Tax Excuses to Get You Out of IRS Penalties

Darrin T. Mish

Tax Attorney • 32+ Years Experience

Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I'm Darrin Mish — a tax attorney in Tampa who's spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here's what you need to know.

If you have been caught committing an offence like filing your taxes late, claiming relief for fictitious expenses or under-declaring your income, what excuse do you give?  Gone are the days when silly excuses like, “I forgot to file” would work.  These days taxpayers come up with more sophisticated excuses.  Believe it or not, some of them do work and the taxpayer gets let off with just a warning or some other light penalty.

Would you like to know what some common excuses are that people give for their tax offences?  Read on to discover the best and worst tax excuses to fix IRS penalties.

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