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From: Barry J. Cohen Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 1:11 AM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Re: Phaidon 5-6 EY people have told us that they have experience with audits. &nbs=;l thought I gave you all the names before. I will get you a list of everyone we talk to=at every firm who has audit experience! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2017, at 7:04 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:jeevacation@g=ail.com> wrote: do they have names 77777,11111 On Tue, Se 19, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Barry J. Cohen =span dir="ltr"> <mailto: wrote: Phaidon may be $30MM. You are consumed with =udit experience! Some of our tax team (mostly EY) have it. Others less so. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2017, at 5:09 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:jeevacation@g=ail.com» wrote: I actually dont care whether or not he agrees . I would as= that you merely inquire as to how many 1040 fed audits 1040 l=rge case or 10 40 wealth squad audits hes actually managed or partcipated =n. how much loss do you think you can generate this year with a phaidon transa=tion.? On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Barry J. Cohen =span dir="ltr"> < <mailt vrote: He is agreeing with you on gift tax returns. =an't leave everything blank. EFTA_R1_01365188 EFTA02367348 From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, Se tember 19 2017 4:25 PM To: Barry J. Cohe ailti Subject: Re: 000's think about it, again, ask j=e how many 1040 audits he has done. . what size. h=w complex. when we file a grat, we cal=late the gift explicity at zero. . it =s the calculation of a gift minus the annuity. It is sim=le math. no more 2 minus ( 1&=43;1) does not equal NONE On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Barry J. Cohen <=a href="mai target "_blank" Fair enough. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Tuesday, Sep • To: Barry J. Cohen Subject: Re: 000's dumbl I I I, as i told you, =omputers dont read letters On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Barry J. Cohen <=a href="mailt arget="_blank"/ ^ ' " > wrote: Sorry I misunderstood on the 0005. Gift tax r=turns have to report a number somewhere, so maybe statute doesn't start.=nbsp; But if you filed an income tax return for an entity with no income or expenses, Joe V assumes the statute would start. 1= any event, we don't file returns that way. As I said, we would sa= "None" where appropriate. From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Tuesday, Sep . iiii . To: Barry J. Cohen . . Subject: Re: 000's i did not suggest you use the 000 method. = Im sorry but i dont have the time . do you =hink if you filed a gift tax return and left everything blank the st=tue would run? 2 EFTA_R1_01365189 EFTA02367349 href="mailto On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Barry J. Cohen <=a targete_blank" <=a» wrote: John Cook at EY said they would not sign a return th=t uses the 000s method. They said that there are too many footing pr=blems. Numbers won't tie to K-ls, W-2s, 1099s, etc. Also, if=you only use it on part of the return, the various numbers on the return would not match internally. He also pointed ou= that this method effectively truncates numbers; though I'm not sure wha= rounding rules you use. E.g., 101,499 become 101? What happen= to the other $499? Joe V likes the idea of putting in 0's instead of =lanks. He says he uses "none". He did not understand why t=is would affect the statute of limitations. Barry J. 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