by Jim Magary | Aug 13, 2015 | Tax Help
The taxpayer’s advocate services designed to help taxpayers, businesses and corporations going through tax problem situations that they have not been able to administratively resolve through the automatic collection system.
If you are a stalemate with the Internal Revenue Service and need professional help is best to call former IRS agents and managers who know the system.
Below you will find the things that you should know about taxpayer service. Most of the time they are quite helpful.
Things to Know about the Taxpayer Advocate Service
1. TAS is Your Voice at IRS.
The Taxpayer Advocate Service, or TAS, is your voice at the IRS. We are an independent organization within the IRS.
2. TAS Helps Resolve Problems.
TAS helps individuals, businesses and exempt organizations who are not able to resolve their tax problems with the IRS.
TAS can help if:
• Your problem is causing financial difficulty for you, your family, or your business.
• You, your business or your organization is facing an immediate threat of adverse action.
• You have tried repeatedly to contact the IRS but no one has responded.
We will also help if the IRS has not responded by the date promised.
3. Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
The IRS has adopted a Taxpayer Bill of Rights that includes 10 basic rights that every taxpayer has when interacting with the IRS:
• The right to be informed.
• The right to quality service.
• The right to pay no more than the correct amount of tax.
• The right to challenge the IRS’s position and be heard.
• The right to appeal an IRS decision in an independent forum.
• The right to finality.
• The right to privacy.
• The right to confidentiality.
• The right to retain representation.
• The right to a fair and just tax system.
4. TAS Protects Your Rights.
TAS protects taxpayers’ rights by ensuring that the IRS treats all taxpayers fairly and that you know and understand your rights.
Our taxpayer rights web page can help you understand what these rights mean to you and how they apply.
5. TAS on the Web Toolkit Can Help.
The TAS Tax Toolkit at Taxpayer Advocate.irs.gov explains common tax issues. It also offers self-help videos and documents. You can use the site’s information to solve your tax problem or help you understand it when you work with the IRS and your tax preparer.
6. Report a Problem that Affects Many Taxpayers. TAS also handles large-scale or “big picture” problems that affect many taxpayers.
You can report these issues at www.irs.gov/sams.
7. TAS in Every State.
We have offices in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Your local advocate’s number is in your local directory and at taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov.
You can also call us at 877-777-4778.
by Jim Magary | Aug 13, 2015 | Tax Help
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As a former IRS agents we were auditors, revenue agents, revenue officers, supervisors and taught at the regional training centers.
We know the IRS system inside and out, we taught IRS tax law as former IRS Agents.
With that much experience we understand the codes, protocols, settlement theories , and all the avenues to resolve any IRS back tax debt problem.
We can stop an IRS final notice, we can stop an IRS tax or wage garnishment levy and file any back tax returns that are currently not on file. We can reconstruct your tax return.
It is very important that every taxpayer respond to letters and notices out by the Internal Revenue Service. These IRS notices or time sensitive and IRS will follow-up with enforcement action if taxpayers failed to respond to IRS notifications.
Do not put your head in the sand because IRS will follow-up I know this being a former IRS agent and manager.
If you do not file your tax returns, IRS will file for you under code section 6020B, assess the tax , and then can send out bank and wage garnishment levies. They can also follow-up by filing a federal tax lien.
IRS enforcement computer CADE2 will follow-up on every action of a letter sent.
IRS sends out 1.9 million tax levies each and every year. This includes bank levies and wage garnishment & third-party seizures.
Not only does it send out IRS tax levies it also sends out 700,000 federal tax liens every year as well. They are a billing beast.
As a general rule, within 24 hours we can get your money back from Internal Revenue Service.
The closing method the IRS will use will depend currently on your financial statement.
As a general rule, cases either will be placed and to currently not collectible status or installment agreement.
Once we have your documented financial statement your case can will be resolved. Just for your information if you received an IRS wage levy by law your next paycheck goes to the Internal Revenue Service with some exemptions.
With a IRS bank levy there is a 21 day hold or freeze on the account. You can still continue to use your bank account.
On the 22nd day the banks will send the money to the Internal Revenue Service. Remember you are allowed to use your account freely during that period of time without fear of the second IRS levy.
The IRS will make sure that all your tax returns are filed and as a general rule will attempt to secure current financial statement so they can take your case off of all IRS enforcement computers.
With that in mind, the Internal Revenue Service will generally remedy your case by putting it into a non-collectible file, asking you to make payments, or letting you know you could be a choice candidate to settle your debts through the offer in compromise program.
Settling your IRS tax debt through the Offer in Compromise
I am a former IRS revenue officer who not only worked the program at IRS but was a regional trainer of the program.
I caution any taxpayer wanting to settle their debt for pennies on the dollar to make sure they are qualified applicants for the program.
When you call our office we will give you an initial free consultation to make sure you qualify.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 12, 2015 | Tax Help
As Former IRS Agents & Managers we specialize in AFFORDABLE immediate and permanent IRS Tax Relief.
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We have over 60 years of working directly for the Internal Revenue Service in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the IRS.
Not only were we former IRS agents and managers we were supervisors and tax instructors and taught new IRS agents there jobs.
We know the system inside and out. we understand every remedy possible to settle your IRS tax debt.
We know the working systems of the IRS, we have worked in almost every possible administration system within the Internal Revenue Service.
If you have received an IRS tax bill, final notice before levy or seizure, received a notice of levy on your wages or bank account, need to make a payment plan or settle your tax debt with the Internal Revenue Service contact us today for free initial tax consultation.
We’ve been in private practice since 1982 and have over 206 years of professional tax experience in dealing with IRS tax matters.
We can individualized a specific plan for you depending on your current financial statement.
If you have received an IRS tax levy, within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement we can get your tax levy released, if you have received an IRS federal tax lien, we can talk to you about different programs to get your lien released, if you need an IRS payment plan we will go over the different type of installment agreements they have for taxpayers.
Please note to all taxpayers:
As a former IRS agent and teaching instructor those tax bill notices are all time sensitive and must be addressed by the due dates on your mail correspondence.
IRS sends bills on billing cycles that are usually five weeks apart.
Failure to keep up with the due dates many times winds up as enforced collection actions by the Internal Revenue Service.
Therefore it is important to address these issues soon as the mail comes in. Also please understand that wait times are extensive and you can be holding on the phone for over one hour however you must persist and get through to the Internal Revenue Service. The top right corner of your last IRS correspondence lets you know where you are in the system.
Tax facts of interest:
1. IRS sends close to 2 million bank and wage garnishment levies each and every year,
2. Approximately 6.6 M people are on IRS payment plans,
3. Over 38% of all those who apply for an IRS tax settlement or approved by the Internal Revenue Service,
4. IRS sends out approximately 700,000 liens every year,
5. Over 40% of collection cases that IRS works winds of going into hardship.
6. Your chances of an IRS tax audit are less than 1%.
7. The average IRS settlement per offer a compromise was $6500 last year.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 12, 2015 | Tax Help
Reporting Guidance for Applicable Large Employers
Some of the provisions of the health care law apply only to applicable large employers, which is generally those with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees.
The law requires ALEs to file information returns in 2016 with the IRS and provide statements to their full-time employees about the health insurance coverage the employer offered.
Monthly Tracking
To prepare for the reporting requirements in 2016, applicable large employers should be tracking information each month of 2015, including:
• Whether you offered full-time employees and their dependents minimum essential coverage that meets the minimum value requirements and is affordable.
• Whether your employees enrolled in the self-insured minimum essential coverage you offered.
Annual Information Reporting
The first statements to employees must be provided by January 31, 2016, and the first information returns to the IRS must be filed by February 28, 2016, or March 31, 2016, if filed electronically.
• ALE members must file Form 1095-C, Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage, and Form 1094-C, Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns, with the IRS annually, no later than February 28 – March 31 if filed electronically – of the year immediately following the calendar year to which the return relates.
• ALE members are also required to provide a statement to each full-time employee that includes the same information provided to the IRS, by January 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year for which the information relates.
• ALEs that file 250 or more information returns during the calendar year must file the returns electronically. ALEs who are self-insured—who sponsor, self-insured group health plans—are subject to the employer information reporting requirements as well as the reporting requirements for providers of minimum essential coverage.
Other Reporting Requirements
• The Additional Medicare Tax applies to wages, compensation, and self-employment income.
As an employer, you must withhold and report an additional 0.9 percent on employee wages or compensation that exceeds $200,000.
• You may be required to report the value of the health insurance coverage you provided to each employee on his or her Form W-2.
by Jim Magary | Aug 11, 2015 | Tax Help
We are an Affordable Professional full service IRS tax firm that specialize in the resolution of all IRS tax matters. We are specialists for those who owe IRS back payroll taxes, 941 tax debt.
Being a former IRS revenue officer and teaching instructor, I worked hundreds upon hundreds of payroll tax cases and I understand the complexities and have immediate resolution options to go over to resolve any IRS tax debt problem. IRS is usually generally aggressive on back payroll tax issues. I would advise all taxpayers to be current in the present quarter. IRS tends to work with businesses and taxpayers that are rehabilitative and are attempting to stay current.
Hiring a professional tax firm can keep IRS out of your business so you can continue to manage and make your business profitable.
Each and every case has a viable solution. The key is knowing every possible option.
If you do not understand the IRS methods, IRS can dictate the way they choose to work your case. the fear of dealing with Internal Revenue Service and the threats that they can make can force taxpayers into decisions that is not in their best interest.
Unless you know the way the Internal Revenue Service operates you have no idea what you’re truly settling for.
As a former IRS agent revenue officer I can tell you that most taxpayers have no clue what’s going on in as a general rule they will believe anything the agent is telling them.
Don’t be trapped or tricked in to this mentality. It is well worth hiring a professional tax firm to deal with your back IRS tax debt payroll problem.
Due to our years of experience with the IRS, we know exactly how to handle IRS and find success in dealing with those who all back payroll tax debt to the Internal Revenue Service.
When you work with us we will submit an immediate power of attorney so the Internal Revenue Service only deals with us and you will never have to speak to IRS.
We will secure and review the necessary financial statements, the 433A& 433B, and talk to you about working out a viable solution to protect your business from the Internal Revenue Service.
Taxpayer should beware that IRS will impose a 6672 penalty, or the trust fund penalty for those responsible persons who were authorized to pay the back payroll taxes.
6672
a) General rule
Any person required to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over any tax imposed by this title who willfully fails to collect such tax, or truthfully account for and pay over such tax, or willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any such tax or the payment thereof, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be liable to a penalty equal to the total amount of the tax evaded, or not collected, or not accounted for and paid over.
No penalty shall be imposed under section 6653 or part II of subchapter A of chapter 68 for any offense to which this section is applicable.
(b) Preliminary notice requirement
(1) In general
No penalty shall be imposed under subsection (a) unless the Secretary notifies the taxpayer in writing by mail to an address as determined under section 6212 (b) or in person that the taxpayer shall be subject to an assessment of such penalty.
(2) Timing of notice
The mailing of the notice described in paragraph (1) (or, in the case of such a notice delivered in person, such delivery) shall precede any notice and demand of any penalty under subsection (a) by at least 60 days.
(3) Statute of limitations
If a notice described in paragraph (1) with respect to any penalty is mailed or delivered in person before the expiration of the period provided by section 6501 for the assessment of such penalty (determined without regard to this paragraph), the period provided by such section for the assessment of such penalty shall not expire before the later of—
(A) the date 90 days after the date on which such notice was mailed or delivered in person, or
(B) if there is a timely protest of the proposed assessment, the date 30 days after the Secretary makes a final administrative determination with respect to such protest.
(4) Exception for jeopardy
This subsection shall not apply if the Secretary finds that the collection of the penalty is in jeopardy.
Definition of wilfulness
1. The trust fund recovery penalty is a civil penalty; so the degree of wilfulness in failing to collect or pay over any tax leading to liability for this penalty is not as great as that necessary for criminal proceedings.
wilfulness in the context of the TFRP is defined as intentional, deliberate, voluntary, and knowing, as distinguished from accidental. “wilfulness” is the attitude of a responsible person who with free will or choice either intentionally disregards the law or is plainly indifferent to its requirements. Some factors to consider when determining wilfulness are:
• Whether the responsible person had knowledge of a pattern of noncompliance at the time the delinquencies were accruing;
• Whether the responsible person had received prior IRS notices indicating that employment tax returns have not been filed, or are inaccurate, or that employment taxes have not been paid;
• The actions the responsible party has taken to ensure its Federal employment tax obligations have been met after becoming aware of the tax delinquencies; and
• Whether fraud or deception was used to conceal the nonpayment of tax from detection by the responsible person.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 11, 2015 | Tax Help
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We have over 60 years of direct IRS work experience in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the Internal Revenue Service. We not only were former IRS agents but teaching instructors as well. We know every possible solution to any tax problem.
Our professional staff includes tax attorneys, tax lawyers, certified public accountants and array of former IRS agents, managers and teaching instructors.
We also have worked as IRS revenue agents, IRS revenue officers, IRS appeals officers and group managers. While employed Internal Revenue Service week taught income tax law, manual procedures as well as audit and collection manuals.
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If you have a problem that may be criminal in nature you can speak directly to an IRS tax attorney or tax lawyer.
Tax Levy
If you have received an IRS tax levy or wage garnishment levy, as a general rule within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement we can get your bank or wage levy released.
Back Tax Returns
If you need to file back tax returns we can prepare your returns with little or no records by pulling tax transcripts. We can prepare your back tax returns under reconstructive methods. It is important you file a tax return with IRS if you don’t, the IRS has the option for preparing your tax return under 6020 b of the code.
Payment plans
If you need to make a payment plan with the Internal Revenue Service, we can review the different payment plan options and get you started so you can get this problem behind you, your case closed and settled with the IRS today. There are basically three type of payment plans. Last year over 6.5 million taxpayers in turn to installment agreements.
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