Employment Taxes – IRS Issues and Resolutions

Recorded Webinar | James Pickett | From: Dec 17, 2020 - To: Dec 31, 2020

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This 2-hour webinar will give you an overview of IRS employment tax issues and the various paths to resolve IRS employment tax controversies. Understanding the many facets of employment tax compliance including issues involving reportable amounts for FICA, FUTA, and SUI taxation, the impact of incorrectly classifying workers as independent contractors, and the paths to successfully resolve employment tax controversies are the fundamentals required to effectively represent clients before the IRS. Knowing how to address these particularly challenging cases will lead to more timely and successful employment tax controversy resolutions.

Learning Objectives:-

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Have a basic understanding of the two-major employment tax compliance areas that frequently lead to IRS employment tax controversy;
  • Gain knowledge of reporting errors and employee classification errors.  
  • Learn the best practices for proactively addressing these compliance issues before they become a matter of IRS controversy. 
  • Additionally, often misunderstood related employment tax topics will be explained and accompanied by practical guidance for handling these when they arise. 

Who Should Attend?

  • Tax Professionals
  • Tax Attorneys
  • Human Resources Personnel
  • Payroll Administrators
  • Small Business Owners
  • Corporate Executives 

James Pickett

James Pickett is a Director in our Tax Controversy practice, where he is responsible for helping clients manage their tax disputes involving both field and correspondence audits, post-audit issue resolution including representation in IRS Appeals, IRS penalty and collection notices, claims, and other tax compliance-related matters. He is a former IRS manager with extensive tax compliance experience conducting complex tax audits and supervising and training IRS agents.

Prior to joining Bennett Thrasher, James worked for the Internal Revenue Service for over 29 years in which he served in various positions in the three largest divisions of the IRS. During the last six years of his IRS career, he was a Team Manager in the Large Business and International (LBI) Division where he supervised a team of Revenue Agents conducting the largest corporate IRS audits throughout several states. At the IRS, James worked in multiple assignments as a Revenue Agent conducting corporate income tax, employment tax, and individual income tax audits. In addition to his extensive compliance experience, he also served in several non-compliance assignments with the IRS in which he conducted tax training events, helped write and produce various IRS publications, provided IRS assistance to the public, and handled media relations.

James also had a parallel career as an Army Reserve officer retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel after 28 years of service. In addition to his IRS career, he also has prior employment experience in the banking, pharmaceutical, and consumer product industries. James graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Auburn University and later earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Auburn University at Montgomery. James is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).