Course · 7 lessons · 31 min · Working

Audit Defense & Documentation

Building claims that survive contact with an examiner.

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Syllabus

Audit-ready documentation: what holds up and what does notBrief · 3 min The R&D credit documentation playbook: what to capture, when, and whyGuide · 9 min Reading a cost segregation study the way an IRS examiner wouldGuide · 7 min Anatomy of an IRS exam: from first letter to 30-day letterBrief · 3 min The IRS Independent Office of Appeals: protests, hazards, and when to use itBrief · 3 min The Section 6662 accuracy-related penalty, and how specialty credits trigger itBrief · 3 min Statutes of limitations: assessment, refunds, and why timing kills late claimsBrief · 3 min

What you’ll be able to do

Build contemporaneous files that map evidence to legal tests
Anticipate the specific challenges examiners raise on specialty claims
Navigate IDRs, 30-day letters, and the exam timeline
Decide when Appeals is the right forum
Assert reasonable-cause and disclosure defenses correctly

About this course

Specialty tax positions are won or lost on the file. This track covers contemporaneous documentation as a discipline, what IRS examiners are instructed to challenge, the exam process itself, Appeals, and the penalty rules that decide how expensive being wrong turns out to be.

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