Practice Areas & Cases

The Hoard Law Firm has the tax knowledge and litigation experience to respond to any IRS tax challenge.  The Firm has extensive courtroom experience and a proven track record.  We represent corporate and individual taxpayers at all civil tax controversy levels, including IRS audits, appeals conferences, trial and Circuit Court appeal litigation.  We also represent taxpayers in administrative and grand jury criminal tax investigations ensuring that targeted individuals are not indicted and prosecuted for issues that should be more appropriately handled as a civil matter.  In all matters, we seek to resolve the issues as early in the process as possible in order to avoid litigation and minimize expense.

We work in conjunction with other tax professionals and in-house counsel to explore multiple defense strategies that can bring a fresh perspective to an IRS tax challenge.

Reported Civil Tax Cases Include:
Peaden v. Commissioner, 113 T.C. 116 (1999).
Caracci v. Commissioner, 118 T.C. No. 25 (5/22/2002)
Estate of Brockenbrough v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 1998-454.
Moore v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2004-259.

In addition to the reported cases listed above Ms. Hoard has successfully settled tax controversies involving many varied tax issues including, but not limited to, tax shelter/sham transaction cases, Section 29 energy credits, the deductibility of illegal payments under Section 162, Section 71 alimony tax issues, employment tax cases, worker classification determinations, hobby loss cases, exempt organization issues, excess benefits transactions and much more.  She has also successfully represented individuals targeted for criminal tax violations including tax evasion and false return.

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