Innocent and Injured Spouse Relief
In our professional practice, we will often run into situations where a client hires us to resolve a tax debt they did not know existed. It’s not until they discover their bank accounts have been levied and/or their wages are being garnished that the debt is fully revealed tot hem. Often, the spouse will hire us after such enforcement has occurred and they need to...
How to Handle a Bank Levy
One of the scariest realities of a tax debt case is the threat of a levy against your bank accounts. Such an action against you and your assets could happen at any time. This particular part of any case can keep anyone up at night wondering when such an event might occur. For any client that I represent, I am often counseling them on this aspect of their case and working...
Tax Penalties and How to Remove Them
One of the most overwhelming and frustrating aspects of any tax debt is the enormous amount that is added to your principal tax debt in penalties. These can be added for various reasons and at various times during the life of your case As a policy, the IRS enforces penalties to encourage “voluntary compliance” by supporting the standards of behavior required by...
IRS Threats of Lawsuits and Criminal Prosecution – Likely a Scam
Over many years of representing clients with tax liabilities and tax liens, including the Internal Revenue Service and all 50 states, we have observed a noticeable increase in the amount of deceptive telephone calls from individuals impersonating IRS agents. If you have an IRS or State tax lien, you are even more likely to be a victim. These IRS-impersonating-scam-artists...
Accepted! The Offer in Compromise Program
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced another expansion of its“Fresh Start Initiative” by offering more flexible terms to its Offer inCompromise (OIC) program. These changes will enable financially distressed taxpayers toclear up their tax problems more quickly than in the past based on the new qualifying critera.
The announcement focused on the...