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		<title>Roni Deutch aritcle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California's attorney general sued "tax lady" Roni Deutch for more than $34 million on Monday, alleging that her law firm regularly violates state law by making false promises that it will help people resolve disputes with the Internal Revenue Service.

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		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/08/24/roni-deutch-aritcle/</link>
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		<title>Article about rip off tax firms on MSNBC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article about rip off tax firm, falls into the trap of over generalization that all firms are bad for the bulk of article, but that is the media world we live in, drama sells.     It is ironic that the Ad for the Today show on the front page of MSNBC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/04/02/article-about-rip-off-tax-firms-on-msnbc/</link>
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		<title>Beware of fake IRS emails-Phishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days, a number of our client’s have reported that they received phishing emails claiming to be from the IRS, one was a CP 2000 notice and the other was an IRS Refund notice.   The IRS doesn’t communicate by email to taxpayers.  Never open or click on an email [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/03/31/beware-of-fake-irs-emails-phishing/</link>
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		<title>What is better than an Offer In Compromise?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The answer is finding out your tax returns were done incorrectly or the IRS is wrong and you are actually getting a refund. 
An Offer In Compromise is not always the best solution for a client, often upon review of their tax returns we find that amending the return is the correct solution, that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/03/16/what-is-better-than-an-offer-in-compromise/</link>
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		<title>IRS Dirty Dozen 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRS publishes this list, well worth reading.
 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued its 2010 “dirty dozen” list of tax scams, including schemes involving return preparer fraud, hiding income offshore and phishing.
“Taxpayers should be wary of anyone peddling scams that seem too good to be true,” IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said. “The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/03/16/irs-dirty-dozen-2010/</link>
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		<title>TV and Call you Tax firm tatics-a new low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we received a call from couple who were understandably frighten.  They had just off the phone with firm, who first promised them their debt could be settled for $500 (without knowing any knowledge or facts about their case), second, when they hesitated and asked questions he scared them into believing they were going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/03/16/tv-and-call-you-tax-firm-tatics-a-new-low/</link>
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		<title>New IRS Offer In Compromise hope for Unemployed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This new step provides greater flexibility for the unemployed when filing an OIC. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/03/13/new-irs-offer-in-compromise-hope-for-unemployed/</link>
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		<title>Nurse wins IRS case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great article.  I applaud her for her tenacity and the amount of time and effort she put forth to ultimately win her battle with the IRS.  I do wonder where her tax preparer was during the audit, it is possible tax preparer may not have been experienced enough to representing her in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/01/20/nurse-wins-irs-case/</link>
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		<title>Article about IRS employer audits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many employers should be very concerned about how they hire contractors yet treat them as employees.  The IRS has specific guidelines on how to classify a contractor verses an employee, some employers may have ignored (or are unaware) the guidelines in hopes that the letter or visit will never come.    The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/01/20/article-about-irs-employer-audits/</link>
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		<title>Another One Bites the Dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Another “tax firm” has closed its doors and left their trusting client&#8217;s in the lurch.  According to their website, Effecture filed Bankruptcy on 9-25-09.  If it sounds TOO good to be true , it is.  The claims made on the late night TV ads are not true and if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2009/11/10/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link>
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		<title>US Treasury Surprise Visit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Last July we received a visit from the an agent from the Department of the Treasury, he informed us that our company name IRS/State Tax Relief Associates, Inc was potentially in violation of a U.S. code regarding the misuse of Department of Treasury names, symbols, etc.  The fact that the IRS approved our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2009/10/28/us-treasury-surprise-visit/</link>
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		<title>IRS warning about fake IRS emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The IRS sends out this warning out one or two times a year to remind taxpayer that the IRS does not use e-mail to communicate with taxpayers.   The link below is to the IRS site.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=211669,00.html
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		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2009/09/10/irs-warning-about-fake-irs-emails/</link>
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		<title>Tax collection agents using facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article appeared the other day and I found it interesting.  It is plausible that if employers are scanning the internet to check up on employees that collection agents would do the same.    
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/AvoidAnAudit/tax-collectors-trolling-facebook.aspx
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		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2009/09/04/tax-collection-agents-using-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Tax Firm TV ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several times a month our firm receives a call from a &#8220;marketing or lead generation companies&#8221; wanting to sell our firm leads from their Television campaigns.  Our policy is not participate in this form of marketing for several reasons.  First, the company that the TV viewers are responding to isn&#8217;t really a tax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2009/09/04/tax-firm-tv-ads/</link>
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		<title>IRS changes to Offer and Installment Agreement standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRS will make changes to Allowable Living Expenses, Transportation, Housing and Utilities, on October 2007.  The new standards are not completely known at this time, but the some of the changes are regarding health and living expenses, cell phone use, and transportation.  The IRS will have a new standard for health expenses for taxpayers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2007/09/18/irs-changes-to-offer-and-installment-agreement-standards/</link>
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