Tax Lawyers Group, A Professional Law Corporation

Focus and practice areas

The firm, Tax Lawyers Group, APC, is based in Los Angeles, California, and works on federal and state tax matters. Its listed services include IRS tax audits, sales tax audits, criminal tax investigations, tax fraud cases, offers in compromise, and tax levies. It also handles tax bankruptcy and SBA loan debt settlement.

The practice areas page reaches past disputes into planning. It lists estate planning and business formation, so the firm covers forward-looking work as well as active tax problems. Business formation covers the setup of a company, such as the choice of entity and the filings that bring it into being, while estate planning covers how assets pass on through documents such as wills and trusts. In my opinion, that pairing fits a tax practice, since the same clients often need both a defense today and a structure for what comes next.

The agencies the firm appears before

Much of the work centers on four tax authorities. The firm represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service, the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, and the Employment Development Department.

Each body covers a different part of the tax system. The IRS runs federal tax. The Franchise Tax Board handles California income tax. The Department of Tax and Fee Administration oversees sales and use tax. The Employment Development Department deals with payroll and employment tax. A firm that names all four takes on both the federal and the state side of a taxpayer's file.

How tax disputes tend to unfold

The services the firm names follow familiar paths, and a plain description helps set expectations. A tax audit opens when an agency questions a return and asks for records that back up the figures. The taxpayer, or counsel acting for them, answers with documents and explanations until the agency closes the review or proposes a change.

When a balance is already owed, the tools shift. A tax levy lets an agency reach wages or accounts to collect, so timing matters once one is threatened. An offer in compromise runs the other way: it asks the agency to accept less than the full amount, and the taxpayer files financial records so the agency can weigh ability to pay against the balance claimed.

Two of the firm's listed services carry higher stakes. A sales tax audit checks whether a business collected and paid the right amount on its transactions, and it can turn on records that go back several years. A criminal tax investigation moves further still: it can pass from an agency's fraud unit toward prosecutors, and counsel at that stage handles the tax figures and the legal exposure at the same time.

Bankruptcy and debt settlement

Bankruptcy is one of the firm's core areas. The firm handles Chapter 7 tax bankruptcy, which can discharge certain older income tax debts once specific timing and filing rules are met. A bankruptcy court reviews the petition and the supporting schedules before any discharge takes effect.

The firm also lists SBA loan debt settlement. That work involves loans backed by the Small Business Administration, where a borrower who has fallen behind negotiates the remaining balance owed. As a reviewer, I note that pairing this with tax collection work keeps one team across two kinds of government-linked debt.

How the team is built

The website names three attorneys, each listed as Attorney at Law: Victor J. Yoo, Norman Kreisman, and John Jahrmarkt.

Around those names, the firm describes a mixed staff. It states that its people include tax attorneys, former IRS Revenue Agents, a former intern to United States Bankruptcy Court judges, seasoned tax lawyers, and Certified Public Accountants. That blend keeps accounting and legal skills under one roof, which counts when a tax file turns on numbers as much as on law.

The former IRS Revenue Agents on staff point to a specific kind of knowledge. Revenue Agents are the people who examine returns and run audits inside the agency, so lawyers who once held that role bring a view of how the other side builds a case. That background can shape how a firm answers an audit or frames an appeal.

Offices and stated experience

The main office is in Los Angeles, and the firm lists six more locations. Those offices are in Pasadena, Studio City, Torrance, Long Beach, Oakland, and Honolulu, Hawaii. The firm says it serves clients across California and Hawaii, and it adds that it represents taxpayers in other states and abroad. Cross-border tax questions often turn on reporting duties for foreign accounts and income, so a client abroad can still face United States federal rules.

On tenure, the firm describes itself as having over 25 years of experience and uses the phrase "since its establishment." The site does not list a specific founding year. Tax Lawyers Group offers its audit, settlement, criminal tax, and Chapter 7 work from offices in seven cities across two states.