A Trusted Tax Resolution Partner for Your Clients

When your client faces the IRS, their first call is often to you. But IRS controversy work requires deep specialization — and the wrong move can quickly escalate from a manageable case to a full-blown crisis. That’s where Watson on Taxes comes in.

For more than 30 years, our team has worked to deliver IRS defense strategies that protect clients, preserve reputations, and inspire long-term trust. Unlike generic call-center operations, we offer personalized, discreet, and expert care that reflects the professionalism you bring to your practice.

Our Approach

Collaborative & Client-First

Trusted Partnership

We advise, uncover solutions and help strengthen your practice by being the trusted tax resolution resource.

Empathetic Advocacy

We understand the stress IRS matters create and treat your clients with professionalism, care, and discretion.

Clarity at Every Step

From first contact to resolution, we provide transparency, timelines, and outcomes your clients can understand.

Scenarios Where We Strengthen Your Practice

Attorneys turn to Watson on Taxes when clients face issues outside their firm’s scope. By partnering with us, you expand your offering, protect your reputation, and give your clients access to trusted IRS tax resolution expertise.

IRS Audit & Defense Strategy

When a client is facing an audit, attorneys often prefer to focus on legal strategy rather than IRS procedure. That’s where we step in.

Represent clients through the full audit process so you don’t have to
Provide the financial documentation and tax expertise needed to protect your client
Minimize penalties and strengthen your position as their trusted advisor

Liens, Levies & Wage Garnishments

When clients come to you in crisis — paychecks garnished, assets frozen — we help you deliver fast relief while you focus on legal counsel.

Act quickly to stop IRS collection activity
Remove liens and levies, freeing up client assets
Release wage garnishments, protecting your client’s livelihood and your credibility as their trusted counsel

Back Taxes or Unfiled Taxes

Clients behind on filings can create complex exposure that falls outside most legal practices. We restore compliance and protect your client relationship.

Prepare and file delinquent returns with accuracy and discretion
Resolve unpaid back taxes before they escalate to enforcement
Reduce risk while positioning you as the attorney who brought in the right partner

Settlement Negotiation

When full payment isn't possible and the best path forward is reducing a client’s overall debt, we take on the heavy lift of negotiating directly with the IRS to maximize eligibility and outcomes.

Secure settlements for less than the total debt (when clients qualify)
Manage complex IRS requirements and prepare airtight submissions that meet agency standards
Position you as the attorney who delivered long-term financial relief your client can build on

Business Payroll & Employment Tax Issues

Employment tax disputes can threaten a client’s business and leadership credibility. We help you safeguard both.

Intervene in payroll tax disputes with specialized expertise
Negotiate directly with the IRS to minimize business risk and penalties
Provide compliance strategies so you can assure your clients the problem won’t repeat

Structured Resolutions & Compliance

Some clients won’t qualify for settlement, but they still need a way forward. We create resolution plans that are realistic and sustainable.

Negotiate manageable installment agreements
Monitor compliance to keep clients in good standing
Provide attorneys with assurance that their clients won’t slide back into crisis