Martha Miller, Attorney at Law is admitted to the Bars of New York, Connecticut and the US Tax Court. She is a 1967 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago Illinois.

Martha has been in the tax field since 1972, at first working for H & R Block in New York, preparing taxes, teaching tax preparers, representing clients at audits and managing an office for the company. Her experience on the front lines of tax work allowed her to learn the field from the ground up.

Her next job in tax was at NBC News in New York, where she was the tax and finance reporter on the local news for two years.

In 1993, after noticing that her biggest clients never walked into her expensive New York office, she moved from New York City to northern Connecticut because she wanted to garden. Her clients followed.

Martha now restricts her practice to personal and business income tax. She writes about 400 tax returns a year, though the returns now are more difficult than the ones she wrote when she started out. In her career, she has prepared more than twenty thousand tax returns.

About half of her practice is the preparation and negotiation of various payment plans and compromises with the IRS. She also defends from IRS levies and other collection measures.

Martha is also the author of What Every Woman Needs to Know about the Law (Doubleday 1980) and numerous articles on legal matters.

Blog Entries by Martha Miller

I Used To Be A Republican

3 Comments | Posted October 27, 2008 | 03:16 PM (EST)


I used to be a Republican. I was a Young Republican. I worked in both Reagan campaigns, and I contributed to the Republican National Committee. It was the party of Lincoln, and I saw it as a leader of social justice.

Eisenhower was my first president. In 1952, my...

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Dear Joe, You Can Afford $1500

7 Comments | Posted October 16, 2008 | 10:21 AM (EST)


It's the Tax Lawyer again. Does nobody in the media do Math?

Under the Obama Plan, Joe the Plumber will pay an additional 3% tax or $1500 in tax for $50,000 in net earnings or an additional $3000 in tax for $100,000 in earnings.

Joe, if you are...

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Journal: The Audacity Of A Nationwide "Chicago Machine"

1 Comments | Posted October 14, 2008 | 01:17 PM (EST)


Martha Miller is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

Laura and I decided to canvas in Pennsylvania.

Laura has an airy charm perfected while she was an unwilling debutante in Atlanta. She is 68 and has had...

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McCain's Tax Returns Hide Gambling

437 Comments | Posted October 3, 2008 | 05:17 PM (EST)


Senator John McCain is a gambler. If I'd known that right away I would have immediately seen what was wrong with his tax returns.

I am a tax attorney, so a tax return means more to me than it would to most. I reviewed McCain's tax returns as a...

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