Circular 230 Disclosure
This page explains, in plain English, what Treasury Department Circular No. 230 is, why it governs the people who represent you before the IRS, and how Sasquatch Tax Co. follows it. Read it alongside our Terms and Privacy Policy.
What is Circular 230?
Treasury Department Circular No. 230 is the federal rulebook for tax professionals who represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service. It is published at Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Subtitle A, Part 10, and is administered by the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility. In short, it sets the ethics and conduct standards that every authorized practitioner must meet when working a case before the IRS.
Who is authorized to practice before the IRS?
Not everyone who prepares a tax return may represent you in a collection case, audit or appeal. Circular 230 reserves the right to “practice before the IRS” for specific, credentialed professionals — principally Enrolled Agents (EAs), Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and licensed attorneys. Sasquatch Tax Co. is a full-bench tax resolution firm with EAs, CPAs and tax attorneys in-house, licensed in all 50 states. Each of those professionals is bound by Circular 230.
We do not list individual practitioner names, license numbers or credentials on this page — those details belong with the people who hold them. You can find them on our About page.
What Circular 230 forbids — including guarantees
Circular 230 limits what a practitioner may say to win your business. Under the solicitation and advertising rules (for example, §10.30), a practitioner may not make statements that are false, fraudulent, coercive, misleading or deceptive — and may not guarantee a specific outcome.
That is why you will not see us promise to wipe out a specific dollar amount or guarantee that the IRS will accept an Offer in Compromise. Anyone who makes those promises is, at best, ignoring the rules that bind real tax professionals.
Results vary — always
Everything on this site and in our Offer in Compromise materials is general. Outcomes vary by taxpayer and case facts — including your income, assets, allowable expenses, compliance history and the IRS’s own determinations. Nothing here predicts or guarantees a result in your matter.
Our website and field guide are education, not advice you may rely on
The 7 Secrets of the OIC field guide, this website, and any related posts, emails or downloads are general educational information. They are not a “covered opinion,” written tax advice, or legal advice directed at your specific facts, and they are not advice you may rely upon to avoid tax penalties. Reading our materials does not create a client relationship and is no substitute for advice tailored to your situation.
How a real engagement works
If we represent you, the scope of that representation is set by a signed retainer / engagement agreement between you and Sasquatch Tax Co. That written agreement — not this page, an email, or a phone call — defines what we are authorized to do, which tax periods and matters are covered, and the terms of our work. Until that agreement is signed, no attorney-client or practitioner-client relationship exists.
Questions about this disclosure?
If anything here is unclear, call us at 818-491-8269 before you act. We would rather answer a question than have you rely on general information that does not fit your case.
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