WARNING: The IRS has a vested interest in you not hiring a tax professional. That’s because when you are unrepresented it is easier for them to intimidate you and more likely that their procedural mistakes, over-assessments and violations of your rights will be undetected and unchallenged. I am a tax lawyer and a CPA. Based on my 25 years [...]

If you can’t pay your tax debt in full, you will have to completely disclose your financial circumstances to the IRS. There is no way to avoid this disclosure requirement other than making full payment. A taxpayer’s financial information is provided on one or more of the following prescribed IRS forms: IRS Form Number Description [...]

In these bad economic times few of us have any extra cash laying around after we pay our monthly living expenses. The IRS doesn’t care about that, right? Wrong. If you can’t pay your debt and can prove it, the IRS will stop (at least temporarily) attempting to collect the debt from you. Non-Collectible Status [...]

If you owe the IRS money and you don’t pay it in full, there is a high likelihood it will file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien against you. An IRS lien destroys your credit. Once the lien is filed it is extremely difficult to get the IRS to release it. The best way to [...]

Once an assessment is made against you, your case gets sent to the IRS Collection Division. There are two types of collection agents taxpayers encounter in the IRS collection process: Automated Collection Distributors; and Local Revenue Agents. The Automated Collection System The Automated Collection System was developed in the early 1980′s to allow the IRS [...]

If you owe the IRS back taxes and/or haven’t filed your tax returns in several years, you are probably having a hard time sleeping at night. Either that or you’ve moved to Canada. Most people who are behind in their taxes truly want to get back in good standing with the IRS. Usually they don’t do [...]

The Dreaded IRS Notice Nobody likes getting an IRS notice that doesn’t include a refund check along with it. But the truth is if you live long enough you are bound to get an unhappy letter from the tax man at some point. Many of our clients come to us only after they have received [...]