Small-business tips: IRS liaison meeting covers tipping, auditing and litigation.

The IRS has a major effort under way to educate new small businesses about tax laws. The program focuses on four areas:

* Avoidance of tax schemes, including not withholding income taxes from wages paid to employees;

* Increasing e-filing and decreasing the number of re-submissions-e-filing the same form more than once because of unfamiliarity with the proper process or accidentally hitting the "send' button;

* Taxpayer burden reduction; and

* Voluntary agreements.

This push by the IRS was just one of the topics discussed at the CaICPA Committee on Taxation's annual IRS liaison meeting in Los Angeles in November. The meeting included 12 IRS representatives, who reviewed policies and responded to questions.

Because Congress has …