What is an IRS levy?
If you are reading this article, chances are you have lately been notified by the IRS that you are about to receive an IRS charge on your bank accounts. An IRS tariff is the final straw for the IRS when it comes to collecting back taxes. It is a tool that will freeze your resources so that the IRS can remove as much money from your bank accounts as they want to pay off what they say you owe. generally speaking, it is only used when every other appearance of payment has fallen through. There are, nonetheless, a few ways to have this tax disconnected.
First, call the IRS and ask if you qualify for a payment research. It could be that they have offered you a payment preparation in the past and you either discarded their recommend or you ignored it, causing things to have ended up where they are right now. A payment research will immediately lift the charge on your accounts so that you have access to your checking and savings; still, the IRS will anticipate your first payment right away and another one month later. One scheme that many people employ is to simply see eye to eye to a payment training so that they can have the tariff lifted and then they will have a bit more time to think about how they are going to handle their debt over the long term.
If that option simply doesn’t work for you, you can relate for what is branded as an put forward in compromise. These offers are extremely hard to come by since they permit you to pay less, sometimes appreciably less, than what you owe. There are three main ways to qualify for an suggest in compromise. The first, and the most common, is to exhibit a pecuniary need. If you can verify that having your balance sheet frozen will impede your ability to pay medical bills, child sustain or rent/mortgage, you may be able to have the toll lifted or changed in some way. Along the same lines, if you can show that you simply don’t have the income or the possessions to pay your debt by the due date, you may also qualify for a reduction in your total tax bill and a removal of the IRS rates. The second system is to demonstate that your tax bill really isn’t yours after all. If you can confirm that a typo on your variety has landed you in this mess, then you may qualify to have some or even all of your debt disconnected.
One final system that many people use to remove such levies is to simply propose a single lump sum payment that covers most of your debt, but not all of it. If the IRS finds that this is an reasonable way out, they can wipe away the rest of your debt, as well as any levies that happen to be lying around. The key here is to keep the avenues of communication open so that you are always making positive headway.
Darrin T. Mish is a veteran, nationally recognized tax attorney who has focused on providing IRS help to taxpayers for over a decade. He regularly travels the country training other attorneys, CPAs and enrolled agents on how to handle their toughest cases with the IRS. He is highly ranked among the top attorneys in the country, with an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a perfect 10 on Avvo.com. Martindale-Hubbell has also honored him with a listing in their Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He is a member of the American Society of IRS Problem Solvers and the Tax Freedom Institute. With clients on every continent but Antarctica, he has what it takes to solve your IRS problems no matter where you live in the world. If you would like more information about his practice and how he can help you, please call his office at (813) 229-7100 or toll free at 1-888-GET-MISH.