how to become a tax attorney?
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Im currently in the process of becoming a tax attorney or corporate lawyer, I cant decide.  I have completed my undergraduate degree in accounting and I am in an MBA program.  Also, I am applying to law school for fall 07.  The university I attend has a J.D. program where I can get both my law degree and MBA at the same time while reducing the number of hours incurred by pursuing them independently.  For specifically tax law/attorney, I would suggest an undergraduate degree in preferably accounting, a MS accountancy or MBA and law school.  Also, it is a very good idea to test for the CPA as mentioned earlier.  Keep your GPA as high as possible and do as well as you can on the LSAT, everything else is destiny.
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First, don't be overly concerned as to what you should major in. A student who declares his major when he applies for the freshman year will change his major, on average, four times before he graduates. You should major in what you enjoy the most and you will know a lot more about what you like after you have taken some college courses. You should be aware that to be an attorney you will have to attend law school after earning your bachelor's degree. You can major in almost anything and go to law school but you would be well advised to take a fair amount of history and government courses.\n\nAs to your interest in business, if you want a degree in accounting I would suggest that you take a five-year course that would give you not only a bachelor's degree but would prepare you to take the CPA examination, after you have the appropriate amount of experience.\n\nIf you don't like computer engineering, I would guess that a major in computer science might not be the best way to go for you. Most computer programmers that I have known have had a tendency to burn out and turn to something else, such as teaching computer science. If you have any interest in teaching, however, that is an excellent field but you would have to include the professional education courses in your credits in order to teach at the secondary level.\n\nI think you have applied to excellent universities and that you should visit as many of them as you can to get a "feel" for how you would like them.\n\ns
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My brother has been a CPA in private practice for about 17 years.  He earns well into the six figure territory.  He's in partnership with another CPA.  They have one CPA candidate who works for them and an office staff of about 6.  Our dad was also a CPA in private practice.  We grew up in a nice home and never wanted for much.\n\nYou need to have 3 years accountancy experience (after completing your BA) before you can sit for the exams.  That's like a medical internship and the employers know it.  Expect not a lot more than minimum wage during that period -- and expect to be worked nearly to death as well.  If you get lucky enough to land an internship with a "Big-8" firm, expect to spend most of your money on clothes.\n\nIt will probably take several shots to pass the exams.  Don't fret failure, very few pass these the first time around.  Once you pass a section, you don't need to retake it; you'll just retake the parts you failed.\n\nOnce you pass the exams, your income potential will be pretty much unlimited.  How much you can earn will be up to you.\n\nAfter 20 years in the biz, my brother loves the $$$ but hates the drudgery.  He's trapped by the lifestyle that he and his family have become accustomed to.  That's a hazard in many careers, though.
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In Ca. you need an AA Degree with 36 units of law credits then you can go to law school, which only a few are accepting just an AA.  Most times, a BA degree is needed first which is four years at college, then on to law school.  Law school is four years and intense.  The hardest part I think is passing the STate Bar Exam after you're all done and many fail it their first few times.\nYou need to find the laws in your own state.  Get on the web and look for your states bar assiciation and call them, they can give you the criteria or it may be on their web site.  Another way is to simply call an Attorneys office tell them you are interested in becoming an attorney and would like to know what the states law is on education for it...................good luck.............
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To be any kind of lawyer, you must first get your bachelors, then go to law school, another 3 years.  Then you can decide what kind of law to practice.
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You need to do several things to become a lawyer.  First, you have to go to law school after college.  Law school is 3 years.  Then, you have to take and pass an examination (called the bar exam) in most states.  (A few states allow graduates of their own law school to skip the exam.) After you pass the bar exam, you apply to the Supreme Court of the state in which you want to practice law, Florida in your case.  You have to show that you have never been convicted of a crime, that you are not bankrupt, etc.  Once you have passed the bar exam and your application is approved, you take an oath and can practice law in that state.\n\nSalaries vary a lot for young lawyers.  Starting salaries in the biggest cities for the most-sought-after graduated can be well over $100,000, but this is VERY unusual.  This kind of money is paid by a relatively few large law firms who hire only the best-qualified graduates of the most highly rated law schools in the country.  These are, roughly speaking, the Ivy Leage law schools (Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell), plus other top-notch law schools like Duke, Stanford, the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, California, Texas and Virginia, and a few others.  \n\nMost new law school graduates earn far less than that.  Moreover, many take jobs in government and elsewhere that are not strictly lawyer's jobs.  Some go to work for public interest groups representing poor people or working on civil liberties issues.  These lawyers earn small incomes but get great personal satisfaction.  Of course, some new lawyers go out on their own, "hanging up a shingle" and seeking out clients.\n\nLocations?  There are lawyers in every town large enough to have a courthouse.  But most of the jobs, and all of the highest paying ones, are in large cities.\n\nGood luck!  And keep your grades up.  The best law schools take only the best undergraduate students.
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An estate planning and taxation attorney (with LLM) should be able to assist you.\n\nIf you can't find a referral from friends or family, go to this web site to look for one http://www.lawyers.com/?site=466&CMP=KA20068&county=&city=&state=46  Your state Bar associate may also have recommandation.\n\nBest wishes.
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If I were to do it all over, I would go into real estate law.\n\nI work with attorneys on a regular basis, and I have never seen a real estate attorney actually do any work.  All they have to have is a good relationship with a mortgage lender or two, a good title researcher and an office and they are virtually assured of several thousand dollars in legal fees per month.\n\nConstitutional law is more glamourous, but it's a lot of work and doesn't pay all that well.\n\nCorporate law pays well, but there is a high potential for being held accountable for bad advice.\n\nCriminal defence is easy to get into, can pay well and isn't all that difficult most of the time, but people will hate you for "putting murderers and rapists back on the street", even if that's not what you do.\n\nCriminal prosecution is good, but you will be under lots of pressure to maintain high conviction rates.\n\nPersonal injury (and the like) pays well, but you won't have any friends or self-respect.\n\nFamily law is ok, but you bust your hump to keep a sufficient client base.  Since most people's need for legal council is minimal, you will need quite a lot of clients.\n\nReally, they all have their pros and cons (except real estate law), so I would suggest doing what interests you.  You can always change fields later (and many lawyers do).\n\nHope this has been helpful.  Good luck to you.
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Go to law school and become a lawyer.
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Leverage your taxation experience!  Next month is the start of "high season" for tax professionals, so the job hunting should be good.  Most accounting firms, and accounting departments of companies, need people with  experience in that field.\n\nEmphasize your taxation experience on your resume and look for accounting jobs that need taxation experience.  Do a search on Indeed.com or your local Craig's List to see who is hiring.  Or, look up accounting firms in your location and just start calling them to see which one needs people with taxation experience.\n\nUse the tax experience to get your foot in the door - even as a temp - work hard (and as well as you can), and you'll probably get an offer to stay.\n\nOr, go to H&R Block or another company that helps people file their income taxes and get work through next April (in the U.S., anyway).\n\nGood luck!
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You will need their booklets/instructions/forms from your client.\n\nYou will need to learn the applicable laws on taxable/not-taxable.\n\nYour client will need to provide sales figures (monthly, quarterly, annually depending on law).  \n\nDepending on what type of business they do, this could be a nightmare, or really simple.  I'm sure NYS has a website devoted to this, find it and see if it will be something you want to get into.
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* Attorney\n* Do it yourself\n\nIf you do it yourself, go to the Secretary of State web site for the relevant site, e.g., Texas, and look for forms. They should have the form for the Articles of Incorporation. (However, you might not want a corporation, and might want an LLC or an LP. To make this decision, talk to your CPA or an attorney.)
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Well, first i strongly suggest you get a law degree and actually practice law for some time.  Then like any other business, when you have enough money, you can acquire more information
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Why not call a tax attorney (some offer a free first consultation).  Find out from him/her what you need to do, how to handle it and what can happen to your fiance if he gets caught.\n\nMany times, a tax attorney can work out a deal with the IRS where you only pay a fraction of what you owe.  As I see it, contacting an attorney, even if you have to pay, is probably the best way to go.
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If you are thinking of becoming a certified public accountant in California, there are two important goals to focus on -- passing the CPA exam and meeting licensing requirements.\n\nIn order to qualify to take the CPA exam, you must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, including 10 semester units in accounting and/or auditing, and 35 semester units in other business-related courses. If you do not have a bachelor's degree, you must have at least 120 semester units of coursework, including 10 units in accounting and 35 units in other business-related coursework.\n\nYou may also have the equivalent education from a foreign college or university. Foreign transcripts must be evaluated by board-approved Academic Credential Services, and evaluations must be submitted to the California Board of Accountancy either prior to applying for the CPA exam, or with the exam application.\n\nThe education requirements can also be met by receiving a passing grade in Board-specified preliminary examinations provided by the College Level Examination Program, along with 10 semester units of accounting from an accredited college or university, or by being a member of a Board-recognized foreign accounting society.\n\nCourses that fulfill the 35-unit requirement for business and/or accounting include: \n\n   Economics (no minimum/maximum)  \n Management (no minimum/maximum)  \n Finance (no minimum/maximum)  \n Business administration (no minimum/maximum)  \n Marketing (no minimum/maximum)  \n Computer science (6 units maximum)  \n Commercial law/data processing (6 units maximum)  \n Business communications (3 units maximum)  \n Mathematics of finance (3 units maximum)  \n Statistics (6 units maximum) \n\n\nIn determining accounting/auditing courses, do not include taxation courses, unless the title specifies "accounting" or "auditing." Taxation courses are recognized by the Board under the "business-related" category, and not toward meeting the minimum required 10 semester units of accounting.\n\nIf your college units are in quarters, you must multiply your total units by two-thirds or .666 for the semester equivalent.\n\nThe four-part, two-day CPA exam is given twice a year, in May and November. For detailed information about the test, or requirements to take it, call the California Board of Accountancy's exam division at (916) 263-3955. A brochure titled "Information for Certified Public Accountant Candidates" is available on request.\n\nApplication requests may be obtained by writing, calling or sending a fax request to the Board office. Write the California Board of Accountancy, Examination Unit, 2000 Evergreen St., Suite 250, Sacramento, CA, 95815-3832; or call the Board at (916) 263-3953; or send a fax to (916) 263-3675. Exam applications will be released around Feb. 1 for the May exam, and around Aug. 1 for the November exam.\n\nLicense Requirements\n\nAfter passing the CPA exam, the next step is to apply for a license. CPA candidates must have worked under the direct supervision of a licensed CPA for two, three or four years, depending on their education level. That experience can be gained before or after taking the CPA exam. The California Board of Accountancy also has a guideline that CPA candidates should complete 500 audit hours in order to receive their licenses. Requests for licenses from candidates who do not have 500 audit hours will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the board.\n\nDetailed information about licensing requirements is available from the California Board of Accountancy.   If your last name starts with the letters A through G, call (916) 263-3946; H through Q, call (916) 263-3945; and R through Z, call 3947.
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Personal goals?  Business goals?  \n\nGet your degree in Accounting.  Take the CPA, CMA and CFM exams and become certified.\n\nFigure out what you want.  Write it down.  Set a time frame.  Then go for it.
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Locate the accounting firm that you want to work for and ask them what educational requirements they require.\n\nYou may be surprised to learn that they only require a High School Diploma or GED.  The reason for this is that they have in-house programs and would prefer to train you on their systems, rather than have you educated by someone else then have to spend months reprogramming you to how it is done in THEIR company.