IRS notices and audit representation in North Carolina

IRS and state notices are deadline-driven documents. Most give you a fixed window to respond, and your options narrow as it closes — so the worst move is the drawer, and the second-worst is calling the agency unprepared. First steps: note the deadline, don't ignore the letter, and don't sign or pay anything you don't understand.

As a licensed CPA, Phuong can represent you directly before the IRS and state departments of revenue — responding to notices, handling correspondence and field audits, and negotiating penalties — so you don't sit across from an examiner alone.

The tax outcome of a sale is mostly fixed before the agreement is signed. Asset deal or stock deal, how the price is allocated, what happens to the entity — each of these moves real money between buyer and seller, and none of them can be renegotiated after closing.

We work on either side of the table: due diligence on the target's books and tax history for buyers, and structuring the deal for sellers — modeling the after-tax proceeds of each structure so you negotiate the number that actually matters.