In the last 25 years we have represented hundreds of clients who have been living in fear of the IRS for a very long time.
Most of these clients, after we got them back in good standing with the IRS and on an installment plan to pay their back taxes, tell us they feel like the weight of the world has been lifted from their shoulders.
As Shakespeare said it best, “present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
Living with fear, which creates stress, is not good for your health.
Dr. Esther Sternberg, director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program at NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), says this about the effects of chronic stress:
If you’re chronically stressed, the part of the brain that controls the stress response is going to be constantly pumping out a lot of stress hormones. The immune cells are being bathed in molecules which are essentially telling them to stop fighting. And so in situations of chronic stress your immune cells are less able to respond to an invader like a bacteria or a virus.
Dealing with your IRS problem, regardless of how much you may owe, relieves stress and improves your health.