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	<description>TRA: Your problem with taxes and the IRS or State is our problem!</description>
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		<title>Missing W-2, what to do.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This advice is from the IRS. Make sure you have all the needed documents, including all your Forms W-2, before you file your 2011 tax return. You should receive an IRS Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, from each of your employers. Employers have until Jan. 31, 2012 to issue your 2011 Form W-2 earnings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2012/01/31/missing-w-2-what-to-do/</link>
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		<title>Sound Tax Consulting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We wanted to inform you that we will soon be changing our company name to Sound Tax Consulting, Inc, nothing else is changing.  Our phone numbers, personnel, and address all remain the same.  Our existing email address will forward to the new email addresses to make the transition easier for you. 
We decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/12/21/sound-tax-consulting/</link>
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		<title>Truckers taxes</title>
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Are you up to date  about the Heavy Highway Vehicle Use tax, Form 2290, for the tax period beginning July 1, 2011? Special provisions still apply through November 30 for filing your return and/or registering your vehicle.
Updated as of November 1, 2011
The Form 2290 is available now. If your truck was first used in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/11/19/truckers-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Happy Tax Client letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this letter to express my sincere gratitude to both Sound Tax Consulting (IRS/State TRA)for their help.  Because of their expertise, we saved over $23,000!
In February, we had our taxes done by the same local tax service we had counted on for years.   Except this time, they said we owed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/10/11/happy-tax-client-letter/</link>
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		<title>IRS Announces Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new program that will enable many employers to resolve past worker classification issues and achieve certainty under the tax law at a low cost by voluntarily reclassifying their workers.
This new program will allow employers the opportunity to get into compliance by making a minimal payment covering past payroll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/09/22/irs-announces-voluntary-worker-classification-settlement/</link>
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		<title>IRS increases mileage rate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tax tip.     
The Internal Revenue Service today announced an increase in the optional standard mileage rates for the final six months of 2011. Taxpayers may use the optional standard rates to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business and other purposes.
The rate will increase to 55.5 cents a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/06/23/irs-increases-mileage-rate/</link>
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		<title>Roni Deutch possible jail time-another large TV AD Tax firm in trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We became aware of this problem today for Roni Deutch when a client of hers (crying on the phone after their bank account was levied) couldn&#8217;t reach anyone at her office this week.  The client would call and be told &#8220;no one was in the office&#8221;,  this client paid over $4,000 over a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/04/22/roni-deutch-possible-jail-time-another-large-tv-ad-tax-firm-in-trouble/</link>
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		<title>ABC News Report on Tax Masters April 13, 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might find this news story ABC ran on April 13, 2011 about Tax Masters informative.   Always please do your due diligence and research any firm before you hire them.   In many cases you do not need to hire a firm.  
&#8220;The Minnesota attorney general says many of the company&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/04/20/abc-news-report-on-tax-masters-april-13-2011/</link>
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		<title>IRS/State TaxRelief Associates nominated for 2011 BBB Business of Year Torch Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our firm was notified by the BBB on January 11,2011 that we had been nominated for the Better Business Bureau&#8217;s 2011 Business of year Torch Award.   We are honored to be nominated.   
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		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/02/06/irsstate-taxrelief-associates-nominated-for-2011-bbb-business-of-year-torch-award/</link>
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		<title>2010 Tax Return filing delay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IRS reported today: Generally, taxpayers who itemize their deductions by using Schedule A, who claim the higher education tuition and fees deduction or who claim the educator expense deduction must wait a few more weeks to file their returns. Based on historical filing patterns, the IRS anticipates the delay impacts about 9 million taxpayers; in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2011/01/19/2010-tax-return-filing-delay/</link>
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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://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://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://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://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://irstaxreliefassociates.com/blog/2010/03/16/irs-dirty-dozen-2010/</link>
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