by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 17, 2018 | Tax Help
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Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 11:14
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
I am a former IRS agent and teaching instructor with the Internal Revenue Service.
When I was employed by the Internal Revenue Service I work the offer in compromise program.
PROGRAMS: IRS & State Tax Programs:
There are three general programs both used by the state and federal governments. As a general rule you can be placed into current hardships, or your case can be placed in installment and monthly payment agreements or you can try to sell your debt to the various programs offered by state agencies or the Department of treasury the Internal Revenue Service which program is called the offer in compromise.
We can prepare all back tax returns with or without records get them on the IRS computer and settle your tax debt all at the same time.
As a result, we know all the inside secrets the methodologies and all the back tax programs to settle back taxes available.
Not only did I accept and reject offers in compromise, I was also a teaching instructor at the service center to help qualified revenue officers decide which offers to accept and reject.
Given the above information, I can tell you I am a true expert for the IRS offer in compromise and I wish to explain to you whether an offer in compromise is a viable option for you.
Due to social media, marketing and advertising the assumption by the general public is that IRS can settle tax debt for pennies on the dollar.
Let me first let you know that IRS does accept offers in compromise and as a matter of fact last year approximately 32,000 offers in compromise were accepted out of the 78,000 were filed.
That number varies from year to year but the percentages usually remain the same of acceptability.
The average settlement was $9500 per case but remember that is just an average in not everybody can settle their tax debt for $9500.
There is much information you need to know before you go off filing an offer of compromise and giving your money to some firm to try to pull off some amazing trick because you have been sold a bill of goods and bought in to some marketing ploy and they’ve convinced you are a settlement candidate.
The IRS Process:
It first starts with the review of your personal financial statement which is found on the 433 OIC.
When the offer in compromise gets sent in to the Internal Revenue Service it is met with the reviewer that make sure that you are truly qualified candidate for the offer in compromise program.
That reviewer checks the completed form to make sure it is a valid agreement. The offer in compromise is a legal document between you and the Internal Revenue Service.
If IRS were to accept the offer and the next day you win the lottery the accepted offer still stands.
Also reviewer make sure that all the documentation is attached so that the revenue officer who will work your offer in compromise can move forward.
Approximately one-third of all offers in compromise are sent back to the taxpayer because the offers are not filled out correctly or the appropriate documentation is not attached.
IRS will check to make sure all your tax returns are current and filed on the IRS system. Not only do your taxes have to be current with filing but IRS is also going to check to make sure your current on your withholding or your estimate tax payments.
It is critically important you know that you must have all tax returns filed before IRS will process your offer.
You should know that the Internal Revenue Service rejects an offer before it accepts an offer. one of the basic rules is that the revenue officer is lazy and is easier to mark rejected then they go through all the work of accepting an offer in compromise.
I should know this is a former instructor of the offer in compromise I see many revenue officers simply send offers back because some of the eyes were not dotted in the T’s were not crossed.
Due to the volume of cases the IRS has, which is over 7500 cases waiting in the IRS Q, is far easier for the IRS to say no then to accept because an average of anywhere between 20 and 40 hours are spent on accepting the offer in compromise.
If you have an offer in compromise accepted, four signatures are generally required for signature as it goes up and down the chain.
So how do you know if the offer in compromise is right for you. Call for a free initial tax consultation and hear the truth from a true IRS tax debt settlement former agent.
The first place to go is to fill out the IRS pre-qualifier tool for the offer in compromise. Because of so many scrupulous tax companies that have been ripping people off, the IRS wanted to make sure the general public has a tool that they can use to find out if they are prequalified to file the offer in compromise to make sure it is a viable option.
It contains all the necessary information in regard to your income, your expenses and your assets and it predetermined for you whether the offer in compromise is even a viable option for you.
IRS will take a very close look at the liquidity of your assets, your current income, and your monthly expenses before it renders a decision as IRS wants to make sure it collects all the money from you that they can within the 10 year statutory period of time.
One of the questions the agent will want to consider is, can we collect more money over 10 years than accept the current agreement on the table for the IRS offer in compromise.
As a general rule, you will have to give IRS your total liquidity of all your assets before they will even consider the acceptance of an offer in compromise.
IRS on larger dollar cases is a tremendous amount of due diligence.
The IRS has a wealth of information on the various computers they can use to dig and find assets or income.
Why? you may ask is because all offers in compromise are open for public inspections at eight regional offices throughout the United States.
Your offer in compromise must be thoroughly documented which includes all your bank statements for the last six months to a year, all your pay stubs, all your monthly expenses along with certain documentation for assets that have value.
IRS also takes a look at the values of your pensions, your IRA, your business as well.
The offer in compromise is one of the most reviewed documents, it is like going through a mini audit.
Some of the due diligence that IRS will conduct on a larger dollar cases is checking Google, the accurate search engine, Department of Motor Vehicles, real estate records, insurance policies, credit reports, loan applications, insurance policies, and inter-government agency records including those garnered by Homeland security and other such agencies.
Before you contemplate filing the offer in compromise and wasting your money on a company that has promised you they can settle your case for pennies on the dollar, you would be wise to give us a call to have an actual former IRS agent and teaching instructor of the offer in compromise give you the green light.
You should also know if an offer in compromise is not except that you have the right to appeal it and if the appeal is not accepted you can file an offer at a later time.
When you call our office you will speak to true IRS tax experts who knows the system and can tell you what to expect and tell you how to settle for the lowest amount possible.
When you call our office will review every single back tax program available, and generally there’s three the hardship program the payment agreement program and the most popular back tax program the offer in compromise which completely settles your IRS tax debt but you must be a candidate that fits the IRS criteria.
Call us today for a free initial tax consultation, you will hear nothing but the truth from former IRS agents who know and understand the methodologies of the offer in compromise to make sure it is right for you.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 12, 2018 | Tax Help
IRS Hazards of litigation.
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As a general rule you will find the Appellate Division much more flexible.
Many times in the local office you do not know what you’re going to get from the field agent working the case. It is a lot easier many times to convince the appeals officer based on certain common senses. Many times a local office will see things black-and-white and the appeals agent sees things in the gray and are quicker to settle cases.
But keep in mind, you cannot have any frivolous arguments, you must have some sort of case before bringing it forward.
If you work a lot of cases that frequently go to appeals you can start building a reputation of a solid practitioner versus a scammer. It is best generally for your client and for your reputation to send solid work to the appeals office.
A LAYMANS LOOK AT THE HAZARDS PROCESS
I am attempting here to lay out a layman’s look at the hazards of litigation and what the appellate officer will look at as a case comes their way.
As a general rule, the appellate officer receives the entire case from the collection division or the audit division with all the notes and the entire case file.
Generally, the Appellate Division will get involved in the case from the audit or collection division in which the taxpayer is unsatisfied based on the result of the current field agent working the case and asked for a hearing in the appeals division.
The agent will carefully look at the case and then send out their appointment letter. They want to try to understand the case first before the appointment letters go out.
It is critically important for the practitioner of the taxpayer to respect fully and respond to all time dated requests. You do not want to do anything to upset the appeals agent and their timelines in handling of these cases.
Case files sent by the practitioner to appeals should be very organized, well documented and placed in tabs if necessary. Good case appearance is very important so the appellate agent can make their way through the case easily.
IRS management is very time conscious on cases and as a general rule they do not like having overage cases in their inventory and many times both management and the agents are written up because of poor time management.
The appeals division is there to make a lasting final decision before the case could go to Tax Court.
The appeal officer does not want the case to go to court and they do their best to settle the case if in fact it can be settled on a reasonable basis. However,’s there are certain factors that the IRS appellate agent must consider before settlement.
If the case goes the Tax Court the IRS does not want to lose because it can alter future decisions and this can have a devastating effect on future cases going forward. If they lose the case it looks bad on the appellate agent, the supervisors management and the district in which the decision was ruled.
An Example:
The appellate agent looks at the case and based on the facts and circumstances. If feel they have an 8/10 chance of winning the case, many times they can offer an 80% reduction in the total tax. Before the agent sends out a letter offering a reduction, the case is reviewed with their supervisor to make sure this is consistent with the IRS overall goal so it does not affect future cases.
The IRS has certain categories or criteria that they use for the hazards of litigation.
I have put together 11 elements that they use in making their determination about the strength of the weakness of their case. Please remember this is a layman’s view so those reading this blog can understand how the IRS works these hazards of litigation cases.
I have deliberately not gone into any legal detail because this is just a brief overview of hazards.
Hazards of litigation categories
This list contains a majority of factors but not all-encompassing.
1. How would the judge view the facts of this case.
2. How much evidence would this hold inside a courtroom,
3. What is the credibility of the representation and the taxpayer
4. How well is the case been presented to the appeals agent that will be presented in court. Is the case well presented in well representative
5. Can the taxpayer meet the burden of proof effectively to convince the judge
6. If witnesses come into play are they credible and will they testify in such a case, can anything disqualify them
7. Has the taxpayer successfully shifted the burden of proof to IRS
8. Who does the appeals agent based on the aforementioned facts feel the judge will rule in favor of
9. How solid will the presenter of the taxpayers case be
10. Can the evidence of the facts be proven
11. Has tax law already existed in this case
What Does the IRM say about these matters
1. The Appeals mission is to resolve tax controversies, without litigation, on a basis which is fair and impartial to both the Government and the taxpayer and in a manner that will enhance voluntary compliance and public confidence in the integrity and efficiency of the Service.
This is Appeals’ general contribution towards achieving the Service mission. (See IRM 1.1.1, IRS Mission and Basic Organization and IRM 1.2.17, Servicewide Policies and Authorities, Policy Statements for the Appeals Process.) In further support of the Service mission, Appeals may defer action on or decline to settle some cases, under Policy Statement 8–47 (described at IRM 1.2.17.1.6), where:
A. required by other Headquarters Office-issued internal management documents, such as those suspending action on cases or those requiring coordination or control of identified matters with widespread impact; or
B. such action would produce a greater positive effect on voluntary compliance than would be derived from settlement or other action on the case.
3. A fair and impartial resolution is one which reflects on an issue-by-issue basis the probable result in event of litigation, or one which reflects mutual concessions for the purpose of settlement based on relative strength of the opposing positions where there is substantial uncertainty of the result in event of litigation.
4. It is the experience of Appeals that thorough, reasonable, and objective consideration of all elements of a controversy leads, in a large majority of cases, to resolution of the controversy on a basis agreeable to both the taxpayer and the Government.
Agreement is not possible in all cases, however. A taxpayer may not agree with Appeals conclusion as to the probable result in event of litigation, or to the extent of mutual concessions required where there is substantial uncertainty of litigating result, or may prefer to litigate for other reasons.
by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 11, 2018 | Tax Help
As a former IRS agent I was a teaching instructor. I’m a tax expert for the IRS trust fund taxes, appeals, and settlements.
I literally have worked hundreds upon hundreds of IRS trust fund cases. I have been doing this work since 1973 and are familiar with every single angle every single trick every single secret of the IRS trust fund recovery,
IRS goes to some length to determine who was responsible for trust fund taxes.
IRS uses a main form called a 4180 set up fact patterns to find out who is responsible for the trust fund tax. The 4180 can be found on our website on the homepage under forms. This is a critical form that IRS uses to determine the credibility of each person and to ascertain information as to who is responsible for trust fund taxes.
There are many trick questions on the 4180 so I would caution anyone giving those to IRS to be skilled and not only to be truthful but the stay away from the tricky questions.
Besides securing the 4180 which the revenue officer will insist to have a sit down in person interview, IRS will also ask for bank signature cards, copies of resolutions, copies of canceled checks. IRS needs to have proof documents before they can ascertain who is responsible for the trust fund taxes they cannot do it based on the 4180 alone IRS needs proof in case the case goes to Tax Court.
The bottom line for revenue officer seeking who is responsible for trust funds tax is:who has ultimate authority, decision-making, and who had the right to control.
Please keep in mind the revenue officer will be looking at past tax returns for assets, they will be looking at company checks to determine who is receiving extra income and for possible shifting of income or assets to those who would’ve been held responsible. IRS wants to make sure no cash, no income or no assets were placed beyond their reach during the course of business.
IRS has the right to also set up a nominee or an alter ego to responsible persons beside the trust fund tax.
A seasoned revenue officer is very crafty and within a matter of an hour or so easily make a determination as to who is responsible for the trust fund tax. The trust fund tax will always be passed on to those who ultimately were in control.
IRS has the right to assert the trust fund penalty to sometime parties such as secretaries or other persons in the Corporation who had specific rights and duties who really were not in control. These cases are sad but many instances the court rules anyone who was aware that the taxes were not being paid and had the ability to do something about it can and will be held against that person. On those cases you always appeal to the Appellate Division and fight them because ultimately IRS will have a difficult time sustaining those in case the case goes to Tax Court.
If your case goes to the Appellate Division IRS will use what’s called a hazard of litigation to determine if they want to bring the case forward to Tax Court.
The hazard of litigation is IRS making a determination on how much they believe they will win the tax court case. Many times if IRS does not feel they have a clear-cut winner they will settle based on the degree of certainty within the fact pattern of the case they have in front of them.
That is the job of the appellate agent to make that determination.
HINT: I have found in my practice it’s best always to go to appeals because the Appellate Division is a lot more generous than at the local office.
The one thing IRS does not want to lose do is lose in Tax Court because it sets a dangerous precedent for cases going forward.
If you’d like to know more call me for a free initial tax consultation and I will walk you through the exact process based on your situation.
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Other Factors To Consider:
IRS has the right to sell your complete inventory at public auction;
IRS can seize all your accounts receivables;
IRS can hold you personally responsible for this tax;
IRS has the right to lock the doors of your business.
Steps to take to work out an affordable payment plan with the Internal Revenue Service:
Immediately stay current on all payroll tax deposits to show the IRS good faith;
Be prepared to give the IRS a current financial statement;
Make sure your personal tax liabilities are filed and paid;
Have all documentation on the financial statement prepared for the IRS.
If you do not pay your Payroll Taxes IRS can collect them from you individually
To encourage prompt payment of withheld income and employment taxes, including social security taxes, railroad retirement taxes, or collected excise taxes, Congress passed a law that provides for the TFRP.( trust fund recovery penalty )
These payroll taxes are called trust fund taxes because you actually hold the employee’s money in trust until you make a federal tax deposit in that amount.
The TFRP may apply to you if these unpaid trust fund taxes cannot be immediately collected from the business.
The business does not have to have stopped operating in order for the TFRP to be assessed
BE CAREFUL Who can be Responsible for the TFRP
The TFRP may be assessed against any person who:
Is responsible for collecting or paying withheld income and employment taxes, or for paying collected excise taxes, and
Willfully fails to collect or pay them.
A responsible person is a person or group of people who has the duty to perform and the power to direct the collecting, accounting, and paying of trust fund taxes. This person may be:
An officer or an employee of a corporation,
A member or employee of a partnership,
A corporate director or shareholder,
A member of a board of trustees of a nonprofit organization,
Another person with authority and control over funds to direct their disbursement,
Another corporation or third-party payer,
Payroll Service Providers (PSP) ore responsible parties within a PSP
Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) or responsible parties within a PEO, or
Responsible parties within the common law employer (client of PSP/PEO).
For wilfulness to exist, the responsible person:
Must have been, or should have been, aware of the outstanding taxes and either intentionally disregarded the law or was plainly indifferent to its requirements (no evil intent or bad motive is required).
Using available funds to pay other creditors when the business is unable to pay the employment taxes is an indication of willfulness. You will be asked to complete an interview in order to determine the full scope of your duties and responsibilities.
Responsibility is based on whether an individual exercised independent judgment with respect to the financial affairs of the business.
An employee is not a responsible person if the employee’s function was solely to pay the bills as directed by a superior, rather than to determine which creditors would or would not be paid.
Figuring the Trust Fund Amount
The amount of the penalty is equal to the unpaid balance of the trust fund tax. The penalty is computed based on:
The unpaid income taxes withheld, plus
The employee’s portion of the withheld FICA taxes. For collected taxes, the penalty is based on the unpaid amount of collected excise taxes.
Assessing the TFRP. If the IRS determines that you are a responsible person, we will provide you a letter stating that we plan to assess the TFRP against you. You have 60 days (75 days if this letter is addressed to you outside the United States) from the date of this letter to appeal our proposal.
The letter will explain your appeal rights. Refer to Publication 5, Your Appeal Rights and How to Prepare a Protest if You Don’t Agree (PDF), for a clear outline of the appeals process.
If you do not respond to our letter, we will assess the penalty against you and send you a Notice and Demand for Payment.
Once we assert the penalty, the IRS can take collection action against your personal assets. For instance, we can file a federal tax lien or take levy or seizure action.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 10, 2018 | Tax Help
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As a former IRS agent I literally issued thousands of IRS bank and wage garnishment levy notices therefore I know the system and the methodologies inside and out to get immediate releases of the wage garnishment and bank levies there is a very specific process.
I have signed so many bank and wage garnishment levies that felt many times like my hand would fall off. Some days I issued 50 notices to levy. However, now I’m on your side and I can stop the process.
Not only can we get your IRS wage garnishment or bank levy release we can settle your case at the same time.
One call to our office and you will understand the process of how to get an immediate release of a wage or bank levy garnishment.
It is all a matter of knowing the system.
As a former IRS agent and teaching instructor many taxpayers receive a nasty gram from Internal Revenue Service, they find out that the IRS has either sent out a tax levy
There is never a good time but it always seems to happen at the worst times, always.
The best thing you could possibly do is talk to a professional tax firm that can go over the various options that you have.
It is important that you understand the system and to know that a bank levy garnishment or a wage garnishment is not going to go away until Internal Revenue Service is contacted.
IRS sent the bank levy or the wage garnishment levy because taxpayers have failed to contact them. Sadly, many taxpayers have never received prior bills or notices because they moved and the notices never found their way to be opened.
Before IRS may issue a bank levy is required to send out the following notices. There are absolutely no exceptions.
IRS sends out a series of 4 to 6 letters depending on the case, the dollar amount, the type of delinquency and have formally requested demand for payment on the back taxes.
If the Internal Revenue Service received no correspondence or no call the Internal Revenue Service through their computerized system will issue a bank levy or wage garnishment notice.
IRS cannot levy until it sends out required notices, they are as follows:
Required Notices for IRS :
Before property can be levied, the taxpayer must be given a,
• Notice and demand,
• Notice of intent to levy, and
• Notice of a right to a Collection Due Process (CDP) hearing
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After these notices have been sent out to the IRS computerized system that allows IRS to take the next step to formally issue a bank levy or wage garnishment notice.
The Internal Revenue Service keeps all W-2s, 1099s, and all third-party income sources on a computer in which they draw upon to issue IRS bank levies or wage garnishments. The Internal Revenue Service keeps his income source list for six years.
So, now the ball is put in your court, you are not going to receive another paycheck and IRS has just frozen your bank account for 21 days so what is the next step.
The Internal Revenue Service will be waiting for you to contact them and give them information so they can literally close your case off the IRS enforcement computer.
What IRS is waiting before they can release a bank or wage garnishment:
Please keep in mind that you can get an IRS wage or bank levy garnishment released usually within 24 hours of contact the Internal Revenue Service with all required documentation. You must know the system, as you know snow the phone numbers to call, and it helps if you know the exact time the call the Internal Revenue Service. Also very important you must keep a fax number to let IRS know who the releases to be sent to.
The Internal Revenue Service does not wish to take your money from a bank account work take your wages it only does so because taxpayers have not complied with federal and government regulations. It is used as a last resort and only because taxpayers have failed to contact the IRS because of the tax debt.
The IRS has certain procedures through their internal revenue manual that dictates what the next step will be systems before they will release a bank or wage garnishment notice.
They are as follows:
1.IRS will completely review your current financial statement,
2.IRS knows all your tax returns are filed, and after this is done,
3. IRS is willing to close your case off of the IRS enforcement computer and issue a notice of release of the wage or bank levy garnishment.
What You Should Do NOW:
It is in your best interest to contact a professional tax firm to set up a current tax strategy and exit strategy and to develop a plan to get your levy and wage garnishment immediate released.
The Internal Revenue Service will review your financial statement on form 433 a or 433F before they will make a determination on your case. It is their primary document they use to handle all open IRS collection cases.
The financial statement is the key. That is the single most important document that IRS looking for.
The filling out, the completion, and the sending out to Internal Revenue Service is the key to not only getting an immediate release of a bank levy or wage garnishment notice but settling and closing your case.
The Internal Revenue Service will make sure all documentation is received to make sure the correctness and accuracy of the financial statement.
IRS will also require for verification:
1. The last 3 to 6 months bank statements,
2 copies of pay stubs,
3. copies of all bills for the last 3 to 6 months, and,
4. more importantly they will evaluate your current living expenses to that against the national, regional and local standards.
IRS will evaluate your house and utility expenses, your car expenses, your medical expenses, and any monthly bills that you have.
All bills in expenses must be within the IRS current standards to be acceptable to the Internal Revenue Service.
The bottom line, IRS will review your current financial statement and usually make one of three determinations on how they will close your case off the enforcement computer and at the same time issue a release of bank levy or a wage garnishment notice.
How IRS may close Your case:
Upon IRS receiving all the documentation on the financial statement IRS may determine to put you in:
1. a currently non-collectible hardship status,
2. ask you to enter into a monthly installment payment or,
3. maybe encourage you to file an offer in compromise because you meet certain qualifications to settle your tax debt to the offer in compromise program.
Call us today for a free initial tax consultation we will walk you through the process of getting an immediate release on your wage or bank levy garnishment. Please come by to visit our offices, call us by Skype, or call us for initial free phone consultation.
As a general within 24 hours of receiving your current financial statement we can get an IRS wage or bank levy garnishment released immediately.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 3, 2018 | Tax Help
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We are a Christian tax firm that specializes in the offer in compromise in the various ways to settle your back IRS or State tax debt.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 11:14
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
I am a former IRS agent and teaching instructor with the Internal Revenue Service.
When I was employed by the Internal Revenue Service I work the offer in compromise program. there are three general programs to settle your tax debt, the offer in compromise, the payment agreement and the hardship program but before IRS accepts any of these programs you must have all your tax returns filed and up-to-date.
We can prepare all back tax returns with or without records get them on the IRS computer and settle your tax debt all at the same time.
As a result, we know all the inside secrets the methodologies and all the back tax programs to settle back taxes available.
Not only did I accept and reject offers in compromise, I was also a teaching instructor at the service center to help qualified revenue officers decide which offers to accept and reject.
Given the above information, I can tell you I am a true expert for the IRS offer in compromise and I wish to explain to you whether an offer in compromise is a viable option for you.
Due to social media, marketing and advertising the assumption by the general public is that IRS can settle tax debt for pennies on the dollar.
Let me first let you know that IRS does accept offers in compromise and as a matter of fact last year approximately 32,000 offers in compromise were accepted out of the 78,000 that were filed.
That number varies from year to year but the percentages usually remain the same of acceptability.
The average settlement was $9500 per case but remember that is just an average in not everybody can settle their tax debt for $9500.
There is much information you need to know before you go off filing an offer of compromise and giving your money to some firm to try to pull off some amazing trick because you have been sold a bill of goods and bought in to some marketing ploy and they’ve convinced you are a settlement candidate.
The IRS Process:
It first starts with the review of your personal financial statement which is found on the 433 OIC.
When the offer in compromise gets sent in to the Internal Revenue Service it is met with the reviewer that make sure that you are truly qualified candidate for the offer in compromise program.
That reviewer checks the completed form to make sure it is a valid agreement. The offer in compromise is a legal document between you and the Internal Revenue Service.
If IRS were to accept the offer and the next day you win the lottery the accepted offer still stands.
Also reviewer make sure that all the documentation is attached so that the revenue officer who will work your offer in compromise can move forward.
Approximately one-third of all offers in compromise are sent back to the taxpayer because the offers are not filled out correctly or the appropriate documentation is not attached.
IRS will check to make sure all your tax returns are current and filed on the IRS system.It is critically important you know that you must have all tax returns filed before IRS will process your offer.
You should know that the Internal Revenue Service rejects an offer before it accepts an offer. one of the basic rules is that the revenue officer is lazy and is easier to mark rejected then they go through all the work of accepting an offer in compromise.
I should know this is a former instructor of the offer in compromise I see many revenue officers simply send offers back because some of the eyes were not dotted in the T’s were not crossed.
Due to the volume of cases the IRS has, which is over 7500 cases waiting in the IRS Q, is far easier for the IRS to say no then to accept because an average of anywhere between 20 and 40 hours are spent on accepting the offer in compromise.
If you have an offer in compromise accepted, four signatures are generally required for signature as it goes up and down the chain.
So how do you know if the offer in compromise is right for you. Call for a free initial tax consultation and hear the truth from a true IRS tax debt settlement former agent.
The first place to go is to fill out the IRS pre-qualifier tool for the offer in compromise. Because of so many scrupulous tax companies that have been ripping people off, the IRS wanted to make sure the general public has a tool that they can use to find out if they are prequalified to file the offer in compromise to make sure it is a viable option.
It contains all the necessary information in regard to your income, your expenses and your assets and it predetermined for you whether the offer in compromise is even a viable option for you.
IRS will take a very close look at the liquidity of your assets, your current income, and your monthly expenses before it renders a decision as IRS wants to make sure it collects all the money from you that they can within the 10 year statutory period of time.
One of the questions the agent will want to consider is, can we collect more money over 10 years than accept the current agreement on the table for the IRS offer in compromise.
As a general rule, you will have to give IRS your total liquidity of all your assets before they will even consider the acceptance of an offer in compromise.
IRS on larger dollar cases is a tremendous amount of due diligence.
The IRS has a wealth of information on the various computers they can use to dig and find assets or income.
Why? you may ask is because all offers in compromise are open for public inspections at eight regional offices throughout the United States.
Your offer in compromise must be thoroughly documented which includes all your bank statements for the last six months to a year, all your pay stubs, all your monthly expenses along with certain documentation for assets that have value.
IRS also takes a look at the values of your pensions, your IRA, your business as well.
The offer in compromise is one of the most reviewed documents, it is like going through a mini audit.
Some of the due diligence that IRS will conduct on a larger dollar cases is checking Google, the accurate search engine, Department of Motor Vehicles, real estate records, insurance policies, credit reports, loan applications, insurance policies, and inter-government agency records including those garnered by Homeland security and other such agencies.
Before you contemplate filing the offer in compromise and wasting your money on a company that has promised you they can settle your case for pennies on the dollar, you would be wise to give us a call to have an actual former IRS agent and teaching instructor of the offer in compromise give you the green light.
You should also know if an offer in compromise is not except that you have the right to appeal it and if the appeal is not accepted you can file an offer at a later time.
When you call our office you will speak to true IRS tax experts who knows the system and can tell you what to expect and tell you how to settle for the lowest amount possible.
When you call our office will review every single back tax program available, and generally there’s three the hardship program the payment agreement program and the most popular back tax program the offer in compromise which completely settles your IRS tax debt but you must be a candidate that fits the IRS criteria.
Call us today for a free initial tax consultation, you will hear nothing but the truth from former IRS agents who know and understand the methodologies of the offer in compromise to make sure it is right for you.
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