Controversy
A notice carries a date. The options narrow as it approaches.
An assessment, a proposed adjustment, or a notice of determination arrives with a statutory deadline attached, and the positions available on the day it arrives are not the positions available thirty days later. Protest rights lapse. Appeal windows close. Amounts that could have been resolved at audit become amounts that must be litigated or paid.
The firm represents taxpayers through the full lifecycle: audit defense and the management of information document requests, protest, appeal before the Office of Tax Appeals, settlement, and refund claim. Representation is before the California Franchise Tax Board and the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, and before the equivalent taxing authorities and appeal forums in other states.
The work is senior throughout. The person who assesses the notice is the person who writes the protest and the person who appears.