Spring 2014
5254 Tax Controversy & Litigation - VASQUEZ JR/VASQUEZ SR/MINTZ-
Added 5-8-13
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Credits: 2
Course Areas: Taxation
Blakely Advocacy Simulation
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Course Outline: The Tax Controversy and Litigation course will cover the tax controversy process, starting with handling an IRS audit, administratively protesting before IRS Appeals, and representing a client before the United States Tax Court. Students will be instructed in taxpayer/client interview techniques and counseling, case evaluation, negotiation and settlement techniques, and trial techniques and strategies. At the Tax Court level students will learn: preparation and filing of the Tax Court Petition, Tax Court pre-trial procedures, presentation of the case and post-trial briefing.
The course will be taught in the simulation format that is used in Trial Advocacy courses.
This two-credit course brings U.S. Tax Court Judge Juan F. Vasquez to Houston to teach a course on Tax Controversy and Litigation. His fellow teacher will be Juan F. Vasquez, Jr., Shareholder of the law firm of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin.
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Course Notes: Juan Vasquez Jr., Juan Vasquez Sr., and Jordan Mintz. This class will meet over the following four Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings: January 31, February 1, February 7 and 8, February 21 and 22, and March 7 and 8, 2013.
NO FINAL EXAM!!!
Prerequisites: Yes Federal Income Tax.
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Satisfies Skills Course Requirement: No
Satisfies Senior Writing Requirement: No