by Fresh Start Tax | Oct 11, 2018 | Tax Help
We are local tax firm and one of the best IRS tax defense firms at Tax Resolution. We are located in South Florida and have been practicing since 1982.
Since 1982 we have been resolving IRS tax issues and we have an amazing history of successful client work and satisfied customers and that is due to the experience we have in dealing with IRS tax problems and tax issues and IRS tax relief.
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On staff are former IRS agents, managers and teaching instructors who were supervisors and managers while working at the Internal Revenue Service. Most of our work experiences directly in the South Florida IRS offices.
As a result of all of our work experience, we understand the methodologies and all the procedures to close IRS cases in the most prudent and affordable manner. true IRS tax resolution should be handled by experienced veterans who work thousands of cases.
Over the years we have worked thousands of cases. Fresh start tax to people work every single case so you have two sets of eyes on your tax issue.
Upon your initial consultation in almost all cases we will let you know how your tax case will resolve itself and exactly how much it will cost you.
Each case has its own unique set of circumstances so we will customize a specific plan of action based on your set of circumstances and financial matters. There are no two cases alike.
We have worked thousands of cases since 1982 and know the most efficient way to get you where you need to be.
You will never have to speak to Internal Revenue Service we will handle all communication with you to you and with the Internal Revenue Service.
The most popular program is the IRS offer in compromise because it settles your debt for pennies on the dollar but you must be sure you qualify for this type of settlement or you will waste your money. People such as you have given thousands of dollars to companies promising the settlements but there are qualifiers that the taxpayer must be aware of before they throw their money at somebody.
As a former IRS agent in teaching and structure of the offer in compromise I can let you know well ahead of time whether your offer will have any chance of acceptance and will be able settle your debt for the lowest allowable amount allowed by law if you qualify.
Offers in Compromise, the OIC, this is known as the pennies on a dollar program.
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.
We have over 60 years of direct work experience in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the Internal Revenue Service. We are true IRS experts who understand the IRS collection system.
All our work is done in-house and we are used by other firms to do their backend work.
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.
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.
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. Also keep in mind your offer may be worked by any person throughout the United States.
About 20% of all offers in compromise go to the Appellate Division for settlement.
You should know that not everyone is an offer in compromise candidate to settle their tax debt.
There are many companies out there today advertising pennies on the dollar and if you are not a true qualified candidate you should not be giving your money to any firm. The advice I give everyone is to speak to the person who is working your case and let them explain why you are a qualified candidate for the offer in compromise.
Make sure you are eligible for the OIC. Do not give your money to any company firm or otherwise until you know you are a qualified candidate.
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. When you are in a bankruptcy proceeding IRS literally freezes all activity on your account.
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.
Keep in mind IRS will process no offer in compromise until all documents are in the sent file.
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.
If accepted, you must continue to pay monthly until it is paid in full.
While your offer in compromise is being evaluated:
• 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. This very rarely happens but from time to time you get lucky and win the lottery.
Other: IRS tax relief programs
Many taxpayers for a variety of reasons cannot qualify for an offer in compromise and IRS has four other buckets of ways they close cases once they were open in the IRS collection
They are as followed:
Hardship, payment agreement, statute of expiration, bankruptcy.
1. For those who are financially strapped and qualify, IRS has a currently non-collectible program in which taxpayers who qualify IRS will temporarily suspend their case between one and three years and then kick the case out later and re-review the financial statement.
Approximately 40% of all people who are in the current IRS collection Q wind up in a temporarily non-collectible file.
2. While other people based on their current financial statement can make a payment arrangement with the Internal Revenue Service. Approximately 6.5 billion people wind up in payment agreements because of their current financial statement. The Internal Revenue Service will use the national standard test to make sure the agreement is fair and reasonable.
3. Others qualify because the statute of limitation has expired on their tax assessments. As a general rule IRS has approximately 10 years to collect all cases. we can pull IRS tax transcripts to find out how close you are to having your statute of limitations expired.
4. While others can file Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding. We were review with you each of the criteria when you call us.
Tax Return Note:
As a side note, taxpayers should be aware that all tax returns must be filed before they can have an approved offer in compromise. Before IRS will work an offer in compromise to settle your tax debt they will want all tax returns filed and they will want to make sure you are current on your ES payments or your withholding in the current year we are in.
If you submitted an offer in compromise and IRS finds your tax returns are not file they will return the offer to you.
We could prepare all back returns for you with little or no records. Please keep in mind that IRS can file your tax returns under 6020 B of the Internal Revenue Code.
The Internal Revenue Service keeps records for six years of all income source documents which means IRS has all your W-2s and 1099 s.
As former IRS agents we know the system and understand all the protocols to get you the very best result possible.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Oct 9, 2018 | Tax Help
We are a full-service tax defense firm that can provide affordable IRS tax help, Since 1982.
We been practicing in South Florida since 1982 and are a full-service firm that can handle your case if you owe IRS back taxes, going through an IRS tax audit, have received a bank or wage garnishment levy, need to take care of a federal tax lien or have back tax returns to file.
Please feel free to visit our offices Skype us or call us by phone.
IRS Tax Debt on Back Taxes
If you owe back tax debt to the Internal Revenue Service there are generally three options available to you to settle your IRS back debt.
As a general rule, IRS will take a current financial statement on a form 433 a or 433F.
IRS will expect that financial statement to be fully documented which includes copies of all expenses, bank statements and pay stubs and with that in hand the Internal Revenue Service will either place you into a non-collectible hardship status which will keep IRS at bay for one to three years and then the case will find its way back out to the field.
Or the Internal Revenue Service may ask you to make monthly payments because you have excess income over the allowable expenses.
IRS may also allow you to settle your tax debt for an offer in compromise.
When you call us for your free initial tax consultation we will walk you through the process and find out which method that IRS will accept based on your financial statement and your financial means.
There is very specific methodology that IRS will use to close your case.
If you have received an IRS audit lottery notice
IRS is auditing fewer and fewer returns every year and to be truthful if you have received an IRS audit notice it is just plain bad luck.
If you have received an IRS audit letter you can call us and speak to former IRS audit agents and audit managers and audit instructors.
We will walk you through the process of how IRS will work your IRS audit and give you the best possible tax defense. We are experts in IRS audit defense and appeals. please be advised that sometimes some of the best settlements for IRS audit winds up in the appeals division.
If you have received an IRS wage or bank garnishment levy call us today and as a general rule within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement we can get a release of an IRS bank or wage levy garnishment.
Before IRS will release a wage or bank garnishment levy they will want to see a copy of a current documented financial statement and please keep in mind all your tax returns must be filed and on record.
If you have a federal tax lien filed and want to hear the various options to get your lien fully released call and speak to former IRS collection agents who know all the systems. Their very specific ways that calls for a federal tax lien to be filed and depending on the circumstances of your case we will give you the very best, affordable, and fastest ways to get your federal tax lien released.
If you have the file back tax returns and have very little records we can prepare your returns under reconstructive methods. Based in our years and years of experience we understand all the processes all the methodologies.
Call us today for a free initial tax consultation.
by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 24, 2018 | Tax Help
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IRS audits less than 1% of all taxpayers nationwide.
Facts about IRS Tax Audits:
The IRS audits a total of 1,391,581 tax returns a year.
The IRS field agents complete more than 310,000 audits by office or business visits a year.
The IRS completes over 1,081,152 correspondence audits a year.
IRS has installed new software tracking systems with the development of the CADE 2 computer to spot and recognize tax audits more proficiently
IRS collected over $10 billion dollars a year from IRS tax audits.
IRS employs over 13,000 IRS auditors.
$5.2 billion dollars are collected through the IRS document matching program.
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IRS Policy Statement P-4-21. It states “The primary objective in selecting returns for examination is to promote the highest degree of voluntary compliance on the part of taxpayers.”
The IRS Tax Audit Examination Plan
The plan that is used by the IRS is based on long-range coverage planning, and objectives on the resources requested in the Congressional Budget. From this, there is an established plan where staff years are allocated to all area IRS offices using resource allocation and a prescribed methodology. Each Area Manager of the IRS is responsible for preparing an area response following instructions from the National Headquarters.
Employee Staffing for the IRS Tax Audit
Staffing is based on the examination priorities that differs from office to office and region to region, front loaded programs set up before hand, historic examination rates adjusted to yield sure ended results and audits that match experience of the personnel. Each region is excepted to produce tax audits and money from tax audits. IRS is funded thru results.
Why the IRS Audits Tax Returns
a. Front Loaded Programs
Front Loaded programs are those tax audits that IRS DC headquarters has determined are very important and a considerable amount of time must be spent on these programs and activities. Each area has discussions within management as to what the programs should be for each region, district, and office.
Some of the programs are:
Special enforcement programs – An example of this may be compliance of all flea market vendors, a program I was involved with
High Income non-filers – The IRS would get their information from a match program of w-2’s and 1099’s and match up social security numbers against filed returns
Abusive Tax Avoidance – This could be in the area of offshore activities
The offshore credit card program
National Research programs – Those set forth by management after doing a trends project
FBAR filing – IRS is currently targeting those with overseas bank accounts
Non- filers – IRS is presently forming a task force to seek non-filers though aggressive means.
b. The IRS makes sure there is balanced coverage.
The National Office makes sure there is a balanced approach for audit return delivery and tax compliance. Resources and inventory and the size of personnel all go into this formula. The focus is blended into these areas:
individual returns less than $100,000.
individual returns greater than $100,000 but less than $200,000.
individual returns greater than $ 200,000.
Small Business Corporations.
Small Business Flow-Through Entities – S Corporations, Fiduciaries and Partnerships.
c. Classification Plan
The IRS will prepare a plan, which is classified. A National DIF score indicator is placed on all Federal Income tax returns that are filed. Each tax return has certain factors that contribute to its score such as Gross Income, Adjusted Gross Income and line item expense.
There are several classified secrets that go into the DIF score.
Each tax return is processed through the IRS computer line item by line item.
A DIF score label is placed on every tax return with its DIF number. A tax examiner or Revenue Agent manually eyeballs each and every tax return with a high DIF score. The examiner then determine which return has the highest probability of tax audit success.
d. DIF Cutoff Score
The IRS will calculate the Area DIF cutoff score for each activity code, giving consideration to the selection rate. This is the lowest DIF score necessary to secure the number of returns required for audit. for example, if the return plan shows 225 returns for an activity code and the selection rate is 70%, the IRS will need to order 321 returns (225/70%).
The DIF Cut off Score is 500. The number of returns with DIF scores greater than 550 is 280, which is less than the number of returns required, so the lowest DIF score on an ordered return will be in the range of 500 to 550 and the DIF cutoff score is 500. This is the IRS example as found in the IRS IRM section 4.
e. Where your case is worked
Examination inventory is assigned to IRS offices based on ZIP codes, using the Look up Tables at Martinsburg Computing Center.
f. High Assault Risk Areas
Certain ZIP code areas are identified as High Assault Risk Areas. There are special instructions the IRS has regarding these audits. These returns will be audited.
Survey of Examination Cases.
The IRS can look over your case and close it with an eyeball look.
While cases should be selected and started in accordance with all guidelines, in a limited number of circumstances, there may be returns that appear in the “judgment of the examiner and manager” to warrant survey without taxpayer contact. That is to not even contact the taxpayer.
Cases delivered to the IRS area manager will generally fall into one of three categories: mandatory work, strategic (priority program) work, and non-strategic work.
Mandatory work includes nationally coordinated research projects such as NRP and employee audits (excludes “new” IRS employee audits)
Strategic work is identified annually in the Exam Program Letter which can be found at http://sbse.web.irs.gov/Exam/. The procedures to survey strategic work and referrals from other business units, “new” employee audits and cases with previous taxpayer contact require an explanation for the rationale for the survey.
Cases that are not mandatory work, strategic work, a referral from another business unit, and are not part of an employee examination or research study may be surveyed based upon the professional judgment of the examiner with concurrence of the immediate supervisor.
Here are some factors to consider when determining whether to survey strategic work:
Taxpayer is in bankruptcy
Taxpayer has suffered an extreme hardship or illness
Taxpayer is deceased, or
Examiner has additional information that was not available during classification
This is in the complete judgment of the IRS tax auditor
From year to year the IRS changes their programs to keep everyone honest. However, after years of experience, a trained eye can know what tax returns will be pulled for audit.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Jan 15, 2013 | Income Tax Preparation
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We had been preparing tax returns in South Florida since 1982.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 15, 2012 | Tax Lawyer
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Fresh Start Tax LLC is comprised of Board Certified Tax Attorneys, IRS Tax Lawyers, CPA’s and Former IRS Agents, Managers and Instructors.
We worked out of the local, district and regional offices of the South Florida IRS offices. We taught Tax Law at the IRS as Former IRS agents. On staff former IRS Appeals & Settlement Officers.
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Areas of Professional Tax Practice:
- Same Day IRS Tax Representation
- Offers in Compromise or IRS Tax Debt Settlements
- Immediate Release of IRS Bank Levies or IRS Wage Garnishments
- Tax Relief from a IRS Bill, Letter or Notice of “Intent to Levy”
- IRS Tax Audits
- IRS Hardships Cases or Unable to Pay
- Payment Plans, Installment Agreements, Structured agreements
- Abatement of Penalties and Interest
- State Sales Tax Cases
- Payroll / Trust Fund Penalty Cases / 6672
- Filing Late, Back, Unfiled Tax Returns
- Tax Return Reconstruction if Tax Records are lost or destroyed
- Expatriate Representation
- FBAR Filing and Representation
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