SaraEA wrote:Read Circular 230, IRC Sections 7216 and 6713 before you hand confidential taxpayer info to Kinko's or Office Depot. You just can't do it. You can, however, cart the docs to the attorney to make the copies. He or she also is beholden to Circular 230 and the IRC.
SaraEA wrote:Read Circular 230, IRC Sections 7216 and 6713 before you hand confidential taxpayer info to Kinko's or Office Depot. You just can't do it. You can, however, cart the docs to the attorney to make the copies. He or she also is beholden to Circular 230 and the IRC.
kathyt wrote:In December (2013) I was given a subpoena for a client in a nasty divorce. I kept the husband as a client (we do his bookkeeping for several businesses they own) and the wife went elsewhere, the wife's attorney sent me a subpoena for all tax returns, records, bank statements, cancelled checks, check stubs, receipts.... for the last 5 years. We had TWO days to get the records together & copied. Normally I never keep stuff like that, but they just had not picked it up in a while, so I had a lot! The total came to 5,610 pages.
So I called an attorney friend and asked what the going rate is, they said between 15 to 25 cents a page; I opted for the higher amount of 25cents because the attorney really ticked me off with that, it was a ridiculous amount of records they asked for & they did it two days before it was due. My entire office (a whopping 3 people) had to drop everything to find all of those thing & copy it.
Anyway, apparently it didn't matter what I charged, because it never got paid. Still waiting, it's been over 6 months now.
I called about it a few times, and he said I'll get paid when the case is settled (when the community property is split). EERRR!!! I feel like hiring an attorney to collect my money!!!
dingus wrote:I have something in my engagement letter that says if we're required to respond to a subpoena that ya'll are gonna get billed at our normal hourly rates...seems like a fair solution to me.
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