Tax Controversies - How Do You Work With Tax Advisers?

As an attorney, you're dealing with the a taxpayer representative, typically, which is an accountant. A lot of the i r s audits to day are done by mail, so they're not done in the field. But once you get into a field audit where you're actually sitting down face to face with an iores agent, i think at that point i would be seeking more legal counsel than i would accounting or, you now, c p a type of counsel.