by Fresh Start Tax | Jan 25, 2019 | Tax Help
When you owe IRS back taxes you have different options to satisfy IRS, get them off your back. <><
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There are different ways to take care of negotiate your debt since not everyone is eligible for an offer in compromise here are the available programs.
The four ways to deal with IRS is through an:
1. installment or payment arrangement,
2. applying for a currently non-collectible or hardship program,
3. the filing of the offer in compromise or,
4. the expiration of the statute of limitations.
The IRS installment payment agreement.
The Internal Revenue Service accepts 6.5 million payment agreements every year. Some you can get online and others you have to call IRS and submit a current financial statement along with documentation.
IRS will look at the principal amount you owe, your monthly income and expenses, the life of the statute, and your ability to pay back IRS based on your current financial statement. When you call us we will review the different options you have and see which of the programs you qualify for to pay off your IRS tax bill.
Applying for the currently not collectible a hardship program.
About 40% of all cases in the IRS collection cases wind up in the collection Q as currently non-collectible or hardship mode because taxpayers are businesses simply cannot pay their bills at the current time.
Before your case gets put in this mode IRS will need a current financial statement to verify income, expenses and will also require a financial statement in which IRS will require bank statements, pay stubs, copies of all expenses to make sure you have completed an honest financial statement.
Depending on where the case is worked, the IRS will ask for 433A, or 433F.
RECORD REQUIREMENTS. IRS may ask for the last three months, the last six months or in some cases they may want an average of the last year before they place you in hardship. A quick note about IRS hardships or non-collectible cases, the penalties and interest still run and the IRS will review the case and anywhere between one and three years. If your case is placed in non-collectible or hardship, you must keep current on your tax filings and payments for the future years, if not IRS will default the hardship program and can kick the case out to be reworked and you can expect IRS to be much tougher than the first time around.
The filing of the offer in compromise.
IRS accepts about 32,000 offers in compromise each and every year. The average settlement is $9500.
Don’t let the $9500 deceive you because it’s just an average settlement.
Some cases settle for $1 million in some cases settle for $1000. IRS has very specific standards that they use for the acceptance of an offer in compromise and you should seek the help of a true tax professional in filing the offer.
You want to make sure you’re a true qualified candidate before you give your money to any tax firm. I was a former IRS agent and teaching instructor of the offer in compromise when formerly employed by my former boss.
The expiration of the statute of limitations.
IRS has generally a 10 year rule from the date of the assessment in which the statute of limitation expires.
There are three or four different events that can trigger the continuation of the statute of limitations. If your statute has run after the 10 year date your case, the tax debt is permanently dropped from IRS records and no further money is owed to the Internal Revenue Service.
You can find the statute of limitations by ordering an IRS tax transcript and finding out how close you are to the IRS dropping your case off the system.
If you have any questions call us today for a free initial tax consultation and we will walk you through the process.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Jan 25, 2019 | Tax Help
What to look for in the tax relief company.
Before I go into detail about what to look for which you will find on the bottom of this blog you must understand that many companies say that they are the best tax relief company. Please read the following:
There is no such thing as the best tax relief companies, that is a lie, that is a fraud and the reality is there is no way to discern which is the best tax relief company. It’s false advertising.
I should know because I am a former IRS agent, teaching instructor and have worked thousands of cases both for the Internal Revenue Service and outside in private practice for my company fresh start tax.
WHY can nobody claim to be the best?
There are simply too many and there is no way anybody can make this claim. basically what this means is they contacted and look through every company in the United States and to determine their list is the comprehensive list to determine who is the best. Really, does this even make sense.
Its’s a scam, it’s a sham it is a ripoff.
I took some time to Google some of the competition in the tax relief vertical and I found many “ads” for BEST TAX RELIEF COMPANIES.
Notice I use the word quotation mark “ads.”
What you need to know is that these are not independent research companies doing the RESEARCH for the so-called best tax relief companies but it is the top company on this ad, the rated the best tax relief companies placing their own ad to deceive taxpayers or you to think they’re the best.
They are doing their own self-promotion and lying to people as though they are the best.
They conveniently look at other companies, have their own staff people scrub through the others websites and find out what they themselves don’t like about the other websites and make you pretend this is independent research.
The truth is they should be shut down by the Atty. Gen.’s of that state.
This is a total sham and fraud.
Do not be fooled by these companies that claim to be the best tax relief companies, in fact, I would stay away from them because of fraud and deception.
What to look for in a tax relief company.
As a former IRS agent and teaching instructor, I would look for the following to make sure you can find a solid tax relief company.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A TAX RELIEF COMPANY
1. The length of time in business,
2. The number of valid complaints, notice I use the word “valid “, many complaints that are made are not, in fact, valid they are unhappy customers because the customer themselves failed to help the company relieve their tax problem.
3. Their Better Business Bureau rating,
4. How many years they’ve been in business.
5. The experienced personnel on staff, the best staff has former IRS agents who truly know all the policies that IRS uses and not people who are learning on the job that claim to have all this experience. As a former IRS agent, I laugh at some of the company saying this is how much experience. What most have are on-the-job learners which is another sham and fraud.
6. You must know the person working your case and talk to the person who is gonna work your case.
7. Do they promise results, if anyone promises results to stay away from that company?
8. When you call a company many times you are talking to a salesperson.
You will find larger companies have experienced salesperson trying to sell you their product without understanding your case and they make a commission when you make the call.
Many times they will pass you over to an experience closer who knows how to work the taxpayer or the customer fork over the money by making false promises just to get them the sign-up.
I cannot tell you how many times we have got calls after people have paid between five and $10,000 to fraud companies after people were hustled by the salesperson.
9. If you’re going to hire the company you need to speak to the person that’s working your case talk about the solution. Unless you talk to the person who’s going to be working your case there is already a lapse in communication, a lapse in promises made and as a general rule, you’ll never get the results the salesperson talk to you about.
10. Lastly makes sure the solution makes common sense.
You are the best judge of character.
If you have any questions regarding a tax case or tax problem contact us today for free initial tax consultation and speak to true tax professionals who know the system.
If you follow the above tips you can’t go wrong.
Whether you use our company or another you need to know the truth and don’t spend any money until you do your proper due diligence before the hiring is done.
Should you have any questions call us today and we will review with you any of your tax needs.
by Fresh Start Tax | Jan 25, 2019 | Tax Help
There is no such thing as the best tax relief companies, that is a lie, that is a fraud and the reality is there is no way to discern which is the best tax relief company. Its false advertising.
I should know because I am a former IRS agent, teaching instructor and have worked thousands of cases both for the Internal Revenue Service and outside in private practice for my company fresh start tax.
WHY can nobody claim to be the best?
There are simply too many and there is no way anybody can make this claim. basically what this means is they contacted and look through every company in the United States and to determine their list is the comprehensive list to determine who is the best. Really, does this even make sense.
Its’s a scam, it’s a sham it is a ripoff.
I took some time to Google some of the competition in the tax relief vertical and I found many “ads” for BEST TAX RELIEF COMPANIES.
Notice I use the word quotation mark “ads.”
What you need to know is that these are not independent research companies doing the RESEARCH for the so-called best tax relief companies but it is the top company on this ad, the rated the best tax relief companies placing their own ad to deceive taxpayers or you to think they’re the best.
They are doing their own self-promotion and lying to people as though they are the best.
They conveniently look at other companies, have their own staff people scrub through the others websites and find out what they themselves don’t like about the other websites and make you pretend this is independent research.
The truth is they should be shut down by the Atty. Gen.’s of that state.
This is a total sham and fraud.
Do not be fooled by these companies that claim to be the best tax relief companies, in fact, I would stay away from them because of fraud and deception.
What to look for in a tax relief company.
As a former IRS agent and teaching instructor, I would look for the following to make sure you can find a solid tax relief company.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A TAX RELIEF COMPANY
1. The length of time in business,
2. The number of valid complaints, notice I use the word “valid “, many complaints that are made are not, in fact, valid they are unhappy customers because the customer themselves failed to help the company relieve their tax problem.
3. Their Better Business Bureau rating,
4. How many years they’ve been in business.
5. The experienced personnel on staff, the best staff has former IRS agents who truly know all the policies that IRS uses and not people who are learning on the job that claim to have all this experience. As a former IRS agent, I laugh at some of the company saying this is how much experience. What most have are on-the-job learners which is another sham and fraud.
6. You must know the person working your case and talk to the person who is gonna work your case.
7. Do they promise results, if anyone promises results to stay away from that company?
8. When you call a company many times you are talking to a salesperson.
You will find larger companies have experienced salesperson trying to sell you their product without understanding your case and they make a commission when you make the call.
Many times they will pass you over to an experience closer who knows how to work the taxpayer or the customer fork over the money by making false promises just to get them the sign-up.
I cannot tell you how many times we have got calls after people have paid between five and $10,000 to fraud companies after people were hustled by the salesperson.
9. If you’re going to hire the company you need to speak to the person that’s working your case talk about the solution. Unless you talk to the person who’s going to be working your case there is already a lapse in communication, a lapse in promises made and as a general rule, you’ll never get the results the salesperson talk to you about.
10. Lastly makes sure the solution makes common sense.
You are the best judge of character.
If you have any questions regarding a tax case or tax problem contact us today for free initial tax consultation and speak to true tax professionals who know the system.
by Fresh Start Tax | Jan 25, 2019 | Tax Help
There is no such thing as the best tax relief companies, that is a lie, that is a fraud and the reality is there is no way to discern which is the best tax relief company.
I should know because I am a former IRS agent, teaching instructor and have worked thousands of cases both for the Internal Revenue Service and outside in private practice for my company fresh start tax. I know the truth. I have been in this vertical for 40 years. Don’t believe the lie.
WHY can nobody claim to be the best?
There are simply too many and there is no way anybody can make this claim.
I took some time to Google some of the competition in the tax relief vertical and I found many “ads” for BEST TAX RELIEF COMPANIES.
Notice I use the word quotation mark “ads.”
This is a total scam, sham and ripoff.
What you need to know is that these are not independent research companies doing the RESEARCH for the so-called best tax relief companies but it is the top company on this ad, the rated the best tax relief companies placing their own ad to deceive taxpayers or you to thinking they’re the best.
They are doing their own self-promotion and lying to people as though they are the best.
They conveniently look at other companies, have their own staff people scrub through the others websites and find out what they themselves don’t like about the other websites and make you pretend this is independent research.
The truth is they should be shut down by the Atty. Gen.’s of that state.
This is a total sham and fraud.
Do not be fooled by these companies that claim to be the best tax relief companies, in fact, I would stay away from them because of fraud and deception.
What to look for in a tax relief company.
As a former IRS agent and teaching instructor I would look for the following to make sure you can find a solid tax relief company.
1. The length of time in business,
2. The amount of valid complaints, notice I use the word “valid “, many complaints that are made are not in fact valid they are unhappy customers because the customer themselves failed to help the company relieve their tax problem.
3. Their Better Business Bureau rating,
4. How many years they’ve been in business.
5. The experienced personnel on staff, the best staff has former IRS agents who truly know all the policies that IRS uses and not people who are learning on the job that claim to have all this experience. As a former IRS agent I laugh at some of the company saying this is how much experience . What most have are on-the-job learners which is another sham and fraud.
6. You must know the person working your case and talk to the person who is gonna work your case.
7. Do they promise results, if anyone promises results stay away from that company.
8. When you call a company many times you are talking to a salesperson.
You will find larger companies have experienced salesperson trying to sell you their product without understanding your case and they make a commission when you make the call.
Many times they will pass you over to an experience closer who knows how to work the taxpayer or the customer fork over the money by making false promises just to get them the sign-up.
I cannot tell you how many times we have got calls after people have paid between five and $10,000 to fraud companies after people were hustled by salesperson.
9. If you’re going to hire the company you need to speak to the person that’s working your case talk about the solution. Unless you talk to the person who’s going to be working your case there is already a lapse in communication, a lapse in promises made and as a general rule you’ll never get the results the salesperson talk to you about.
10. Lastly makes sure the solution makes common sense.
You are the best judge of character.
If you have any questions regarding a tax case or tax problem contact us today for a free initial tax consultation and speak to true tax professionals who know the system.
by Fresh Start Tax | Jan 25, 2019 | Tax Help
The day finally comes that you know it was going to happen when you actually receive an IRS tax bill, letter or notice.
So what is the next step?
One of the first things you want to do is to examine the IRS tax bill, letter or notice to make sure the information being reported to you by the IRS is accurate and correct.
IRS all the time does not have the right records.
Approximately 15% of all letters are accurate for very reasons.
So the first step is to pull out your tax return and examine the IRS letter, notice or bill to make sure that what the IRS is saying is correct.
If it’s not correct you should send a certified letter, and always make sure it’s certified back to IRS identifying the problems with your records pointing out what the confusion is with the IRS letter you have just received.
If you have a tax practitioner, CPA it’s best to take the information to them to match up your records against the IRS tax bill notice or letter.
You always want to make sure you follow-up on the correspondence and if you do not hear back within a 30 day period it is absolutely necessary for you to call the IRS and stay on top of this.
If you cannot get through to IRS because of call log back jams continue to call, do not leave this alone because it’s not going to go away.
One of the frustrating elements of dealing with IRS as you may’s speak to two or three people just to resolve this plus you always have the IRS tax advocate if it gets out of hand.
What to do if the liability is correct and you owe back taxes.
When you IRS back taxes you have different options to satisfy IRS, get them off your back.
The four ways to deal with IRS is through an:
1. installment or payment arrangement,
2. applying for a currently non-collectible or hardship program,
3. the filing of the offer in compromise or,
4. the expiration of the statute of limitations.
The IRS installment payment agreement.
The Internal Revenue Service accepts 6.5 million payment agreements every year. Some you can get online and others you have to call IRS and submit a current financial statement along with documentation.
IRS will look at the principal amount you owe, your monthly income and expenses, the life of the statute, and your ability to pay back IRS based on your current financial statement. When you call us we will review the different options you have and see which of the programs you qualify for to pay off your IRS tax bill.
Applying for the currently not collectible a hardship program.
About 40% of all cases in the IRS collection cases wind up in the collection Q as currently non-collectible or hardship mode because taxpayers are businesses simply cannot pay their bills at the current time.
Before your case gets put in this mode IRS will need a current financial statement to verify income, expenses and will also require a financial statement in which IRS will require bank statements, pay stubs, copies of all expenses to make sure you have completed an honest financial statement.
Depending on where the case is worked, the IRS will ask for 433A, or 433F.
RECORD REQUIREMENTS. IRS may ask for the last three months, the last six months or in some cases they may want an average of the last year before they place you in hardship. A quick note about IRS hardships or non-collectible cases, the penalties and interest still run and the IRS will review the case and anywhere between one and three years.
If your case is placed in non-collectible or hardship, you must keep current on your tax filings and payments for the future years, if not IRS will default the hardship program and can kick the case out to be reworked and you can expect IRS to be much tougher than the first time around.
The filing of the offer in compromise.
IRS accepts about 32,000 offers in compromise each and every year. The average settlement is $9500.
Don’t let the $9500 deceive you because it’s just an average settlement.
Some cases settle for $1 million in some cases settle for $1000. IRS has very specific standards that they use for the acceptance of an offer in compromise and you should seek the help of a true tax professional in filing the offer.
You want to make sure you’re a true qualified candidate before you give your money to any tax firm. I was a former IRS agent and teaching instructor of the offer in compromise when formerly employed by my former boss.
The expiration of the statute of limitations.
IRS has generally a 10 year rule from the date of the assessment in which the statute of limitation expires.
There are three or four different events that can trigger the continuation of the statute of limitations. If your statute has run after the 10 year date your case, the tax debt is permanently dropped from IRS records and no further money is owed to the Internal Revenue Service.
You can find the statute of limitations by ordering an IRS tax transcript and finding out how close you are to the IRS dropping your case off the system.
If you have any questions call us today for a free initial tax consultation and we will walk you through the process.
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