So we have two methods of communication at the firm: we have email and we have phone calls. We don’t have text messages and the reason we don’t have text messages is because text messages are very hard to track internally and we like for all of our calls and all of our emails to come in and be documented so that they go into your file. If for some reason I’m out of the office one day, our senior attorney can pick up the file, can read through the notes and the history of communications, and be in lockstep with me and the decisions that I would make on the course of your matter. So the best way to handle communications from our firm is by segregating what the best type of communication is for longer explanatory things and things that are better reduced to writing, we prefer email. It helps get thoughts in order and we can more easily move emails under the file, although emails take a lot of time to compose sometimes so we tend to shy away from those.
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How Long Should I Expect My Case to Last in the Firm?
The firm average about six months we have some that are longer and we have some that are much shorter longer or shorter depends.
What Makes Brotman Law Unique?
So I point to a couple of different things when I differentiate our firm from other firms. The first thing I would differentiate is that our firm is really built for businesses, for business owners and for corporate officers, and the reason for that is is I’m a small business myself. I love being a small business and I love all the challenges and the excitement and the risk that comes with running your own business. When I set up my tax firm, I wanted to build a business that catered to the need of businesses and to help those businesses help their clients and be the best platform that they could be so I designed a firm around not only fixing people’s tax problems but working with small businesses to make them the best versions of themselves that they can possibly become. A lot of that is accomplished through tax and the thing that we’re doing but it’s a gateway for something much much larger. Number two I would point to our experience in separating ourselves from other firms that are out there. We have a lot of experience particularly in dealing with
What Are Things That I Should Look for When Hiring a Tax Attorney?
I have a favorite saying in the office which I used with a number of my clients. It’s called right person, right seat. So the important thing in any professional services relationship whether it’s a tax attorney or a CPA or any other professional advisor is making sure you have the right person sitting in the right seat to do the right job. The problem with a lot of tax attorneys is a lot of tax attorneys focus on federal issues and they focus on a very limited scope of federal issues. The reason for that is a lot of the traditional tax litigation appears in a judicial setting. So when you’re interviewing a tax attorney and they mentioned they go to court a lot that should be a sign that perhaps this person may or may not be
How Are Sales and Use Tax Audits Different?
Companies are selected for sales tax audits in a variety of different ways but the one thing I want to highlight is that the state has very limited resources in terms of which companies it chooses to audit. Sales tax audits in particular are tremendously resource consuming activities, so the state has to be very careful about which companies it selects for audit and which it doesn’t. So for example the way
How Are Companies Selected for Audit? Why Am I Being Audited?
Companies are selected for sales tax audits in a variety of different ways but the one thing I want to highlight is that the state has very limited resources in terms of which companies it chooses to audit. Sales tax audits in particular are tremendously resource consuming activities, so the state has to be very careful about which companies it selects for audit and which it doesn’t. So for example the way
What Are the First Steps I Should Take in a Sales Tax Audit?
These audits are very complex and the reason that they’re complex is they involve a very large degree of data. So for example, when you’re dealing with an income tax audit you can go through a company’s bank deposits and determine pretty quickly how much income they had or didn’t have. With a sales tax audit you’re dealing with taxable sales so if you picture a restaurant, for example. Say your average restaurant does a hundred transactions in a day over
What Does the CDTFA Sales Tax Audit Process Look Like?
CDTFA auditors are looking for mistakes. They’re looking at your data, they’re looking at how that data relates to each other, they’re looking at the returns that were filed and they’re looking for any errors that exist. The most common errors are discrepancies between primary source data and the sales tax returns that were filed. For example the sales on your federal income tax returns don’t match the sales that were filed on the sales tax returns.
What Do CDTFA Auditors Look for in a Sales Tax Audit?
CDTFA auditors are looking for mistakes. They’re looking at your data, they’re looking at how that data relates to each other, they’re looking at the returns that were filed and they’re looking for any errors that exist. The most common errors are discrepancies between primary source data and the sales tax returns that were filed. So for example, the sales on your federal income tax returns don’t match the sales that were filed on the sales tax returns. The auditor will find that error and figure out a way to calculate what the true percentage of sales were or at least true from the auditor’s perspective.
What Are the Risks for Tax Payers in a Sales Tax Audit?
The biggest mistake that I see taxpayers make and the biggest area of risk that they have is the dangerous assumption made by taxpayers that because they “didn’t do anything wrong” in the sales tax audit, they don’t have anything to fear. The reality of the situation is that the auditors are looking for mistakes in the way that the taxpayers filed their sales tax returns and in the amount that they paid. The auditors are devoting a significant amount of time and energy to going through all the taxpayer’s data and verifying their taxable sales so the reality of the situation is is that even if you don’t feel like you made a mistake,