Meet Michael
He spent part of his career inside the IRS. He spent the rest of it on your side of the desk.
Michael Salomon is a Certified Public Accountant in Tucson. Before he built a practice representing taxpayers, he worked as an IRS agent — which is why his first question is usually not “what do the forms say?” but “what is the IRS actually looking at here?”
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Why the IRS years still matter
Working as an IRS agent teaches you things that no course covers: which documents an examiner will ask for, how a case file is built, what makes a response persuasive, and how much of the outcome is decided by what happens in the first few weeks.
Michael uses that knowledge in ordinary ways. He tells clients when a notice is routine and when it is not. He prepares the record before it is requested. And when a case needs to be argued, he argues it in the terms the person reading it uses.
The CPA side of the work
A CPA license is a state license, and it requires years of accounting education, a four-part national examination, and continuing education every year after that. It also carries a code of professional conduct and the right to represent clients directly before the IRS. Michael has practiced under that license for more than 25 years and has prepared well over 10,000 returns for individuals and small businesses across nearly every situation an ordinary tax year can produce.
That range matters more than the number. Restaurants, trucking companies, law firms, medical and dental practices, chiropractors, dry cleaners, real estate developers and builders, taxi companies, produce distributors — he has done the books and the returns for small businesses of almost every kind, and he has represented hundreds of clients through IRS matters.
Why he chose to represent taxpayers
Most people meet the tax system at its least forgiving moment — a letter, a deadline, a return that no longer fits the software they used last year. Michael's view is that people make good decisions when someone explains the options and the risks honestly, and poor decisions when they are guessing. So that is what he does: lay out what could happen, what it would cost, and what he would do.
He works with individuals, families, and small-business owners rather than large corporations, and he stays reachable through the year rather than only in the spring. Life events — a birth, a new business, a home, an inheritance, a retirement date — change a tax picture more than tax law usually does, and those conversations do not wait for April.
A Tucson practice
The office is on East Broadway Boulevard in Tucson. Many clients come in and sit down; others work with Michael entirely remotely, including clients living overseas, using secure methods for transmitting private information. Both get the same attention, and either way you are working with the CPA himself, not a rotating staff.
Start with a conversation, not a document request.
Tell Michael what changed and he will tell you what he would look at first.