Tax Law Offices

What the firm handles

The firm is a tax practice based in Naperville, Illinois, and its clients are individuals and businesses that face the IRS and state taxing authorities. Its work covers audits, back taxes, and collections. An audit can come from the IRS or from a state revenue department, and the response often decides how much a taxpayer owes at the end. The firm also handles tax liens and levies, which are the tools the IRS uses to secure and collect an unpaid balance.

Beyond collection matters, Tax Law Offices takes on payroll tax liability and Trust Fund Tax Penalties. These cases reach business owners and officers who can be held personally responsible for employment taxes withheld from workers. Payroll disputes tend to move quickly, since the government treats withheld funds as money held in trust. The firm also assists with offers in compromise and IRS payment agreements, which are two of the settlement routes the IRS uses most.

Criminal tax work sits on the roster as well. The firm handles IRS criminal investigations and criminal tax defense. In my opinion, keeping civil resolution and criminal defense in the same practice matters, because a civil audit can turn into a criminal referral on the same set of facts.

How the team is built

Tax Law Offices names four attorneys on its site, and their backgrounds point in several directions within tax practice. Two of them list admission to the U.S. Tax Court, which is the forum where a taxpayer can dispute a bill before paying it.

The lead attorney

Jeffrey Anton Collins leads the team. He is a tax attorney with an LLM in taxation, and he is licensed to practice before the IRS and the U.S. Tax Court. He holds Illinois Bar number 6276436. He is a former IRS official and a retired CPA, and he focuses on cases involving tax debt above $100,000. He works from the Naperville, Illinois and Charleston, South Carolina locations.

The wider team

Kylie Ray is an associate attorney whose work centers on federal and state tax controversy, including IRS and state audit defense. She earned a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University and a law degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law, where she served on the Tulsa Law Review. She belongs to the Oklahoma Bar Association and is admitted to the U.S. Tax Court.

Leonard W. Jones is an attorney with a transactional and business background. His work covers discharge of tax in bankruptcy, real estate tied to tax matters, and protection of insurance and retirement assets during bankruptcy and IRS defense. He is the criminal defense attorney for Tax Law Offices. He is also a career U.S. Army officer who reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and he works from Camp Springs, Maryland.

Jeni Roberts is an attorney who handles state tax matters, penalty reduction, and lowering tax liability. Penalty reduction work often argues reasonable cause, which asks the IRS to waive a penalty when a taxpayer acted in good faith. Alongside the attorneys, the firm lists an enrolled agent and staff who handle case analysis, client intake, and customer care.

Reach and how the work gets done

The firm keeps one Illinois office, and it represents taxpayers across the United States and its territories. That breadth fits federal tax practice, since IRS procedure runs the same way in every state, and U.S. Tax Court petitions follow one national set of rules. A client in another state can work with the Naperville team on a federal matter by phone or video. The firm lists Charleston, South Carolina and Camp Springs, Maryland as places its attorneys work from, which spreads its coverage past a single city.

To support clients at a distance, the firm works by phone, email, fax, and video. The firm also offers service in Spanish. As a reviewer, I read the mix of remote channels and a national footprint as a practice built around federal matters handled through IRS channels and the U.S. Tax Court.

What the practice areas involve

The services the firm names follow set IRS procedures, and a short map helps set expectations. An audit begins with an examination notice and a request for records, and it can end with an acceptance of the return, a bill, or grounds for appeal. Back taxes and collections move through notices first, then liens and levies if the balance stays open. Each stage has its own deadlines, and missing one can narrow the options that remain.

Offers in compromise ask the IRS to accept less than the full balance, and they turn on documented income, expenses, and asset equity. IRS payment agreements spread a balance over time under set terms, which suits taxpayers who can pay in full given enough months. Trust Fund Tax Penalties reach the people a business relies on to remit payroll taxes, and the IRS can pursue them in their own name.

Criminal tax defense is a separate track. It can begin with a civil audit that raises questions about intent, then move to the IRS Criminal Investigation division. Collins holds credentials on both the civil and criminal sides, and Jones carries the criminal defense role, so the firm can staff a case as it moves between the two.

What the pages document

The site does not state a founding year, so readers who want that history will need to ask. What the pages do record is a tax-only focus, four named attorneys with tax and Tax Court credentials, and a leader who spent part of his career inside the IRS. That inside experience can help a client understand how the agency weighs a case.

Those facts give a taxpayer a clear picture of who does the work and what the firm covers. The practice handles the audit, collection, settlement, and criminal sides of tax law, and it names the attorney tied to each. Collins holds an LLM in taxation along with CPA experience, Ray works tax controversy, Jones covers bankruptcy and criminal defense, and Roberts works on state tax and penalty reduction.