Jim Buttonow
Jim Buttonow is the Managing Principal of JL Buttonow, CPA, PLLC. Jim has over 37 years experience in tax and accounting. Jim’s specialty is IRS Practice and Procedure – more commonly referred to as a tax problems, IRS controversy, or tax disputes.
His extensive knowledge, shared in numerous publications, led to his being voted to Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People for two years. Jim has helped thousands of taxpayers and the largest firms and tax preparation companies in the world. Jim was the chief architect and inventor of the post-filing tax controversy software, Beyond415, that is used by tax giants such as Thomson Reuters and H&R Block to help their clients with tax problems. Jim has also provided strategic leadership to numerous other tax firms and financial service providers, including Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, to enable them to work better with the IRS.
Jim’s book, The Tax Problems and Solutions Handbook, is published by Commerce Clearing House (CCH) tax research division and has sold thousand of copies. The Handbook provides tax professionals practical solutions to the most common tax problems facing their clients. Thousands of tax professionals use his book everyday, along with his webinars, to resolve their clients’ IRS issues.
Jim and his team provide tax controversy consultation and representation services to both tax clients and tax firms.
Our services include:
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IRS Tax Account Review and Consultation Service: If you have a tax problem/issue or just need to get some answers about your status with the IRS. The IRS Tax Account Review and Consultation Service is available to both taxpayers and tax firms and their professionals.
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Tax Controversy Representation: representation before the IRS and State taxing authorities to resolve tax disputes. We represent individuals, businesses of any size, employers, and specialty taxpayers before the IRS and State Departments of Revenue.
- Tax Firm Consulting and Training: best practices, systems, and problem-solving training for tax professionals to get the best outcome for their clients and monitoring systems to ensure their clients stay in good standing with the IRS. Jim also provides government relationship services.
Specific areas of practice:
- IRS and State tax authority examinations (individual, small business, large corporation, tax exempt, and employment audits)
- IRS and State tax collection matters (income tax, employment and trust fund taxes, sales and use taxes, and penalties)
- IRS and State penalty abatement relief
- Return filing discrepancies and adjustments (individual, business, tax-exempt, and employment tax returns)
- IRS Appeals (examination, collection, employment tax, penalty and related issues)
- IRS compliance systems and responses (notices, automated compliance systems)
- Tax-exempt organization examinations and issues, including related employment tax examinations
- Tax office best practices and systems to proactively avoid and address IRS tax issues and notices
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