IRS Collections (In-Person Seminar)

Professor Keith Fogg will present a training on IRS Collections, covering assessment, the federal tax lien, the collection notice process, levy, collection due process, currently not collectible status, installment agreements, offers in compromise, and innocent spouse relief. The program will run from 12:30 until 4:30, with a pizza and beverage session to follow for questions and answers. Professor Fogg directs the Federal Tax Clinic at Harvard Law School's Legal Services Center, visiting from Villanova Law School. He joined the Villanova faculty in 2007 after working for over 30 years with the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS. Professor Fogg received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, his J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law and his M.L.T. in tax from the College of William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law. He developed a course for the Georgetown LLM program, Federal Taxation of Bankruptcy and Workouts, which he taught there for 15 years as an adjunct. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at William and Mary and University of Richmond law schools and as a visiting professor at University of Arizona. He is a national authority on tax procedure especially in the area of collection and bankruptcy law as it relates to tax. He co-authors a blog with Professor Les Book, procedurallytaxing.com, which focuses on current tax procedure issues. Fogg serves as the editor of the ABA Tax Section publication “Effectively Representing Your Client before the IRS.” He authors the collection chapters in “IRS Practice and Procedure” created by Michael Saltzman and currently edited by Les Book. He was chosen as the IRS Chief Counsel Robert H. Jackson National Attorney of the Year in 2007 and the ABA Tax Section Janet R. Spragens Pro Bono Award winner in 2015. He is a past chair of the ABA Tax Section Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee and a current member of the ABA Tax Section governing council.