Massachusetts IRS Tax Fraud Lawyer
Theodore L. Craft, Esq., LLM, Attorney At Law and Tax Counsel, provides focused, experienced, effective criminal tax defense representation for tax clients throughout the Boston area in many areas involving the potential for allegations of fraud, including but not limited to:
- Tax evasion
- Criminal tax investigation
- Grand jury investigations
- Trial experience
- Sham transactions
- Constructive dividends
In addition to matters involving or having the appearance of involving an IRS or other government investigation-related fraud allegation, Theodore L. Craft, the firm's founder and principal lawyer, serves the public as private counsel in tax matters of all kinds, including:
- Tax collection information
- Trust fund taxes
- Collection due process appeals
- Pursuing cash income businesses
Offshore tax arrangements and defense
- Foreign accounts voluntary disclosure initiatives
- Tax abuses information
- Investigations of foreign bank accounts of U.S. citizens
Taxable estate vs. probate estate and gift issues
How Theodore L. Craft Can Help You
Have you received an IRS tax summons?
Theodore L. Craft seeks to avoid or limit possible problems. You do have rights to object to production in certain cases in response to receipt of a summons upon you or upon a third party. In others your rights are limited or are not legally recognized. Your rights involving a summons must be understood.
Have you failed to file income taxes for several years?
Mr. Craft can help bring you into compliance with the IRS. He will help you and may be able to avoid the harm to be feared in the form of a criminal matter being initiated by the IRS where income or other taxes have been avoided and assets have been acquired and hidden from IRS scrutiny by non fling. In appropriate cases, and depending upon the facts of each case, however, he may be able to work out a financial arrangement up to and including a compromise in your tax liability. More often than not, circumstances warrant civil disposition of a long-term failure to file income and other tax returns and even suspension of IRS collection efforts.
Do you face potential criminal tax charges?
Theodore L. Craft will aggressively defend your rights. His professional and effective efforts serve to protect clients from unwarranted government intrusion. Building support for acceptance of a client's evidence, in whole or in part, will assist him to contravene Government notions of wrongdoing. His goal is to avoid criminal implications entirely. If a criminal tax investigation does result in a prosecution recommendation by the IRS to the Department of Justice, Tax Division, initiated, a case may, in lieu of a criminal trial, result in favorable sentencing being offered and actually resulting from persuasive advocacy having been brought to bear in a Sentencing Memorandum to the judge presiding over the sentencing proceeding. This is accomplished through the process of negotiating a plea agreement and recommendation pursuant to sentencing guidelines to which the government adheres in recommending a sentence.
There are many procedural complexities involved in protecting oneself from financial ruin during IRS audits, investigations, and enforced tax collection. The IRS is subject to various procedures and prohibitions laid down by Congress in all of these areas. If one seeks advice early enough in the process, Mr. Craft can bring effective defenses and insights to bear. Protecting your legal rights, defending you, advancing your cause and your evidence in avoidance or mitigation of the harm of financial loss to you is what we do.
Contact a Boston Tax Representation Lawyer
For a consultation and case evaluation, contact Theodore L. Craft at his office in Melrose, Massachusetts, today.
