Fresh Start Tax 1-866-700-1040 A National Tax Practice “A” Rated by the Better Business Bureau
Fresh Start Tax LLC is a professional tax firm specializing in all matters before the IRS. We have over 140 years of direct IRS work experience and 60 years of working for the IRS.
We specialize in IRS tax problems, offering full representation. We are licensed and certified before the IRS. On staff are Board Certified Tax Attorneys, CPAs and former Agents and Managers with the IRS.
Fresh Start Tax is one of the premier tax resolution firms in the country. We deal with all types of civil cases including individuals, businesses, non-profits, partnerships and corporations. We have staff that specialize in every facet of IRS representation. We know all the IRS tax strategies because of our extensive IRS working backgrounds. Some of our many specialties include the following:
Immediate Tax Representation
Offers in Compromise/Settlements
Immediate Release of Bank Garnishments or Wage Levies
IRS Notices/Bill of Intent to Levy or Final Notices
Fresh Start Tax 1-866-700-1040 Rated “A” by the Better Business Bureau A Professional Tax Firm
If you are experiencing any type of IRS problem, call us today.
We can stop all IRS action because of our 140 years of combined tax experience. We are comprised of Board Certified Tax Attorneys, Lawyers, CPAs, and former IRS Agents and Managers.
We have 60 years of direct work experience with the IRS.
How we handle your case:
We obtain all the information from our clients and get an accurate description of the problem.
We immediately send a power of attorney to the IRS so you never have to speak to them.
We immediately have the IRS stop all of their enforcement action with that first call.
We make sure the tax liability is correct by pulling tax transcripts and documents from the IRS’ computer.
We file any returns that the IRS needs to get you current. All tax returns must be filed before the IRS will consider any agreements.
We make sure your case is settled for the lowest possible amount allowed by law by going over all the different options that are available to you.
Fresh Start Tax is one of the premier tax resolution firms in the country. We deal with all types of civil cases including individuals, businesses, non-profits, partnerships and corporations. We have staff that specialize in every facet of IRS representation. We know all the IRS tax strategies because of our extensive IRS working backgrounds. Some of our many specialties include the following:
Immediate Tax Representation
Offers in Compromise/Settlements
Immediate Release of Bank Garnishments or Wage Levies
IRS Notices/Bill of Intent to Levy or Final Notices
Fresh Start Tax L.L.C A Professional Tax Firm “A” Rated by the Better Business Bureau
Our tax firm is comprised of Board Certified Tax Attorneys, Lawyers, CPAs and former IRS Agents, Managers and Instructors. We handle all IRS Tax Representation matters. We have 140 years of direct IRS tax experience, 60 years working for the IRS and former district level teachers while there.
We are certified and approved by the Internal Revenue Service.
Fresh Start Tax is one of the premier tax resolution firms in the country. We deal with all types of civil cases including individuals, businesses, non-profits, partnerships and corporations. We have staff that specialize in every facet of IRS representation. We know all the IRS tax strategies because of our extensive IRS working backgrounds. Some of our many specialties include the following:
Immediate Tax Representation
Offers in Compromise/Settlements
Immediate Release of Bank Garnishments or Wage Levies
IRS Notices/Bill of Intent to Levy or Final Notices
The IRS Federal Tax Levy is the ultimate collection tool that the IRS uses to grab the attention of the taxpayer who has not filed or paid their taxes. These levies are sent out, and with one mail delivery, a person’s life will change.
Levies are usually sent to three places:
Your employer
A 1099 source of income
Your bank
The IRS gets their levy source information not from a sweep of banks, but from your tax returns. Your employer , banks and third parties issue W-2’s and 1099’s to the IRS and those information documents provide the IRS with what they need to levy.
So, how do you stop a tax levy?
You can pay the tax in full. Simply send a check to the IRS in overnight mail and they will release the federal tax levy. Not so easy if you are broke.
You can set up a payment plan or installment agreement. Simply fill out a 433-F and call the IRS.
You can set up a partial payment agreement. This agreement is based on the fact you are a hardship candidate but want to still make payments.
Offer in Compromise. There are three types of Offers in Compromise. Check with a tax professional about the filing of an OIC.
You have a hardship. There are national standards of acceptable living expenses in all parts of the county. If you fall under those criteria, the IRS can put you into a Hardship or uncollectible status.
You can post a bond. It must be for the full amount of the tax.
Bankruptcy settlement will release a tax levy, bank or wage by court order and return seized assets to you.
Let the 10 year statute of limitations expire – The IRS has 10 years to collect taxes from the initial date of assessment. Once the 10 year period is up, the IRS can no longer collect from you.
To determine the best way to get your levy released, hire a good tax professional.
Fresh Start Tax 1-866-700-1040 Audit proof your tax return today with us
Fresh Start Tax wants to advise you of different filing statuses available to taxpayers.
The first step to filing your federal income tax return is to determine which filing status to use. Your filing status is used to determine your filing requirements, standard deduction, eligibility for certain credits and deductions, and your correct tax.
There are five filing statuses: Single, Married Filing Jointly, Married Filing Separately, Head of Household and Qualifying Widow(er) with Dependent Child.
Your marital status on the last day of the year determines your marital status for the entire year.
If more than one filing status applies to you, choose the one that gives you the lowest tax obligation.
Single filing status generally applies to anyone who is unmarried, divorced or legally separated according to state law.
A married couple may file a joint return together. The couple’s filing status would be Married Filing Jointly. If your spouse died during the year and you did not remarry during 2010, usually you may still file a joint return with that spouse for the year of death.
A married couple may elect to file their returns separately. Each person’s filing status would generally be Married Filing Separately.
Head of Household generally applies to taxpayers who are unmarried. You must also have paid more than half the cost of maintaining a home for you and a qualifying person to qualify for this filing status.
You may be able to choose Qualifying Widow(er) with Dependent Child as your filing status if your spouse died during 2008 or 2009, you have a dependent child and you meet certain other conditions.
The IRS has had a policy for many years that if a taxpayer cannot pay their tax bill, they would file a federal tax lien to protect the government’s interest.
In many cases the IRS was aware the lien would never be paid off and that they would hurt the taxpayers credit and their ability to secure loans in the future.
Since a federal tax lien is good for a ten year period of time, what the IRS does by filing it is totally cripple the taxpayer’s ability to borrow money in the future because their credit was ruined from the filing.
For years, Nina Olsen the National Taxpayers Advocate, has been highlighting this issue in her National report to Congress. Here is her latest finding:
” Over the past seven years, the IRS has filed more than five million tax liens. The report says that despite the high unemployment rate and the unusually large number of Americans who are experiencing financial difficulties, the IRS is continuing to ramp up the number of tax liens it files each year. The 1.1 million liens filed in FY 2010 compare with 168,000 in FY 1999, an increase of 550 percent. Notably, over the same period that lien filings have increased by 550 percent, annual revenue collected by the IRS’s Collection function on an inflation-adjusted basis has remained flat. By filing a lien against a taxpayer with no money and no assets, the IRS often collects nothing, yet it inflicts long-term harm on the taxpayer by making it harder for him to get back on his feet when he does get a job,”
Olson closed her remarks saying that this practice is “unacceptable.”
It is possible to file a Collection Due Process Proceeding. At those hearings the taxpayer may be successful in requesting from the IRS the non-filing of the Federal Tax Liens because it would defeat the purpose of being able to pay the IRS back in the future.
