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What Tax Litigators Should Demand From a Net Worth Assessment Rebuttal
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What this analysis will cover
Written for tax counsel. A net worth assessment stands until it is displaced, which makes the accounting rebuttal the load-bearing document in the dispute. This piece sets out what a line-by-line methodology rebuttal should contain — opening net worth, non-taxable sources, double-counted deposits, arithmetic — and how counsel and the CPA divide the work.
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The mandate this analysis supports
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