The first call comes
in on Monday morning at 9:05. The owner of a Manhattan sports bar is being
charged with felony tax fraud. It’s extremely serious because a conviction
means he’ll lose his liquor license and his freedom. He’s lost confidence in
his current attorney and accountant, and he decides to call Selig & Associates.
David Selig picks up the telephone and asks the man several
probing questions. When the man seems sufficiently flummoxed Selig says, It
doesn’t sound like tax fraud to me. Why not? asks the man. Because tax law is
confusing and compliance is complicated. The calculations and extrapolations could
confound Pythagoras. At 11:30 he comes to the Office and retains
David Selig and Attorney Bradley Dorin.
Our offices are nondescript and
forgettable, says Dorin. The street is congested and the building is
unimpressive. In other words, it’s the perfect place for a tax practice. We keep a low profile because we solve tax
problems directly and through back channels, says Selig. All of our clients are in trouble with the IRS
and State - and none of them want publicity.
We’ve become the go-to Firm
because we keep our clients out of court and out of prison. We defend the
indefensible, and we keep our clients in business. Unfortunately, what makes us
so successful has simultaneously kept us in obscurity, says Selig We’re like
the Good Doctor in Sun Tzu’s tale of Three Healers, inasmuch as our name
doesn’t get out much.
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