Tax Fraud / Criminal Investigations Continued

In tax crime cases, the multi-tiered approval process can work to your advantage. The process gives you a number of different opportunities to derail a federal criminal case before it ever gets to grand jury. At each of the IRS approval levels and at the Department of Justice Tax Division level, your lawyer will have the opportunity to schedule a conference where he or she can sit down with government attorneys and attempt to convince them to decline prosecution of the case. If the government has a strong case against you, it is unlikely that he or she will be successful in convincing either the IRS or the Department of Justice Tax Division to refrain from prosecuting. However, if there are misunderstandings that can be explained away and the government can be convinced that there was no criminal conduct, you have the opportunity to convince the government to decline prosecution prior to grand jury. It is always less stressful to have your attorney address matters in meetings with government attorneys than to present your side of the story to a jury at a federal criminal trial.

Also, in tax crime cases it is important to have an attorney who is not only well experienced in federal criminal matters, but who also has significant experience in federal criminal tax cases. If you are comfortable with a lawyer who is experienced in federal criminal defense but lacks tax experience, consider adding a former CID agent to your defense team. However you accomplish your objective, you will want both federal criminal defense and tax crime experience on your side.

In the event you are concerned about a criminal investigation you may e-mail us at gcoulter@gctaxlawyer.com, contact us by going to and completing the Assistance Form or call us at one of our phone numbers 1.888.5TAXLAW or 706.546.9755 or fax us at 706.546.1796.

A power of attorney is necessary for us to represent you before the IRS. You may download IRS Form 2848 and send it to us by completing lines 1 and 3, and executing it on line 9. Fax the form to us and mail the original.

Once we analyze your tax problem and you agree for us to represent you we send you an engagement letter by E-mail, fax or mail as you direct. When this is returned we will immediately start on your case.

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