How to win in tax court – tax court help
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petitioners to the u.s. Tax court generally think that trials and courtrooms are where you talk about the law.
they are about the facts. The law speaks for itself. Or more accurately, the judge applies the law to the facts that you establish at trial.
but you never talk about the law before the facts are on the record. At best, raising questions of law before the trial will confirm for the court and your opponent that you don’t know what you’re doing. At worst it will give your opponent the rope he needs to hang you.
you will eventually need to argue the law, but not before you ve done battle with the irs using: these rules have the force of law in the courtroom. Trial lawyers succeed and fail by them. Courtroom battles are over the admission and exclusion of evidence, not over the law.
by knowing this simple fact you know more than 99% of people going to tax court on their own. And the rules are not long or complicated. You can easily learn them and use them to your advantage. The natives are not there to help you. Their job is to extract every dollar they can from you and they are good at it.
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