Francis A. Andreacchi

Former IRS Revenue Agent/Appeal Agent

Is employed with Fresh Start Tax LLC.

He is a Former IRS Revenue Agent, Appeals Officer, Federal Tax Mediator, Gallatin Award form the U.S. Department of the Treasury
With 35 years of employment with the Internal Revenue Service, Francis A. Andreacchi has a vast amount of knowledge and experience. In 1974, he started as an Office Auditor in the Office Audit Division where he examined individual tax returns.
In 1977, he was promoted to Revenue Agent in the Field Audit Division. As a Revenue Agent, he examined high income individuals, large corporations, partnerships and trusts. In the Tax Shelter Audit Program, he specialized in the examination of complex financial transactions.
In 1982, Francis was promoted to Appeals Officer in the Appeals Division where he spent the last 35 years of his career with the IRS. As an Appeals Officer, he conducted conferences to settle cases in which taxpayers have appealed Internal Revenue Service determinations on their tax case or filed a petition in U.S. Tax Court. Francis had the authority to recommend the final disposition of the case from the government’s perspective and to prepare the final settlement.
As an Appeals Officer, he was assigned various income tax cases involving individuals, trusts, partnerships and corporations from the Examination Division. These cases involved omitted income, disallowed expenses and various penalties as substantial understatement of tax, fraud, failure to file and failure to pay. In conjunction with these cases, he had to consider innocent spouse issues raised by one of the spouses.
As an Appeals Officer, he was also assigned various collection cases from the Collection Division. Such cases included offer in compromise, installment agreements and transferor-transferee issues.
Another type of collection case assigned was the application of the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty on individuals in which the corporation did not pay the payroll taxes. In these cases, Francis was required to make a determination whether the taxpayer was the responsible person who willfully failed to pay the employment taxes and the relative litigating hazards of the taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service.
His span of case assignment from the Collection Division included Collection Due Process for lien and levy actions. In these cases, he had to consider whether these enforcement actions were proper within the facts and circumstances of the case. Francis had to consider all other issues raised by the taxpayer on his unpaid tax liability, such as whether the liability was correct and whether any penalties should be abatement. Francis also had to consider various collection alternatives raised by the taxpayer such as installment agreements, offers in compromise and currently not collectible status.
Francis is also an IRS trained mediator. As an IRS mediator, his responsibility was to attempt to bring the Internal Revenue Service and the taxpayer to an agreement on their dispute through a conference. He was one of the first mediators to successfully mediate an offer in compromise between the IRS and the taxpayer.
Francis received many Performance Awards for his hard work in successfully resolving cases in the Appeals Division. Upon his retirement from the IRS, the United States Department of the Treasury awarded Francis the Albert Gallatin Award for his contribution to the public service.
As an Enrolled Agent, Francis is licensed by the federal government to represent taxpayers before the IRS. His 60 years as an Appeals Officer with the IRS provides him with the unique knowledge and experience to effectively represent the taxpayer before the IRS.