Massachusetts IRS Tax Audit Attorney Resolving Complex Tax Problems
The law practice of Theodore L. Craft focuses chiefly upon defense of clients' rights in adversarial proceedings involving civil and criminal tax issues before the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Justice, Tax Division, and in the courts.
Theodore L. Craft represents clients and their business interests in highly sensitive tax inquiries and/or investigations. Although most tax inquiries arise primarily through IRS tax audits, they might arise out of IRS compliance enforcement efforts against non filers for required tax returns or collection of assesed taxes. Moreover, the IRS may conduct criminal investigations administratively or through a grand jury investigation initiated to review evidence of tax crimes. The chief emphasis of Attorney Craft's practice, then, is to resolve, in the end, difficult situations in a manner most favorable for clients. Knowledge and experience in tax procedure, evidence, interpretations of case law and, most importantly, effective written and personal advocacy in and out of court is the qualitative difference sought out by clients of the firm.
More Than Three Decades of Tax Law Experience
Attorney Theodore L. Craft has more than 35 years experience in tax law. He has resolved hundreds of tax cases with the Internal Revenue Service. He works with the IRS Regional Appeals Division to achieve administrative settlements. He brings civil cases to settlement or trial in the in the United States Tax Court. He represents clients in defense to federal and state criminal tax prosecutions. He has also taken appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on behalf of clients.
Attorney Craft was trained in service as a trial lawyer in the Office of the Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, National Office, and the Department of Justice, Tax Division. In service as associate counsel in Tax Refund Litigation in the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS National Office, Washington, D.C., he was liaison to the Department of Justice Tax Division, Civil Trial Section, developing complex national tax litigation positions and strategies and participating in bringing three cases to the United States Supreme Court. He was later trained in prosecuting and evaluating complex financial crimes in the Tax Division, Criminal Enforcement Section. After leaving Washington, D.C. to become Senior Trial Attorney in the Boston office of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel he served on the Federal Strike Force Against Organized Crime, assisting the Department of Justice in investigating and prosecuting tax crimes committed in an area of Boston then known as "The Combat Zone," and since revitalized as a safe area for theaters and the arts, affluent high-rise apartments and popular restaurants, all in the vicinity of the Boston Common.
You can confide in Attorney Ted Craft for the most demanding audit, summons enforcement, civil appeal or criminal investigation defense and he will be effective for you, bringing the highest quality of judgment and procedural experience obtainable to the table. Contact his law office today by using the information on this website.
Defense Against Tax Abuse Allegations
The IRS may attack transactions reported on tax returns for many reasons. It may, for example, deny tax benefit claims relating to what it views to be "shams," that is, transactions entered into solely for tax advantage and without economic substance. It may also seek to impose income tax upon business owners for "constructive dividends," which benefits received by corporate owners and/or officers through uses of business assets and/or income for their personal, undeclared [and often hidden] benefit.
Settlements on terms favorable to clients in tax cases of this nature require intuitive negotiation skills and extensive procedural knowledge in the area. With his experience in dozens of these cases, Attorney Craft provides a valuable legal service by reason of his insight into the viability of IRS tax abuse allegations. In addition to defense in economic substance and constructive dividend cases, he:
- Defends those accused of fraudulent practices or criminal tax violations
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Defends those charged with tax crimes
- Negotiates plea agreements in appropriate cases
- Defends against IRS tax abuse allegations
- Defends clients in tax shelter and abuse cases, including in non-disclosures of foreign offshore account activity matters investigated by the IRS
Contact a Boston Attorney Skilled in Tax Law Procedure
Theodore L. Craft, Esq., LLM, Attorney at Law & Tax Counsel, understands tax statutes, case law and IRS procedures. He possesses a high degree of advocacy skill, written and oral. He succeeds in obtaining the best obtainable result for his Clients in negotiations with the IRS and in court. As an advisor, advocate and tax defense attorney, Theodore L. Craft is determined to prevail.
For a consultation regarding a tax matter, Contact his law office today.
