https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/getting-smart-about-past-due-taxes-and-tax-returns/ Actionable Insights from Small Business CPAs Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/getting-smart-about-past-due-taxes-and-tax-returns/#comment-2009 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:26:08 +0000 http://evergreensmallbusiness.com/?p=2201#comment-2009 And to the tax professionals, always get good size retainers on these engagements.
Your new client may not like the results of your findings and could easily disappear on you after you’ve invested a good amount of time on their work.
In most cases someone not overly concerned about paying the IRS is certainly not going to worry about paying accounting and tax fees promptly.
Several times I’ve had initial meetings with these type of taxpayers never to be heard from again once i requested a retainer in advance.

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