Getting Rid of Tax Penalties (Presented by Tax Rep)

Eric L. Green, Esq., Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Green & Sklarz LLC

Eric L. Green is the managing partner and co-founder of Green & Sklarz LLC, a boutique tax firm with offices in Connecticut and New York, and the founder of Tax Rep LLC and the Tax Rep Network — the country’s leading training and coaching program for tax representation practitioners. His practice focuses on civil and criminal taxpayer representation before the IRS, the DOJ Tax Division, and state departments of revenue. Eric is a nationally renowned tax expert who has lectured to more than 70,000 practitioners, is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a past Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Tax Section, and the host of the weekly Tax Rep Network podcast. He holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from Hofstra University, a J.D. (Honors) from New England School of Law, and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. Prior to practicing law, he was a senior tax consultant at KPMG and Deloitte & Touche.

• Education & Credentials

Eric holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting with a minor in International Business from Hofstra University, a Juris Doctor with honors from New England School of Law, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts and is a member of the U.S. Tax Court Bar. He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel — a peer-nominated honor reserved for those at the top of the tax law profession — and holds the Certified Tax Representation Consultant (CTRC) designation through the program he co-developed with Becker Professional Education.

• Recognition & Leadership

Eric has been recognized by Connecticut Super Lawyers in the field of Tax and was the 2010 Nolan Fellow of the American Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a past Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Tax Section and the ABA’s Closely Held Businesses Tax Committee. His Tax Rep Network has trained over 500,000 tax, accounting, and legal professionals annually and is the profession’s most widely used IRS representation training platform. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, and Consumer Reports Financial News.

• Professional Involvement

Eric is the founder and principal instructor of Tax Rep LLC and the Tax Rep Network, through which he delivers the weekly Tax Rep Network podcast, webinars, live conferences, and the Annual IRS Representation Conference. He is a frequent lecturer for the ABA Tax Section, the AICPA, the NATP, the NAEA, and numerous state CPA and enrolled agent societies. He co-developed the Certified Tax Representation Consultant (CTRC) certification with Becker Professional Education and previously served as adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he taught taxpayer representation
in the low-income taxpayer clinic. He is also a co-author of a casebook for clinical programs assisting low-income taxpayers with federal income tax controversies.

• Experience

Before founding Green & Sklarz LLC, Eric served as a senior tax consultant at KPMG and Deloitte & Touche — experience that gives him an unusually grounded understanding of how large-scale accounting practice and IRS representation intersect. At Green & Sklarz, he has built a national reputation for negotiating favorable settlements in thousands of civil cases and for convincing government agents to resolve criminal investigations civilly. He founded Tax Rep LLC and the Tax Rep Network to extend that expertise — and his practical teaching approach — to practitioners across the country who want to build or grow their own tax representation practices. His career represents the rare combination of elite technical expertise, prolific national education, and entrepreneurial platform-building that has made him one of the most recognizable names in American tax representation.

SESSION 1 – Getting Rid of Tax Penalties | 9:30 am – 11:40am

Those late-night commercials make it sound just so easy, but how do you get rid of tax penalties? This program will cover the various penalties applied by the IRS, and the various ways practitioners can seek to have them removed. The program will cover First Time Penalty Abatement, abatement for reasonable cause, and how to lay the groundwork for avoiding penalties during the audit.

BREAK | 10:30 am – 10:40 am