Tax
Oct. 15, 2010
Watch Out for Secret Tax Laws
Tax lawyers and courts rely every day on private letter rulings issued by the Internal Revenue Service, but they still can't be admitted as evidence.
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.
While the Internal Revenue Service is a big federal agency and has a plethora of rules and policies, it must treat all taxpayers consistently right? In this age of transparency, you might be surprised that not everyone is treated the same by the IRS. The IRS tries hard to, but as a large bureaucracy it can't always succeed. In fact, there are options that allow taxpayers to ask for rulings on their own situation. When the IRS issues these ru...
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