About

Meet The Founder

Kenneth R. Cournoyer, CPA

Kenneth Cournoyer is the founder of Credible Tax Solutions, LLC.  Kenneth had a distinguished, 35-year career with the Internal Revenue Service as a Revenue Agent, in which he received several performance awards, manager awards and a special act award.  In 1991 he became a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Rhode Island. 

During his tenure with the IRS, he received training in the following specialty areas:

·         All phases of IRS Revenue Agent examination technics for individuals, corporations, partnerships and trusts.

·         Specialized Enforcement Program (SEP) to investigate unreported income generated from illegal sources.

·         Criminal Tax Trial Summary Expert Witness.

·         Fiduciary Income Tax.

·         Foreign Trusts and other Offshore Entities.

·         Abusive Tax schemes.

·         Promoters of abusive tax schemes.

 

Some of his career highlights include:

·         Examination of numerous individual, corporate, partnership and trust tax returns.

·         Referral of multiple fraud cases to the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.

·         Working with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice as a Cooperating Agent and a Trial Summary Expert Witness.

·         Working with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division on the execution of multiple search warrants.

·         Testifying as an expert witness in Tax Court.

·         Testifying in Federal Court multiple times as an expert witness in criminal tax evasion cases, tax return preparer injunction cases, and in a criminal threat and assault case.

·         Testifying as an expert witness for a Federal Grand Jury in a criminal tax evasion case.

·         Working with the U.S.  Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice on multiple tax evasion guilty plea deals.

·         Conducting multiple civil injunction investigations on abusive tax scheme promoters and tax return preparers.

·         Examination of multiple self-directed IRAs, one of which resulted in litigation within Tax Court providing a favorable decision for the Federal Government.

·         Conducting Offshore Compliance Initiative examinations that resulted in multiple FBAR and international information return penalty assessments.

·         Working with local police and state taxation authorities on multiple IRS non-filer cases.

·         Serving as a classroom instructor for IRS Agent training.

·         Serving as an instructor for tax return preparers.

·         Initiating and supervising multiple tax examination projects.

·         Drafting of some IRS audit technique guides.

 

Notable professional licenses:

·         Certified Public Accountant – #2331 Issued 1991 – Rhode Island (Active)

·         Series 65 – Uniform Investment Advisor – Issued 1999 (Inactive)

·         Insurance Producer License – Issued 1999 (Inactive)

·         Series 7 – General Securities Representative Issued 2000 (Inactive)

·         Certified Financial Planner # 101325 Issued 2005 – (Inactive)

 

Kenneth created Credible Tax Solutions, LLC shortly after he retired from the Internal Revenue Service in an effort to provide honest and reliable tax resolution assistance virtually throughout the United States.  After witnessing too many situations where taxpayers paid exuberant fees to highly advertised, large, nation tax resolution firms and gained little to nothing in return.  Credible Tax Solutions is dedicated to providing the best possible tax resolution services for a reasonable price.