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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 LiveMiddlesex/Somerset Chapter

Foreign Financial Reporting & How to Represent a Cash Business in Federal and State Tax Audits and Investigations (E1601259)

8:15 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Registration: 7:30 AM EST

Fairbridge Hotel and Convention Center (formerly Somerset Holiday Inn)

195 Davidson Avenue
Somerset , NJ 08873

4 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

BENEFITS

Earn 4 CPE credits in Taxation.

HIGHLIGHTS

Navigating Foreign Waters: FATCA and the Complex U.S. Laws for Foreign Accounts Compliance
Parag Patel, Esq.
With FATCA, the United States is aggressively targeting US persons with unreported offshore accounts. All tax professionals must know benefits and pitfalls of complex US laws for offshore accounts. We will review the US rules of foreign account disclosure, FBARs: who needs to file, what to file, accounts that must be reported, and the potential liability of the taxpayer and tax advisor. We will identify best practices for compliance and discuss the benefits and pitfalls of the US disclosure programs for noncompliant taxpayers.

How to Represent a Cash Business in Federal and State Tax Audits and Investigations
Frank Agostino, Esq.
The IRS and the New Jersey Division of Taxation continue to focus their efforts on cash-intensive businesses. When representing a cash business in federal and state (NJ) tax audits, it is important to understand that the NJ Division of Taxation has broad authority to determine tax from any information available, and that the IRS is authorized to use any method that clearly reflects income in order to determine a taxpayer’s liability. Understanding how revenue agents conduct their examination by examining the scope of their authority, what methods they use, and the limits to their powers are essential when rebutting the presumed accuracy of their assessment and reducing the potential assessment in order to yield the optimal audit results for the taxpayer.

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

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INSTRUCTORS

Frank Agostino

Frank Agostino, J.D., LL.M.

Partner

Agostino & Associates, P.C.

Frank Agostino is the president of Agostino & Associates, P.C., a law firm in Hackensack, New Jersey specializing in civil and white collar criminal litigation, tax controversies and tax planning.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Agostino was an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service's District Counsel in Springfield, Illinois and Newark, New Jersey. He also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, where he prosecuted primarily criminal tax cases.

As an adjunct professor, Mr. Agostino taught tax controversy at Rutgers School of Law and served as the co-director of the Rutgers Federal Tax Law Clinic.

Mr. Agostino is a frequent speaker and author on tax controversy and litigation matters. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure. Mr. Agostino is actively involved with the American Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers' Association.

Mr. Agostino is also the President of the Taxpayers Assistance Corp., which provides tax and legal advice to low income taxpayers in the NY/NJ area.

Parag Patel

Parag P. Patel, J.D., LL.M. (Tax)

Tax Attorney

Parag P. Patel, Esq.

Parag is a tax attorney with the Patel Law Offices in Iselin. His practice concentration is in tax, business transactions and estate planning. He is a board certified estate planning law specialist, a board certified elder law attorney, and a frequent speaker on legal issues affecting tax, offshore tax planning and estate planning. Parag was named a New Jersey Super Lawyer by New Jersey Magazine for tax and estate planning. He has also received an AV rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating System, which is the highest professional rating possible among lawyers. He is the 2011/12 chairman of the Tax Law Committee of American Bar Association’s GP Solo and Small Firm Division. Parag also serves as a part-time municipal court judge for Edison Township. He is a member of the New Jersey State, New York State, Middlesex County and American Bar Associations.

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