by Fresh Start Tax | Nov 10, 2015 | Tax Help
Independent Contractor vs. Employee
For federal employment tax purposes, the usual common law rules are applicable to determine if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee.
Under the common law, you must examine the relationship between the worker and the business.
You should consider all evidence of the degree of control and independence in this relationship.
The facts that provide this evidence fall into three categories
1.Behavioral Control,
2.Financial Control and,
3. the Relationship of the Parties.
Behavioral Control covers facts that show if the business has a right to direct and control what work is accomplished and how the work is done, through instructions, training or other means.
Financial Control covers facts that show if the business has a right to direct or control the financial and business aspects of the worker’s job.
This includes:
• The extent to which the worker has unreimbursed business expenses
• The extent of the worker’s investment in the facilities or tools used in performing services
• The extent to which the worker makes his or her services available to the relevant market
• How the business pays the worker, and
• The extent to which the worker can realize a profit or incur a loss
Relationship of the Parties covers facts that show the type of relationship the parties had.
This includes:
• Written contracts describing the relationship the parties intended to create
• Whether the business provides the worker with employee-type benefits, such as insurance, a pension plan, vacation pay, or sick pay
• The permanency of the relationship, and
• The extent to which services performed by the worker are a key aspect of the regular business of the company
For more information, refer to Publication 15-A (PDF), Employer’s Supplemental Tax Guide, or Publication 1779 (PDF), Independent Contractor or Employee.
If you want the IRS to determine if a specific individual is an independent contractor or an employee, file Form SS-8 (PDF), Determination of Worker Status for Purposes of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax Withholding.
For information on eligibility for a voluntary program to reclassify your workers as employees with partial relief from federal employment taxes, visit Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (VCSP) on IRS.gov.
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IRS Tax Levy, IRS Wage Garnishment Levy Releases
Before IRS will release a tax levy, a wage garnishment or bank seizure, Internal Revenue Service will need a current documented financial statement.
Taxpayers have received these notices of levy because they have failed to communicate with Internal Revenue Service after four billings have been sent to the last known address. in many cases taxpayers have moved and never receive the notices.
If your case is in the automatic collection system you will be filling out and documenting form 433F which you can find directly on our website. It is the only form the Internal Revenue Service will use.
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IRS Financial Statement – 433F
The filling out of your financial statement is critical into the settlement of your case.
With that current financial statement you will need to provide IRS the last three months of your bank statements, copies of your pay stubs and your monthly expenses.
IRS does a thorough review of your financial statement therefore you want to make sure you are both honest and accurate.IRS has many sources available on their computer system to check the accuracy of your financial statement in some instances can pull credit reports.
As a general rule IRS will not release your levy until all your tax returns are filed. We can prepare all your back tax returns with little or no records.
IRS Case Closings
Internal Revenue Service usually closes your case off the enforcement two general ways: Based on your current financial statement, IRS will put you in a currently uncollectible file or put you in a payment agreement.
Over 40% of collection cases wind up in a current tax hardship and 6.5 million other taxpayers are put into monthly installment payment plans.
It is important you file all back tax returns if not the IRS can file for you under 6020 B of the Internal Revenue Code and they will make sure you get no deductions.
IRS will not give any non-filer any deductions or exemptions that they prepare under 6020B.
IRS may fail to release an IRS tax levy wage garnishment or bank levy because taxpayers have failed to file back tax returns.
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Before a taxpayer or client thinks about the filing of an offer in compromise they should check out the IRS offer in compromise pre-qualifier tool first.
You can walk to the pre-qualifier tool on our site or call us today to learn more about it.
We will not file an offer in compromise or accept any fee for any client unless we know they are qualified for the program.
So if we send in your offer in compromise, you probably do have a pretty good chance of getting it accepted.
It is important to know you will that all back tax returns will have to be filed, up-to-date and current on the IRS computer system before the Internal Revenue Service will accept an offer in compromise.
IRS Tax Statistics for the OIC
Last year there were 78,000 offers in compromise were filed with the Internal Revenue Service, 38% of those were accepted for an average of $6500 per case.
Keep in mind this is a national average and varies from case to case is completely dependent on your current financial statement.
About 20% of all offers in compromise go to the Appellate Division for settlement. Most offers that are accepted by the Internal Revenue Service are done through true tax professional firms.
You should know that not everyone is an offer in compromise candidate to settle their tax debt.
Making sure you are eligible for the OIC.
Before IRS can consider your offer, you must be current with all filing and payment requirements.
You are not eligible if you are in an open bankruptcy proceeding.
Submitting your offer or OIC to the Internal Revenue Service.
You’ll find step-by-step instructions and all the forms for submitting an offer in the Offer in Compromise Booklet, Form 656-B (PDF).
Your completed offer package must and will include:
• Form 433-A (OIC) (individuals) or 433-B (OIC) (businesses) and all required documentation as specified on the forms;
• Form 656(s) – individual and business tax debt (Corporation/ LLC/ Partnership) must be submitted on separate Form 656;
• $186 application fee (non-refundable); and
• Initial payment (non-refundable) for each Form 656.
Selecting a payment option for the offer in compromise program through the IRS:
Your initial payment will vary based on your offer and the payment option you choose:
1• IRS Lump Sum Cash:
Submit an initial payment of 20 percent of the total offer amount with your application. Wait for written acceptance, then pay the remaining balance of the offer in five or fewer payments.
2• IRS Periodic Payment:
Submit your initial payment with your application. Continue to pay the remaining balance in monthly installments while the IRS considers your offer.
If accepted, you must continue to pay monthly until it is paid in full.
While your offer in compromise is being evaluated by the IRS you should know;
• Your non-refundable payments and fees will be applied to the tax liability (you may designate payments to a specific tax year and tax debt);
• A Notice of Federal Tax Lien may be filed;
• Other collection activities are suspended;
• The legal assessment and collection period is extended;
• Make all required payments associated with your offer;
• You are not required to make payments on an existing installment agreement; and
• Your offer is automatically accepted if the IRS does not make a determination within two years of the IRS receipt date.
As a side note, taxpayers should be aware that all tax returns must be filed before they can have an approved offer in compromise.
If you submitted an offer in compromise and IRS finds your tax returns are not file they will return the offer to you.
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IRS Tax Levies: Bank Levies & Wage Garnishments
As a general rule, if taxpayers do not respond to final notices that are sent by IRS, the Internal Revenue Service is required to send out a tax levy.
It is important to respond to all IRS requests by mail because IRS’s computer will do so.
As a general rule, no human hand touches IRS mail, it is all set out systemically by the IRS Cade 2 computer. It sends out close to 150 million pieces of mail a year.
IRS generally sends out five billing notices and then the important 1058 that lets you know an IRS tax levy is to follow.
IRS has the right to shorten the period of time depending on your tax situation and history.If you had compliance issues in the past expect IRS to go right to a final notice.
IRS Billing Notices
The Internal Revenue Service sends out notices out notices on five-week billing cycles. Many times in the last notice IRS sends out a certified or registered mail.
To find out where you are in the system, look on the top right corner, it’ll let you know a code number and experienced tax professional can let you know where you are in the IRS billing system.
As a general rule, IRS sends out close to 1.9 million tax levies/garnishments each year.
There is a difference be between an IRS federal tax levy in the federal tax lien. A federal tax levy is a seizure a federal tax lien is a document to get placed at your courthouse.
A federal tax lien can stay on public court records for 10 years. they are generally released by full payment, statute expiration or accepted offer in compromise.
The IRS filed 700,000 federal tax liens last year. If at all possible you want to stop the filing of the federal tax lien because it will certainly room and destroy your credit.
To get your IRS tax levy or wage garnishment released it will be necessary for you to give IRS a current documented financial statement along with making sure all your tax returns are filed in on IRS’s computer system.
It will be necessary for you to fully complete an IRS form 433F (an IRS financial statement) that you can find on our website along with supplying IRS with bank statements, pay stubs and copy of all monthly expenses.
The Internal Revenue Service does a thorough review of your current financial statement before closing your case. The internal revenue service will compare your expenses against that of the national, geographical, and localized standards that IRS has on their website. you can also find the national standards on our homepage, click on the tabs and says IRS forms, and go to the national standards.
When you call our office we were thoroughly review your case, give you a free tax assessment and let you know the necessary steps to completely remove your IRS problem including releasing an IRS tax levy, or wage levy garnishment and settling your case all at the same time.
IRS will generally close your case by putting it into a tax hardship or asking for a monthly payment plan.
40% of all cases are put in the tax hardship and 6.5 million cases are put into monthly installment agreements.
Please keep in mind that your current financial statement will dictate how IRS will close case.
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Last year IRS accepted 38,000 offers in compromise for average settlement of $6500 per case. Please keep in mind that is only an average.
Unfiled Tax Returns
Please keep in mind if you have unfiled or back to tax returns, the IRS has the option of not releasing a federal tax levy because you are not in full compliance with tax laws. IRS also has the right to prepare your tax return under 6020 B of the Internal Revenue Code.
FST can prepare any and all back tax returns with little or no records. we are experts in tax reconstruction because of methods learned at the Internal Revenue Service.
If you do not prepare your back tax returns, the IRS can prepare them and make sure you pay the most amount allowed by law under code section 6020B.
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Last year the Internal Revenue Service granted close to 6.5 million IRS payment plans, installment agreements and streamlined payment plans to taxpayers.
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We can also talk you about the possible tax solution of settling your tax debt through the offer in compromise program, that is settling your tax debt for pennies on the dollar.
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When you call our office you will speak directly to a former IRS agent who both worked and taught the program for IRS. The writer of this blog is a former IRS agent and teaching instructor.
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You can follow the pre-qualifier tool on our website and you can find out firsthand if you are a qualified candidate for the program.
You should never give your money to a tax firm unless you have some assurance your offer has a chance of acceptance.
Removals and Stopping an IRS Tax Levies, IRS Bank Levy, IRS Wage Garnishments Levies
If you wish to remove an IRS tax levy will need to give IRS a current financial statement on form 433F.
IRS will require that financial statement to be completely documented and verified.
Within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement as a general rule we can get your bank or wage levy garnishment released.
We will let you know about the IRS national standard program so you understand the process of how IRS settles tax debt.
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