NOTE--Location for Meeting
Cleveland Park Library, 2nd Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Wash., DC

You filed your business and personal tax returns. Now your mail includes a letter from the Internal Revenue Service. Why?

At this presentation you'll get information you can use on how to prevent IRS scrutiny of income and employment tax returns. Former Internal Revenue Agent Richard Chisholm will also share tips and techniques for responding to and resolving IRS questions and inquiries when they do arise. An overview of taxpayer rights during IRS investigations and audits will be included in the presentation as well.

A question and answer session follows the presentation, so gather your questions and join us. 

Speaker: Richard Chisholm has more than 14 years of experience counseling business and individual clients on the legal, financial, taxation, and business effects of a wide range of transactions including the formation, operation, and dissolution of business enterprises, and shareholder, partnership, and buy-sell agreements. A former Internal Revenue Agent, Mr. Chisholm represents businesses and individuals for audit, collections, and tax litigation matters and in disputes with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities, and before the U.S. Tax Court.

Richard Chisholm also advises clients on a wide variety of estate planning issues, including the administration of trusts and estates, and the use of trusts and other entities for asset protection planning. In addition, he consults on immigration issues involving the finances of small businesses and is qualified as an expert witness before the U.S. Immigration Court. 

Mr. Chisholm received a JD with honors from the Howard University School of Law in 1994 and a B.S. in accounting from Frostburg State University in 1985. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Tax Court, and the Maryland Court of Appeals. He has been licensed as a CPA in Maryland since 1987. In addition, Richard Chisholm is a lecturer at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, in the area of estate and gift taxation.

Richard Chisholm may be reached at rchisholm@rewlaw.biz.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. (There are many restaurants suitable for pre- or post-meeting gathering/networking/refreshment in the block north of the library.) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Free and open to all

Speaker Richard Chisholm plans to join us for this informal gathering on Saturday.

Several times a year a smaller group (about 4 to 14) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open 2 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

Join us!