An Apple Lands on Nosborne48's Head

[Albert Hidel]

Nosborne's navel gazing has been entertaining.  Being a lawyer with no tax training, what should he do but want to be a tax lawyer.  Sounds like a dentist wanting to do open heart surgery.  Tax is a world unto itself - guilty until proven innocent.

I was still laughing at his Dee Dee Ramone R'n'R HOF-style self-congratulation for his big accomplishment of becoming an Enrolled Agent.  ("I'd like to thank..myself.  I'd like to congratulate...myself.  I'd like to give a pat on the back to...myself.")

Apparently Nosborne never read Circular 230, which give attorneys the right to practice before the IRS.  

§10.3 Who may practice.
(a) Attorneys. Any attorney who is not currently under suspension or disbarment from practice before the Internal Revenue Service may practice before the Service upon filing with the Service a written declaration that he or she is currently qualified as an attorney and is authorized to represent the particular party on whose behalf he or she acts.

http://www.unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/2001/pcir230.pdf

Becoming an EA when you already have the right to practice seems tantamount to an admission you never bothered to read the rules before you jumped in.  Certainly reassuring to any taxpayer you represent.

Wasn't he also wowing the slack-jawed yokels at DD/DI with his fancy University of London DL LLM program?  What happened to that?  Did he finally figure out that only TV lawyers talk with a British accent?  Or did they finally figure out he was an idiot on two continents?

Now it dawns on him that earning a degree doesn't actually mean you know anything about your trade.  You would have thought three or four years of law school might have tipped him off.  Well, better late than never.  Give him another six or eight years and he might realize Bear and his wannabe clones are all full of shit too.