Tax This!: An Insiders Guide to Standing Up to the IRS [Paperback]

Scott Estill (Author)

Book Description

Series: Tax This!: An Insider's Guide to Standing Up to the IRS | Publication Date: December 15, 2009

Every year, millions of Americans run into problems dealing with the Internal Revenue Service. Written by a former IRS attorney, Tax This! An Insider s Guide to Standing Up to the IRS gives taxpayers the edge in dealing with the IRS by showing you how to fight the IRS and win!

This new and updated edition gives Americans the information and tools they need to tackle tax issues themselves and avoid hiring an expensive tax professional. A previous edition was rated one of the top five tax books by the Wall Street Journal!

Tax This! contains tips on both business and personal tax issues. Topics covered include:

* What does the IRS know about you and your business?

* The audit process: What are the odds?

* The IRS collection process

* Settlements: How to pay pennies on the dollar.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Concise, practical, and eminently readable, Tax This! remains the resource for evening the playing field. --Jonathan P. Decatorsmith, Adjunct Professor of Law and former IRS Senior Trial Attorney

About the Author

Scott Estill is a tax attorney and former IRS Senior Trial Attorney who now operates his own law practice in Denver. He specializes in handling IRS controversies including audits, criminal investigations, trials, and collections. Estill also addresses business meetings, conferences and seminars on the subject of dealing with the IRS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Self Counsel Press; 7th edition (December 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551808935
• ISBN-13: 978-1551808932
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tax This hits the mark, January 31, 2000

By 

jonathan decatorsmith, esq. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tax This!: An Insider's Guide to Standing Up to the IRS (Self-Counsel Legal Series) (Paperback)

As a former IRS trial attorney, and current adjunct professor teaching federal income tax procedures at the graduate university level, I have made it my business to read most every book written about the Internal Revenue Service. With very few exceptions, these works are either strident, reactionary diatribes rooted in paranoid, conspiracy theory or dry, academic treatises devoid of any real insight into the inner workings of the IRS. Mr. Estill's book is neither; rather,it is a refreshing departure that provides a realistic approach to dealing with the various problems that arise in our federal tax collection system. The book is eminently readable - useful for both the layperson wishing to tackle the bureaucracy him or herself, as well as the experienced practitioner who wants the insider's perspective and some valuable strategies. Mr. Estill's unique ability to explain complex processes with clarity, and his pragmatic advice for negotiating the pitfalls inherent in each of the IRS functional divisions, makes this an important addition to the field, and mandatory reading for anyone with more than a passing interest in the way our country administers tax collection.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great insight into dealing with the IRS, April 27, 2003

By 

Robert J. Nagel (Evergreen, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tax This! An Insider's Guide to Standing Up to the IRS (Self-Counsel Legal Series.) (Paperback)

If you're faced with an encounter with the IRS, I would highly recommend getting this book for starters. Most tax experts will tend to steer you in one of two directions: knuckle under or fight the IRS up to and including jail time (for you, not the expert.) You need to understand what your options are before you seek outside help because all too often the outside help has an agenda that is not in your best interests.

This book does an outstanding job of laying out realistic stategies and options for helping you with tax issues and for working with, rather than against, the IRS to obtain the best possible outcome. It offers a refreshing change in the tax literature. By offering well-grounded, honest advice in a well-written fashion, this book should be in the hands of anyone seeking to resolve a tax problem without "giving away the farm" to the IRS.

Learn what your options are and how best to work with the IRS and you'll save yourself a lot of grief and a lot of green.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 29, 2000

By 

Mark deWain (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tax This!: An Insider's Guide to Standing Up to the IRS (Self-Counsel Legal Series) (Paperback)

I found this book to be very helpful for those who are in trouble with the IRS. As a tax professional, I often am contacted by clients who receive IRS notices. Most of these cases are pretty simple matters, and could be resolved without my involvement, if only the client new a little more about the IRS, as wasn't so intimidated by them. This book helps chart a course of action to take when dealing with the Service, and shows the average taxpayer that dealing with the IRS does not have to be the nightmare that most people think it is. I highly recommend this book.