One of the questions taxpayers with delinquent tax debts ask us most frequently is “can the IRS take my house?” The bad news is that the IRS can indeed take your house. The good news is that it’s not easy for the government to take your house and, therefore, it does so only as a last resort. The IRS will [...]

During an IRS audit the burden is placed on the taxpayer to prove that he made a deductible tax expenditure. Many taxpayers have been audited and because they were unable to provide receipts and records proving their deductions had taxes, penalties and interest assessed against them. But what happens if after the audit is over and the IRS has made its [...]

A levy is a legal seizure of your property to satisfy a tax debt. Levies are different from liens. A lien is a claim used as security for the tax debt, while a levy actually takes the property to satisfy the tax debt. If you do not pay your taxes (or make arrangements to settle [...]