{"id":14337,"date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/coca-cola-may-be-in-for-a-3-3-billion-irs-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:09:27","slug":"coca-cola-may-be-in-for-a-3-3-billion-irs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/coca-cola-may-be-in-for-a-3-3-billion-irs-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca Cola May Be in For a $3.3 Billion IRS Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola Co. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-09-18\/coca-cola-says-irs-wants-3-3-billion-in-extra-taxes-after-audit \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">faces a huge penalty<\/a> in coming up with back taxes the IRS says it owes. How about $3.3 billion in back taxes plus interest! \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/law-offices-darrin-t-mish-p-tax-attorney\/irs-back-taxes\/\">Click here to watch or read more information on IRS Back Taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company is one of the latest to clash over profits that were allegedly made in foreign countries. The IRS is looking at years 2007 through 2009. The IRS has yet to impose penalties and Coca-Cola believe the IRS\u2019s assessment is beyond merit.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">At the heart of the matter is the IRS\u2019s belief that too many companies act to shield profits from U.S. taxes. Coca-Cola is not the only major corporation fighting the IRS. Microsoft and Amazon.com Inc. have their own storms to weather. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can expect that this will be an ongoing thing with the IRS and major corporations. The IRS seems to be revving up its attempts to gain more control over companies that stash money in what it believes to be tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works. Coca-Cola Co. faces a huge penalty in coming up with back taxes the IRS says it owes. How about $3.3 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-irs-audit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22688,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions\/22688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}