All taxpayers can meet with employees of the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS this week extended the capability to those who work with the IRS’ large business division.
New guidance, Video Meetings with LB&I Taxpayers and their Representatives PDF, requires LB&I employees to grant large business taxpayer requests for video meeting via IRS-approved platforms
LB&I is responsible for IRS activities of domestic and foreign businesses
with a United States tax reporting requirement and assets of $10 million or more, along with the Global High Wealth and International Individual Compliance programs.
Other areas in which the IRS is working virtually with taxpayers included the expanded use of secure email and a virtual reading room that enables large LB&I taxpayers and IRS to share read-only documents
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind