

Client in successfully resolving issues regarding unfiled payroll tax returns for multiple years.Client in a successful challenge to the IRS' attempt to retroactively apply a Treasury regulation.


Fifth Circuit and successfully argued that the IRS cannot invoke a six year statute of limitations. Fifth Circuit regarding the IRS attempt to impose a substantial penalty. Supreme Court regarding the IRS attempt to invoke a six year statute of limitations.

Member, Administrative Practice and Procedures Committee.Member, Civil and Criminal Penalties Committee.Member, Standards of Tax Practice Committee.Member, Court Procedure and Practice Committee.He has also published various articles regarding the IRS and tax procedures. Some of his topics include: Tax Shelter Defense, IRS Examinations, Appeals, Litigation and Collection Strategies, IRS Criminal Investigations, IRS Offshore Activities, IRS Focus on Tax Professionals, Employment Classification, IRS Penalties, and Litigation Partnership Tax Cases. Joel is a frequent speaker on procedural and substantive tax issues for legal and accounting professionals. Crouch as "Lawyer of the Year" in Tax Law for Dallas/Ft. Crouch has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America© in Tax Law for the years 2015-2022. He has also been named one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine for the years 2012-2021. Joel has been recognized as one of the best in his field by Texas Monthly and Law and Politics magazines by being named a Texas Super Lawyer from 2003 through 2022. Joel is a Partner in the firm and is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He often works with tax professionals and financial specialists to help develop solutions for their clients. Via Main menu > View > Global UI settings you can change directories or the language (when you have the language module and if the language is installed).Joel counsels and advises businesses, wealthy individuals and families about their most demanding tax planning, estate planning and IRS controversies. You can also go back to the default SCIA Engineer settings via Restore default. In this way you can share your configuration with other colleagues and you can set different configurations depending on the type of projects you are working on. Via Main menu > View > User configuration you can Save or Load the configuration of the user inferface (toolbars, hotkeys.). ) can be placed on any position of your screen by dragging it to the desired position.Ĭomponents like the Report preview, Input panel, Input table, Results table. You can also define hotkeys (single keys or combinations with Ctrl or Shift.) directly where you see them (in the SCIA Spotlight, Input panel, Main menu.) Simply click on the field at the top right, define the hotkey and press the Enter button to confirm.Īll components (Input panel Property panel, Input table, Results table. By holding Ctrl and clicking on the same workstation which is active as vertical toolbar, you can hide the vertical toolbar. If you want to delete a command from the toolbar, you can drag-and-drop it to the container at the end of the toolbar.Ĭhange the toolbar by clicking on the desired workstation for the horizontal toolbar or by clicking and holding Ctrl for the vertical toolbar. It's also possible to work with sublevels to further structure and organize the toolbar. In case that you want to add an icon that is already added to that specific toolbar (it could be somewhere in a sublevel as well), it will not be possible to add it once more to this toolbar and a warning 'Redundant' is shown. Via the SCIA Spotlight you can search for any command and drag-and-drop the command to the desired toolbar of the Process toolbar. There is also an empty toolbar called My Workstation which can be filled with your favorite commands. It's possible to show eight workstations at once. Via the hamburger icon you can activate which workstations should be visible in the process wheel and which should be hidden. The Process toolbar is located at the left bottom side of the graphical scene. In the new interface of SCIA Engineer you can customise the environment.
