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Steven Mopsick
Federal Tax Attorney
Mopsick Tax Law, LLP.
Sacramento, California, USA
Tax Law Firm
Professional Summary
I am a 30-year IRS Chief Counsel veteran with almost 10 years of private tax practice focusing on complex audits, Tax Court litigation, large dollar IRS collection problems and offshore compliance and voluntary disclosures. My objectives are to make my skills and expererience available to individuals, corporations, and tax practitioners to resolve IRS issues quickly and effectively.
Specialties:Tax Court Litigation, Large dollar IRS collection problems, and Offshore compliance and voluntary disclosures.
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Languages
- English
- Spanish
Industry Experience
- Legal
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Experience
Mopsick Tax Law, LLP.
Sacramento, California, USA 95864
Sacramento, California, USA 95864
Federal Tax Attorney
Tax Law Firm
2011 - Present
Steve handles a broad range of federal tax controversy issues before the Internal Revenue Service from collection issues and IRS summonses, to criminal investigations and Tax Court litigation. He is not licensed in California and does not practice California law.
Mopsick & Williams, LLP
Sacramento, California, USA 95864
Sacramento, California, USA 95864
Principal Partner
Tax Law Firm
2005 - 2011
Steve was the founder and principal partner in the firm. The practice Steve established at Mopsick Williams laid the foundation for Mopsick Tax Law, LLP where Steve's private practice is now starting its ninth year.
Weintraub Genshlea Chediak
Sacramento, California, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
Attorney
Law Firm
2003 - 2005
Full range of federal tax controversy including Tax Court litigation, resolution of IRS collection problems, audit, appeals and offshore compliance matters.
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Sacramento, California, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
Adjunct Professor of Law
1993 - 2003
Taught civil and criminal tax practice and procedure.
Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel
Sacramento, California, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
District Counsel
Government - Federal
1984 - 2002
Managed an IRS attorney field office responsible for the litigation or settlement of a multi-million dollar inventory of case before the United StatesTax Court. Served as legal counsel to IRS revenue agents, revenue officers, special agents, and their managers throughout thirty one Northern California posts of duty from the bay area to the Oregon and Nevada borders.
Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel
District of Columbia, USA
District of Columbia, USA
Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief Counsel
Government - Federal
1981 - 1984
Special assistant to the IRS Deputy Chief Counsel where he helped administer a nationwide office employing 5,000 IRS Counsel and Appeals personnel. In his last Washington position, he maintained close working relationships with the IRS Commissioner’s inner staff, officials and staff at the Treasury Department, the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Tax Committees of Congress.
Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel
District of Columbia, USA
District of Columbia, USA
Trial Attorney
Government - Federal
1975 - 1979
Steve was a front line Tax Court trial attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel's flag ship Washington, D.C. District Counsel office responsible for a full docket of cases involving a broad range of issues from fraud to complex business transactions.
Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel
District of Columbia, USA
District of Columbia, USA
Tax Law Specialist
Government - Federal
1970 - 1974
Steve wrote private letter rulings on complex corporate mergers, liquidations, and acquisitions in the domestic and foreign area. At the same time he pursued his Masters in Law (Taxation) at Georgetown. His Masters Paper was published in the Journal of Corporate Taxation and has been cited in the leading tax treatise on Subchapter C for many years.
Education
LLM, Taxation 1974
Georgetown University Law Center
JD1970
Boston College Law School
AB, Liberal Arts 1967
Rutgers University School of Law