by Jim Magary | Aug 11, 2015 | Tax Help
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If you want to settle your back taxes, IRS will require a current financial statement along with documentation. Your current financial statement is the key to success. It is IRS’s sole determining factor on how your case will close.
IRS rules require only form 433F or 433A may be used along with bank statements, copy of pay stubs, and monthly expenditures.
The Internal Revenue Service will compare your expenses against your income and compare that to that of the national, regional, and localized standards and come up with the ruling.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 11, 2015 | Tax Help
We are “AFFORDABLE” IRS specialist experts for the Offer in Compromise for those wishing to settle their IRS tax debt.
Former IRS Agents, since 1982. Former IRS OIC Specialist. We have a combined 60 years of direct IRS work experience
We are composed of former IRS agents and managers who were former employees of the Internal Revenue Service.
I am a former IRS agent and teaching instructor of the offer in compromise or tax debt settlement program along with other IRS programs and systems. I have worked many offers in compromises when I was with the Internal Revenue Service. I understand the system quite well.
We have over 60 years of direct work experience in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the Internal Revenue Service.
You can call us today for free initial tax consultation and find out if you are a true offer in compromise tax debt settlement candidate.
Not everyone is eligible for the program. as a general rule you must offer your total equity and all your assets.
Due to the IRS new fresh start initiative set out by the Internal Revenue Service many more taxpayers are eligible for the tax debt settlement.
As a former IRS agent, I would let all individuals who are trying to settle their debt on the own to understand that this is a long process.
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.
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 on Offers in Compromise
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.
Make 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 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
Your initial payment will vary based on your offer and the payment option you choose:
• 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.
• 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. You may not miss a payment or your offer will be nullified.
If accepted, you must continue to pay monthly until it is paid in full.
While your offer in compromise is being evaluated keep this in mind:
• 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.
Before you file an offer in compromise once again I remind everyone to walk through the pre-qualifier tool to make sure they are qualified candidate.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 11, 2015 | Tax Help
We are “Affordable IRS Tax Experts”.
We have been in practice since 1982, Former IRS.
We can fully resolve an IRS tax problem. We are the IRS Tax Help Firm
There are different ways to resolve your IRS issue. We know the system because of our 60 years of working directly for IRS. We know all the systems in all the protocols.
If you owe Internal Revenue Service call us today and find out if your case is eligible hardship, settlement or payment plan program.
If you need to have a IRS tax levy a wage garnishment released or removed we can immediately and permanently get your levy released. We cannot only get your IRS tax levy released we can settle your case in closing off the IRS enforcement computer.
When you call our office you will speak directly to former IRS agents, managers and tax instructors that have over 60 years of working directly for the Internal Revenue Service in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the IRS.
For those of you who need to file tax returns whether current or back years, call us today and we will walk you through the process of our learning experiences that total 206 years.There is an acceptable successful resolution for every tax case if you know the system.
IRS Installment Agreements / IRS Payment Agreements
Last year the Internal Revenue Service granted close to 6 million IRS payment plans, installment agreements and streamlined payment plans to taxpayers.So you are not alone millions of taxpayers need payment agreements to pay off IRS. In the last three years alone IRS is initiated 20 million payment agreements for taxpayers who cannot afford to pay their taxes.
It is important to understand if you want a payment agreement with Internal Revenue Service all your tax returns have to be filed.
Call us today for free initial tax consultation and we will walk you through the process to get you an IRS payment plan, installment agreement or tell you how to make an affordable monthly streamlined payment with the Internal Revenue Service.
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.
You must be eligible for that program.
The way you can settle your tax debt for pennies on the dollar is through the offer in compromise program.
We will carefully walk through the offer in compromise program as well as the pre-qualifier tool to make sure you are qualified before you spend any of your money.
When you call our office you will speak directly to a former IRS agent who both worked and taught the program for IRS.
Last year approximately 38% of tax files who filed for the offer in compromise had their cases accepted for an average of $6500 per case, please understand that is the national average. each case is different and is completely reliant on your current financial statement. Taxpayers who want to file for offer in compromise must fill out form 433 OIC.
Stopping an IRS tax levy, wage garnishment.
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. IRS will need copies of your last paystub, last three months pay statements and a copy of all monthly expenses.
They will compare that against the national, local and geographical averages. after a careful review and close your case off the IRS collection computer and issue a tax levy garnishment release.
Within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement as a general rule we can get your bank or wage levy garnishment released. The only thing that slows us down is getting your current financial statement documentation.
Need to file back income or business tax returns
You could have a former IRS agent who knows the system prepare your back tax returns with little or few records. We can make sure you pay the lowest amount of tax allowed by law.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 10, 2015 | Tax Help
We are “Affordable IRS Tax Experts”.
We have been in practice since 1982, Former IRS. We can fully resolve an IRS tax problem. We are the IRS Tax Help Firm
There are different ways to resolve your IRS issue. We know the system because of our 60 years of working directly for IRS. We know all the systems in all the protocols.
If you owe Internal Revenue Service call us today and find out if your case is eligible hardship, settlement or payment plan program.
If you need to have a IRS tax levy a wage garnishment released or removed we can immediately and permanently get your levy released
We cannot only get your IRS tax levy released we can settle your case in closing off the IRS enforcement computer.
When you call our office you will speak directly to former IRS agents, managers and tax instructors that have over 60 years of working directly for the Internal Revenue Service in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the IRS.
We can review with you the best possible way to make an IRS payment plan, how to remove an IRS tax levy and to represent you during an IRS tax audit.
For those of you who need to file tax returns whether current or back years, call us today and we will walk you through the process of our learning experiences that total 206 years.
IRS Installment Agreements / IRS Payment Agreements
Last year the Internal Revenue Service granted close to 6 million IRS payment plans, installment agreements and streamlined payment plans to taxpayers.
So you are not alone millions of taxpayers need payment agreements to pay off IRS. In the last three years alone IRS is initiated 20 million payment agreements for taxpayers who cannot afford to pay their taxes.
It is important to understand if you want a payment agreement with Internal Revenue Service all your tax returns have to be filed.
Call us today for free initial tax consultation and we will walk you through the process to get you an IRS payment plan, installment agreement or tell you how to make an affordable monthly streamlined payment with the Internal Revenue Service.
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. You must be eligible for that program.
The way you can settle your tax debt for pennies on the dollar is through the offer in compromise program. There is very specific criteria to qualify.
We will carefully walk through the offer in compromise program as well as the pre-qualifier tool to make sure you are qualified before you spend any of your money.
When you call our office you will speak directly to a former IRS agent who both worked and taught the program for IRS.
Last year approximately 38% of tax files who filed for the offer in compromise had their cases accepted for an average of $6500 per case, please understand that is the national average.
Removing/Releasing an IRS tax levy & wage garnishment. 668A,668W
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. IRS will need copies of your last paystub, last three months pay statements and a copy of all monthly expenses.
They will compare that against the national, local and geographical averages. after a careful review and close your case off the IRS collection computer and issue a tax levy garnishment release.
Within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement as a general rule we can get your bank or wage levy garnishment released.
Need to file back income or business tax returns
You could have a former IRS agent who knows the system prepare your back tax returns with little or few records. We can make sure you pay the lowest amount of tax allowed by law.
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by Jim Magary | Aug 10, 2015 | Tax Help
If the Internal Revenue Service is auditing your tax return and you have received CP 75 a notice requesting for supporting documentation, call us today for a free initial tax consultation.
You can be represented by former IRS audit managers and agency know the system inside and out
Understanding Your CP75 Notice Request for Supporting Documentation
You received this CP75 notice, because the IRS is auditing your return.
IRS will be keeping your refund until your audit is done.
You must send in the information we need before we can send your refund.
Please don’t ignore this notice.
It’s very important that the IRS hears from you by the date shown on your notice.
Your IRS audit notice tells you what items on your tax return the IRS is auditing.
The other included forms tell you what you need to send to get your refund or provide other helpful information.
Before the IRS begins, here are some important tips:
• At the top of your notice on the right side, we list the tax year your notice is about. When we use the term tax year, we mean that year.
• Any documents you send in need to cover the year we are auditing.
• Don’t send original documents. Send us copies.
Earned Income Tax Credit
The first item listed is the earned income tax credit. Your package includes a Form 886-H-EIC (PDF) that lists all the different documents you can send to prove you can claim the EIC with your qualifying child or children.
You can send any combination of these documents to get the information we need. Look at the Form 1040A or 1040, Schedule EIC (PDF) you filed with your tax return and complete the following steps for each child listed:
• First, you must prove you lived with your child in the U.S. for more than half the tax year:
◦ If your child lived with you at the address shown on your notice, you need to send a document showing your child lived at that same address during the tax year. for example: you could send copies of school records for your child that have your name and show the child’s address. The dates on the document must be for more than six months of the tax year.
◦ If you moved and you and your child lived at another address, you need to send documents showing the same address for both of you during the tax year.
◦ If your child did not go to school, you can send in copies of medical records or a statement from the daycare provider.
◦ If you can’t prove your child lived with you for more than half the year, you don’t qualify for the EIC
• Second, you must prove how you are related to the child. The child must be related to you in one of the ways listed on the Form 886-H-EIC. The form gives examples of what to send to prove how you are related.
• Third, if your child is age 19 years old or over, you must show either:
◦ Your child was under age 24 and a full-time student for at least five months of the tax year (you can do this by sending copies of official school records), or
◦ Your child is permanently and totally disabled by sending a copy of one of the official documents shown on Form 886-H-EIC.
You can only claim the earned income tax credit if your child lived with you for more than half the year in the United States, your child is related to you in one of the ways listed on the Form 886-H-EIC, and your child was an eligible age.
Your child must meet all three of these to qualify you for the credit. If you can’t show all three, you may still be eligible for the credit without a qualifying child.
Dependents
The next item is dependents.
Your dependents are listed in the middle of the first page of your tax return. The Form 886-H-DEP (PDF) section for your qualifying child lists all the documents or combination of documents you can use to prove you can claim each child listed as your dependent.
To claim a child or other relative as a dependent, the person must have lived with you for more than half the tax year (the residency test), be related to you (the relationship test), be a certain age (the age test), and not have provided half of his or her own support (the support test).
• If each child listed on your Schedule EIC is the same one you claimed as a dependent, you can use the same documents you use for EIC to prove the child met the tests for a dependent.
You don’t have to send in copies of the same documents or look for different ones.
But, you must look at the Form 886-H-DEP to see if the child meets the support test for you.
• Support Test
◦ To meet the support test, the child can’t pay more than half of his or her own support.
◦ We do not consider money received from your state, local, or other social service agencies or societies as support provided by either you or the child.
◦ You do not need to send proof of support at this time.
◦ If you received this CP75 notice, you claimed your dependent as a qualifying child, so the qualifying relative part of the Form 886-H-DEP doesn’t apply to you.
Filing Status
The next item listed is filing status. Look at the first page of your tax return (below your name and address) for your filing status.
If you filed as head of household, you need to look at the Form 886-H-HOH (PDF) that lists all the different documents or combination of documents you can send to claim this filing status.
To file as head of household, you must pass three tests: the marriage test, the qualifying person test, and the cost of keeping up a home test.
• First, you must meet the marriage test:
◦ If you were never married or you are a widow or widower, do not submit anything for the marriage test. Only submit documents for the qualifying person and cost of keeping up home tests.
◦ You can’t be married and living with your spouse and claim the head of household filing status.
◦ If you are still married and lived with your spouse at any time during the last six months of the year, you cannot file as head of household. You must file either as married filing jointly or married filing separately.
◦ If you were divorced or legally separated by December 31 of the tax year on your notice, you need to send your divorce decree or separation papers.
◦ If you are still married but lived apart for the last six months of the tax year shown on your notice, you need to send us documents, such as a lease agreement, showing you and your spouse lived at different addresses.
• Next is the qualifying person test: The documents you send for EIC and dependents show you met this test, so you don’t need to send us any more documents for this test.
• Third is the cost of keeping up a home test:
◦ If you didn’t meet both the marriage and the qualifying person tests, you can’t file as head of household.
◦ If you met both the marriage and the qualifying person test, you must send documents showing you paid more than half the cost of keeping up the home the qualifying person and you lived in for the tax year. You need to send us documents showing you paid more than half the household bills, such as rent, utility, grocery, repairs, and maintenance bills.
◦ If you checked any other filing status box other than head of household, you do not have to send anything in to prove your filing status.
American Opportunity Credit
The next section is the American opportunity credit. If you claimed this credit, you should have a Form 8863 (PDF), Education Credits, with your tax return.
Also, look for one or two entries on the second page of your tax return for the lines listing Education credits or the American opportunity credit. If your tax return shows you did not claim the credit, you do not need to send documents to prove this credit.
If you claimed this credit, the student claimed on your Form 8863 should have received a Form 1098-T (PDF), Tuition Statement. If the student didn’t get the Form 1098-T, he or she should contact the school to get a copy.
If you received payments for education expenses from your employer, veterans educational assistance or other benefits, you can’t claim these same expenses for this tax credit.
You have to subtract the expenses paid by these payments and benefits from your total tuition and other eligible expenses.
• If you claimed an education credit, we need proof that each student listed on the Form 8863 is eligible. The Form 1098-T has the amount of qualified education expenses paid or billed in boxes 1 or 2. We need a copy of that form.
• If you can’t get the Form 1098-T or substitute form from your student’s school, you can send the transcript from the school showing when the student attended during the tax year and the receipts or checking account statements showing payments for the tuition and fees.
• If you had more expenses than the amounts listed in boxes 1 or 2, we need cancelled checks or receipts for fees, books, and supplies needed for the course or courses.
If You Have additional Items Listed
Your notice may have more items listed such as the Premium Tax Credit or Schedule C. First, let’s cover other important items we sent you.
Make sure you mail or fax all the necessary documents by the date in this section. If you need more time to get all the documents ready, call us at the number listed on the top right of the page.
But, if you review your return and your notice and realize you didn’t qualify for any of the items shown on your notice, don’t send anything.
IRS will get back to you with an examination report after the deadline shown on your notice.
Response Form
The last part of the notice is the response form.
If you have documents proving you can claim one or more of the items listed, you need to complete the response form and either:
• Fax it to us with copies of the records, documents, and statements toll-free to the fax number on your notice, 855-235-6788, or
• Return it to us with copies of the records, documents, and statements in the return envelope in your packet or to the address shown on the notice.
After IRS receives Your Information
It takes at least 30 days to review the documents you send us.
You don’t need to do anything until you hear from us. If you sent us copies of the right documents to prove you are eligible for items you claimed on your tax return, we send a notice to let you know your audit is closed.
After it is closed, you should get your refund in four to six weeks. If the documents don’t give us the information we need or only prove some of the items, we send you an audit report. The report explains our proposed changes and shows the amount of tax you owe or the corrected amount of any refund you may get.
Your Rights During an Audit
Your packet includes Publication 3498A (PDF), The Examination Process (Examinations by Mail). This publication covers what happens during an audit by notice, your rights during the audit, and it explains your rights to appeal the results of the audit. It also lists more resources to help you.
Your packet also includes Publication 4134 (PDF), Low Income Taxpayer Clinic List. Low-income taxpayer clinics (LITCs) are not part of the IRS but are there to help you with an audit, an appeal, or collection issue for free or for a small fee.
Where to Get More Help
We also list on the notice important numbers and websites you can use if you need more help. You can find this under the additional information heading. Also, you can:
• Get a Transcript to review your tax account transactions or line-by-line return information for a specific tax year, or refer to transcript types for more information including wage and income transcripts.
• Visit the EITC home page for more information about the credit and links to other topics discussed.
• If you aren’t sure you qualified for EIC, or will qualify this year, or to find your filing status, use the IRS’s EITC Assistant.
additional Items on Your Notice
Form 1040, Schedule C (PDF), the Premium Tax Credit, and other forms that may be with your notice.
Schedule C
If your notice lists Schedule C income, look at Form 11652 (PDF), Questionnaire and Supporting Documentation, Form 1040 Schedule C (Profit or Loss from Business). It lists the documents you need to send to prove your income and expenses. Please review each line of this form and make sure you answer every question.
Return the Form 11652 with the requested supporting documents, for example, copies of your business records, Form 1099-MISC (PDF), and your business license.
We don’t require that you keep records in any special manner in most cases, but you need to keep all documents you use to complete your tax return.
This includes records supporting the income, expenses, deductions or credits you claim, meaning you must keep all invoices, receipts, mileage logs, and checking account statements showing amounts paid and any other proofs of payment.
You need to keep well-organized records to answer any questions when your return is selected for audit. And, you need to keep the records supporting items on your tax returns for at least three years after filing your return.
You need to send copies of your records that show you earned the income claimed on your Schedule C. You must send enough copies of your records and documents to prove you ran your business during the tax year under audit such as, documents that show your gross receipts and expenses. You must report all your income and all your expenses.
You can’t choose not to take any expenses or to claim only some of the expenses.
• Gross receipts are the income from your business and include cash register tapes, bank deposit slips, receipt books, invoices, credit card charge slips, and Forms 1099-MISC
• Expenses are the costs paid to carry on your business and include canceled checks or checking account statements clearly showing the expenses paid, cash register tapes, account statements, credit card sales slips, and invoices.
After you complete your response, please look at the Form 11652 to make sure you included all the necessary information.
If you need additional information about recordkeeping, see Publication 583, Starting a Business and Keeping Records.
Premium Tax Credit
If your notice lists the premium tax credit (PTC), look at the Form 14950 (PDF), Premium Tax Credit Verification. This form lists what document or documents you need to submit to prove you qualify for this credit.
You must have health insurance through an exchange marketplace to claim this credit. If you did not get your health insurance through a marketplace, you are not eligible for the PTC and you don’t need to send any information to prove this credit.
If you bought your insurance through the marketplace, you need to send copies of documents to support any entries you have on Part 4, Allocation of Credit, or part 5, Alternative Calculation for Marriage on your Form 8962 (PDF), Premium Tax Credit (PTC). We need a document showing who your plan covers. This list is on your insurance enrollment form or on a statement from your insurance provider.
If you paid insurance premiums, submit the proof of payment. This can be paid receipts, credit card statements, bank statements showing who was paid, or copies of both sides of your cancelled checks.
You also need to submit a copy of your Form 1095-A (PDF), Health Insurance Marketplace Statement, and Form 1095-B (PDF), Health Coverage, from your insurance provider. If you did not receive these forms or you didn’t keep them, contact your insurance provider or plan administrator.
by Jim Magary | Aug 10, 2015 | Tax Help
The IRS Collection Process
If you do not pay your tax in full when you file your tax return, you will receive a bill for the amount you owe.
This bill starts the collection process, which continues until your account is satisfied or until the IRS may no longer legally collect the tax; for example, when the time or period for collection has expired.
The first notice you receive will be a letter that explains the balance due and demands payment in full.The Internal Revenue Service sends bills on a five-week cycles. Bills can range between 2 to 5 different bills, each one with strong language. Most of the time it depends on the taxpayer’s history.
It will include the amount of the tax, plus any penalties and interest accrued on your unpaid balance from the date the tax was due.
IRS electronic payment options are the best way for you to pay federal taxes.
Paying electronically is the most convenient and secure way to make tax payments. You can make electronic payments online, by phone or from a mobile device.
Paying electronically is safe, the IRS uses the latest encryption technology and does not store banking information.
You determine the payment date and you will receive an immediate confirmation from the IRS. It’s quick, easy, secure and much faster than mailing in a check or money order.
Electronic payment options are available on the IRS.gov Payments page.
Direct Pay is a secure service you can use to pay your individual tax bill or estimated tax payment directly from your checking or savings account at no cost to you.
In just five easy steps you’ll receive instant confirmation that your payment has been submitted.
Direct Pay is the recommended way to pay your individual and estimated tax bill.
However, if you decide to pay by mail, enclose a check or money order with a copy of your notice.
Make it payable to the United States Treasury and provide your name, address, daytime phone number, SSN, tax period and form number (2014 F1040) on the front of your payment.
If you cannot pay in full, you should send in as much as you can with the notice and explore other payment arrangements. If you cannot pay the Internal Revenue Service usually find a tax professional who can work for you.
Most of the time IRS will secure a financial statement and after review place you into hardship, month payment agreements or the possibility of setting your tax that front offer compromise.
The unpaid balance is subject to interest that compounds daily and a monthly late payment penalty. It is in your best interest to pay your tax liability in full as soon as you can to minimize the penalty and interest charges.
Ways to Pay IRS
Direct debit installment agreements offer a lower user fee than other installment agreements and help you to avoid defaulting on your agreement by allowing timely payments automatically.
To have the payment directly debited from your bank account, complete lines 13a. and 13b of Form 9465. Interest and late payment penalties will continue to accrue while you make installment payments.
If you cannot full pay under an installment agreement, you may propose an offer in compromise (OIC).
A OIC is an agreement between a taxpayer and the IRS that resolves a taxpayer’s tax liability by payment of an agreed upon reduced amount. Before an offer can be considered, all filing and payment requirements must be current. Taxpayers in an open bankruptcy proceeding are not eligible.
If you need more time to pay, you may ask that we delay collection and report your account as currently not collectible. If the IRS determines that you cannot pay any of your tax debt due to a financial hardship, the IRS may temporarily delay collection by reporting your account as currently not collectible until your financial condition improves.
Being currently not collectible does not mean the debt goes away. It means the IRS has determined you cannot afford to pay the debt at this time.
Prior to approving your request to delay collection, IRS may ask you to complete a Collection Information Statement ( Form 433-F (PDF), Form 433-A (PDF) or Form 433-B (PDF)) and provide proof of your financial status (this may include information about your assets and your monthly income and expenses).
If IRS does delay collecting from you, your debt will increase because penalties and interest are charged until you pay the full amount. The IRS may temporarily suspend certain collection actions, such as issuing a levy (explained below), until your financial condition improves.
However, IRS may still file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien (explained below) while your account is suspended. Please call the phone number listed on your bill to discuss this option.
If you are a member of the Armed Forces, you may be able to defer payment. See Publication 3, Armed Forces’ Tax Guide.
It is important to contact us and make arrangements to pay the tax due voluntarily.
If you do not contact us, we may take action to collect the taxes including:
1. Filing a Notice of Federal Tax Lien
2. Serving a Notice of Levy, or
3. Offsetting a refund to which you are entitled
A federal tax lien is a legal claim to your property, including property that you acquire after the lien arises.
The federal tax lien arises automatically when you fail to pay in full the taxes you owe within ten days after we make an assessment of the tax and send the first notice of taxes owed and demand for payment.
The government may also file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien in the public records, which publicly notifies your creditors that the IRS has a claim against all your property, including property acquired by you after the filing of the Notice of Federal Tax Lien.
The filing of a Notice of Federal Tax Lien may appear on your credit report and may harm your credit rating.
Once a lien arises, the IRS generally cannot release the lien until the tax, penalty, interest, and recording fees are paid in full or until the IRS may no longer legally collect the tax.
The IRS will withdraw a Notice of Federal Tax Lien if the Notice was filed while a bankruptcy automatic stay was in effect.
The IRS may withdraw a Notice of Federal Tax Lien if the IRS determines:
1. The Notice was filed too soon or not according to IRS procedures;
2. You enter into an installment agreement to satisfy the liability unless the installment agreement provides otherwise;
3. Withdrawal will allow you to pay your taxes more quickly; or
4. Withdrawal is in your best interest, as determined by the National Taxpayer Advocate, and the best interest of the government.
The IRS may levy (seize) assets such as wages, bank accounts, Social Security benefits and retirement income.
The IRS also may seize your property including your car, boat or real estate to sell the property to satisfy the tax debt.
In addition, any future federal tax refunds or state income tax refunds that you are due, may be seized and applied to your federal tax liability. See Topic 203 for refund offsets.
You may call the IRS at 800-829-1040 to discuss any IRS bill. Please have the bill and your records with you when you call.
You have rights and protections throughout the collection process.
