay less. But nearly everyone at some time receives a tax bill they want to figh...

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