In: Accounting
Yes, it is beneficial to the tax payers due to following advantages
* If CAP is working effectively, a taxpayer will not have many years open in audit and Appeals and thus will be able to estimate the effect of tax planning with significant precision.
* CAP increases a taxpayer’s certainty of its financial position by eliminating or diminishing a need for financial statement tax reserves.
* CAP may be an effective means by which to produce the affirmative evidence that supports recognition of the tax benefit.
To show that it is a Valuable program IRS uses “real-time audits” of taxpayers—that is, the review and resolution of tax issues through open, cooperative, and transparent interactions between the IRS and taxpayers before the filing of a return.
It deals about various topics relating to
*Negotiations in Merger and Acquisition Activity
*Acceleration of Audits of Pre-CAP Years
*Resolution of Legal Issues
Taxpayer cooperation and collaboration in identifying and resolving issues should consume less audit time than does the customary post-filing audit in which the IRS shoulders more of the burden in formulating issues.
Even there are some of the disadvantages like
*Risk of Increased Tax Liability
*Insufficient Time to Analyze Tax Positions
*Accounting Method Changes
it gives more benefit to taxpayers.