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Chuck Rosen has over 40 years of experience in handling tax controversies. He joined the firm in 2000. Mr. Rosen started his distinguished 29-year career with the IRS in 1970 as a revenue officer. In 1973, he became the Chief of the Procedures & Insolvency Unit, Special Procedures Staff in Los Angeles. Thereafter, he served as a Bankruptcy Advisor in the Los Angeles and Laguna Niguel Special Procedures offices working on all chapters of bankruptcy; he also worked on other non-bankruptcy aspects of tax collection including, but not limited to, lien discharge and subordination applications, review of Trust Fund Recovery Penalties for responsible persons, receiverships, civil suits by and against the government, claims for refund and for wrongful levy, resolution of open seizures and levies. In 1995, during Orange County’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy proceedings, he served as Special Bankruptcy Counsel to the Orange County Grand Jury.
Mr. Rosen’s non-IRS work experience include private practice with the Law Firm of Garber, Marshack, Fell & Meyer, and being a bankruptcy attorney/analyst with the Office of U.S. Trustee in Los Angeles from 1979-1980. In 2006 Mr. Rosen was honored by the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum and the Orange County Bar Association with the Hon. Peter M. Elliott Award for his distinguished service to the bankruptcy community.
Mr. Rosen is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy and receivership tax issues and IRS tax collection matters. From 2003 through 2006, Mr. Rosen was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Western State University, College of Law teaching tax controversy courses and bankruptcy law.
Education
B.A. (History), California State University Northridge
J.D., Western State University
Bar Admissions
State Bar of California