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[ 2026 Training Event #9 ]

What are the Chances Your OIC Will Be Accepted

Wednesday, August 5th | 2:00-3:00pm Eastern

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Course Description

Most rejected offers don’t die over a math error on the 433-A.

They die over things the practitioner never saw coming.

Like the asset your client sold two years before you ever filed. That value can still land back in the reasonable collection potential.

Or the vehicle the IRS decided not to seize. Deciding not to levy an asset doesn’t pull it out of RCP.

Or IRM 5.8.7.7.2, which lets the IRS reject an offer on public policy grounds even when the amount offered is more than they could collect by any other means. Read that one again. More than they could ever collect. Still rejected.

If you’ve had an offer come back and you couldn’t explain to your client why, this is the seminar.

We go through how the IRS actually scores an offer, in the order they score it:

  • The four components of collectibility, and the two most practitioners undercount
  • What kicks a case out of COIC and over to a field Offer Specialist, and why that should change how you package it
  • Assets transferred or disposed before submission, and when the value follows the client
  • The non-financial factors: age, health, dependents, education, work history, employment status
  • When a partial pay installment agreement collects more than your offer, and what to do about the gap before a rejection letter shows up
  • Live polling questions throughout, so you can see where you stack up against the room
  • A multiple-OIC scenarios worksheet you can run on your next case Monday morning

Participants will earn: 1.0 CPE/CE credit

Field of Study: Taxation

Price: FREE

Course presented by: Larry Lawler, CPA, EA, CTRS

Larry is the Founder & National Director of ASTPS and the architect of the Accelerator Program. He has worked and consulted on literally thousands of IRS representation cases and is a frequent public speaker, a writer on professional topics, and a regular trainer of tax professionals nationwide. He has been a New York CPA since 1973. He is also a fellow of the National Tax Practice Institute. Larry is the managing partner of Lawler & Witkowski, CPAs, PC, the firm he established in 1973.

Additional Information:

Prerequisites: None

Who Should Attend: Any tax professional that wants to better understand how to represent troubled taxpayers.

Advance preparation: None

Program level: Intermediate – Attendees should possess the knowledge common to CPAs, EAs, and Attorneys.

Delivery Method: Group Live

For more information regarding program concerns, or cancellation
policies, please contact our offices at (716) 630-1650 or send an email to info@astps.org.

The American Society of Tax Problem Solvers is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.

The American Society of Tax Problem Solvers (ASTPS) is an approved continuing education provider through the IRS.