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Question: Estate Tax question….I think the PR made an error?

My cousin was personal rep for my late aunt’s estate…in Michigan. Everything I have read indicates that the first 2 million dollars of the estate is tax exempt. The estate was only $274,000, so should be totally exempt, yet my cousin paid over $30,000 in 2006 estate tax and about $3,000 to Michigan estate tax. NOW comes the kicker…2 days after he signed the final papers ending his responsibility for the estate, he died! Am I right that he should not have paid the $30,000 and $3,000 because of the exemption that SHOULD have been taken? NOW WHAT???? I just received final papers to sign that will go to Probate and then I will receive my part of the estate. If I sign, and that $30,000 was paid in error to the Feds, can the estate recoup the money? What should I do? The attorney apparently assumed that the return filed was correct or he would not have sent us the final papers to sign off on . I know $30,000 is not a big sum, but to me, 1/4 of that is a lot of money!

Answer: How does this sound for a first step? Call, send a letter or email to the atty who sent you the papers what you think the error is and why you think there is an error. He should be able to quickly figure out if their was a mistake and if so file and amended return and get the money back or explain to you why your cousin was correct in paying the taxes.

Cash-strapped states rethink Hollywood tax breaks

Thanks to a tax break used to lure Disney filmmakers away from North Carolina to coastal Georgia, Harry Spirides figures his beachfront hotel raked in an extra $85,000 because Miley Cyrus spent a summ

Insights In Law: Property Tax Foreclosures

Question: Does the IRS verify documents that are sent for a correspondence audit, ie call landlord to verify lease?

My landlord and I had a falling out and, although I have a lease signed by him for the tax year I am being audited for, I am afraid that if the IRS calls to verify my lease with the landlord, he will deny my tenancy.

Answer: If the document was properly executed and legal, there’s little your landlord can do to deny its existence or its terms. At most he’d say that certain terms were varied orally, but he has to prove that.

LCCAA financial troubles lead to furloughs, transitional center closure

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A local nonprofit organization’s mounting financial problems have led to the stoppage of important services that support some of the county’s most vulnerable citizens, a situation which local officials and other nonprofits are trying to address as quickly as possible.

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Question: Tax Attorney in Florida Reccomendations needed!?

Dear Friends,

I plan to hire a Tax Attorney or Criminal Defense Attorney with expertise in Tax Law in order to meet with an IRS Criminal Investigation Officer, since my friend was requested by this officer to meet him in his office.

Any recommendation of experienced attorney in Florida, preferably in Miami area, will be greatly appreciated.

Kevin

Answer: I don’t have a true reference, but I just went and searched on “tax attroney miami florida” and here are the results.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DAUS,DAUS:2006-11,DAUS:en&q=tax+attorney+miami+florida

Will corruption grand jury bring charges, change or just hot air?

Interim report reads as a plaintive cry of frustration When a grand jury issues a report instead of indictments, it can be seen as running a white towel up the flagpole.

Miami Criminal Tax Attorneys White Collar Crime FL

Question: Is anyone in need of legal representation and cannot afford a lawyer?

When you need an attorney who will you call?
Have you.. thought about writing your will?
been audited by the IRS?
purchased a home?
recieved a moving traffic violation you thought was unjustified?
had any type of legal question?
signed a contract of any kind?

Answer: I got a public defender. It cost me a total of $25.00 and the sentence was reduced by over half.

Tax Strategies for Charitable Giving

Five tax-friendly ways to give to your favorite causes

IRS Problems Houston: IRS Harassing You? Get FAST Relief

Question: Can you file a second “Offer To Compromise” with the IRS if one already was rejected by appeals department?

My attorney submitted an Offer to Compromise to the IRS to resolve an outstanding tax debt. The IRS made a counter offer and my attorney said that he felt he could get them to come lower. He submitted my case to the IRS appeals department. It appears that my attorney dropped the ball in subsequent communications with the IRS and, due to not responding in a timely manner, my appeal was rejected. I just want to know if I still have the option to submit a new Offer To Compromise or if the rejection of the old one makes me not eligible.

Answer: You can always submit a new offer. You at least have an indication of what IRS wants and you can show how that is excessive.

I am an enrolled agent, a tax specialist licensed by the US Treasury Department Office of Professional Responsibiltiy (not IRS employees) to represent taxpayers the same way as attorneys and CPAs and specialize in clients who have substantial outstanding tax liabilities or long periods of failing to file returns. If you do not want to continue with the same attorney and would like some additional information outside this forum, you can send me email through my profile.

IRS reminding tax preparers to get ID numbers

The Internal Revenue Service plans to contact more than 15,000 Alabama tax preparers and 9,000 Mississippi tax preparers this week to remind them that they must renew their Preparer Tax Identification Number in order to prepare federal tax returns in 2011.

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