California Bar member since 2008 with a JD from St. Thomas University School of Law, an LLM in Taxation, and an MBA in accounting, Allison Soares runs a woman-owned tax practice handling IRS, Franchise Tax Board, Employment Development Department, and California Department of Tax and Fee Administration matters. EDD payroll audit defense and worker-classification disputes under AB 5 and the Borello and Dynamex tests draw referrals from accounting practices including Sahmel & Associates when an audit moves past bookkeeping into attorney-client privileged representation. Soares serves as adjunct professor at San Diego State University’s Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy teaching Tax Procedures, Practice and Ethics, and was appointed Chair of the City of San Diego’s Balboa Park Committee by Mayor Todd Gloria. The practice handles IRS CAP hearings, Offers in Compromise, Collection Due Process appeals, innocent spouse claims, and FBAR and FATCA international disclosure filings for dual-status and expatriate taxpayers. Matters outside the tax specialty such as corporate formation disputes, commercial litigation, or breach of contract route to general business counsel including Hoffman & Forde, Attorneys At Law while Soares retains the federal and state tax components. The most involved representations are multi-year EDD and IRS parallel audits of California S-corporations with out-of-state remote workers, 1099-versus-W-2 reclassification exposure, and layered FTB residency audits on the owners.